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."

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[Pfhorrest]

And because this is usually handled by the ISP itself (they just change which DNS server their servers have to ask), the users won't even notice the change.

And this is where your otherwise pretty picture breaks down, for us Americans at least. All the broadband ISPs here are major telecom conglomerates who are happily in bed with the nice governments who so generously give them legally enforced local monopolies, lots of public funding to expand their networks, and the use of eminent domain to run their lines. Why would those ISPs ever use any other root DNS but the one that Washington tells them to? And if the government did fuck with the root DNS, and the ISPs played along and didn't care, why would any Joe Average User switch away from their two nice, fast broadband options to the only remaining choice - slow-ass dialup?