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Pirate Bay Raid Investigation Finished

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the casting-a-wide-net dept.

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."

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  1. What did you expect? by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  2. Re:Good. by Overzeetop · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
  3. And now for TPB's reaction by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.
  4. Re:Hey Swödige ! Act up !! by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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    I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.