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Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe
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."
They were just investigating all the torrent/Wikileaks mirrors on rape and molestation charges.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
A comment on TFA says it came back up within 2 minutes.
Contingency plan?
Reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated.
Instead of dupes, ./ are now reporting the future. The extra load on the servers from people checking if it's up or not will take it down.
And just think of how outdated it will be the next time it comes through.
at the request of who? Last I checked, Belgium didn't even have a government!
I guess it has been about 2 years since we've had a stable government and that's also about the time it takes for a request to get processed by the bureaucrats here in my experience.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Instead of dupes, ./ are now reporting the future
My current directory is reporting the future?! I can't believe it! My terminal just simply started spitting out all sorts of useful advice above events that haven't happened yet. I performed the pwd command to figure out which magical directory I had entered, but then my computer imploded! I didn't have a chance to copy the terminal output to my USB drive. Now I'll never be able to know what happens in the future!
Like the recent wikileaks attack, we will soon have a few rounds of "news" stories about how The Pirate Bay supports terrorism and child pornography and how the principle people behind The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Party are really horrible people, probably rapists or child molesters.
Huh? Did I miss something? When and how was Wikileaks attacked?
I suppose I also missed the advent of a unified world government, last I checked the governments of the world were still functioning like a severely autistic bowling team with bits of their brains removed at random. People who believe in some form of "new world order" have much more faith in humanity than I, I have a hard time even beleiving that 10 people can pull something off without a maximum degree of incompetence, and the potential level of incompetence goes up exponentially with every added member. By my reckoning, if you got every government in the world together, they couldn't even make toast without razing a rain-forest, starting a small nuclear war, and eventually burning the toast.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey