Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 7, 2010 @01:00AM from the knock-knock-joke dept.

Stoobalou contributes a link to this story at Thinq.co.uk, from which he excerpts: "Torrent-tracking site The Pirate Bay is currently unavailable as reports come in of co-ordinated police raids against file sharers across Europe. Police in up to 14 countries carried out raids against suspected file-sharing servers this morning. According to file-sharing news site TorrentFreak, the bulk of police action seems to have taken place in Sweden. Swedish Internet service provider ISP, which hosts both The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, earlier denied rumours of a police raid, saying that officers had visited them to ask questions over two suspect IP addresses, and that no computers or other goods had been seized."

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Re:Something Freenet-like this way comes? by Defenestrar · 2010-09-07 01:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Encryption means you have something to hide. Probably a description of what nasty thing you saw in the woodshed.
Re:Why by Dunbal · 2010-09-07 03:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Which part of "AS OPPOSED TO" was so difficult to understand? You must be a reporter. Nay, a lawyer.

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Re:What ? by nomadic · 2010-09-07 06:03 · Score: 1, Flamebait

But filesharing will continue, because it's still about the best marketing tool the entertainment industry has.

Right, because when people get something for free consistently, they tend to spontaneously decide to pay for that thing.