Pirate Bay Raid Investigation Finished

A Pirate writes "The Swedish Ombudsmen of Justice (JO) has finished the investigation of the Pirate Bay raid where close to 200 servers were confiscated. Just a fragment of these were actually Pirate Bay's and this led to both the police and prosecutor being charged with official misconduct, but the judges dropped the cases. In the report published by the JO he concludes that the judges were right, but there is also some very interesting information about how the MPA, IFPI and the American embassy tried to push the Swedish Minister of Justice and Secretary of State into influencing the police and the prosecutor to act upon The Pirate Bay."

Comments

What did you expect?

[Infinityis]

Of course they dropped the case. Now that the Pirate Bay servers operate out of North Korea, it's out of Swedish jurisdiction. Plus, they probably don't want to provoke the wrath of Kim "I've got nukes!" Jong-Il...

Re:What did you expect?

[Anne Thwacks]

Thus proving the old pirate saying "Its an Il Jong that blows no-one into pieces!" -Arrgh Jim, Lad

Re:Hey Swödige ! Act up !!

[Eudial]

You are tall, well-fed, healthy people in a free land. Are you going to let yourselves be herded by shit that does the bidding of Mafiaa ?

Why yes, we are. It's a long Swedish tradition to be herded by idiots.

If the 10 Commandments were a "Living Document"...

[mi]

If the Ten Commandments were a "living document" (as some claim, US Constitution ought to be), it would've been found to contain the "Thou shall not violate copyrights" by now...

Synzronvg zl nff...

Re:Good.

[Overzeetop]

and training them to go for the wallet.

I thought that was an innate ability of all lawyers. Attacking the govenernment with little chance of seeing hard cash - now that would take some real training. If you could do that and manage to train them to ignore the money in your wallet - now that would be quite a trick!

Re:There is a precedent for US internet meddling

[Anonymous Coward]

The US does not control the internet and hopefully as time goes by legal jurisdictions around the world will rule against heavy handed American tactics.

Oh but they are trying. If they gain control of the root DNS servers they are going to fucking ruin the Internet as we know it.

In response to the pressure...

[pulse2600]

...the Swedish Minister of Justice was quoted as saying "BORK!!!!" "BORK BORK BORK BORK BORK!!!!", made a rather obscene hand gesture, and walked away.

Re:Sidenote

[bwcarty]

They've also given us the ever useful "bork, bork, bork!"

Re:Looks like the man won

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah the TPB is such a hot potato nobody will touch it now. The website is not available at thepiratebay.org at all.

Re:Good.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey...no complaints about the sidetrack here! This is /., and your sidetrack is PORN to us!

Re:Hey Swödige ! Act up !!

[Andre_PC]

I actually think this is a worldwide trend.

And now for TPB's reaction

[ravenspear]

Check out their current PTR record.

dig thepiratebay.org
> 83.140.176.146
dig -x 83.140.176.146
> IN PTR hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepirate bay.org.

Re:Hey Swödige ! Act up !!

[The Angry Mick]

I wish the RIAA would agree to resolve their cases the same way the old Swedish kings used to settle their wars:

1. RIAA rows out into the middle of a fjord in a boat filled with all of their money.
2. Defendant rows out in a boat filled with all his money.
3. Both sides bash each other about the head with large cudgels.
4. Boats sink due to critical imbalance.
5. Money sinks to bottom of fjord, never to be seen again.

Defendant, goes home, gets a job and returns to a steady bill payer's lifestyle.

The RIAA . . . well . . .

Nevermind. I really don't care what happens to them.

Re:There is a difference between...

[Woldry]

Its not like there is one master brain that controls all of those groups and people.

Oh yes I do... I mean ... there is...