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Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe

Posted by timothy on 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."

6 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What ? by CarpetShark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Contingency plan?

    Yes, chain contingency actually. Well spotted.

  2. MAFFIA's new plan by homes32 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Stage police "raids" or simple questioning.
    2. Submit slashdot story.
    3. Sit back and watch the slashdot effect as TPB's own users overload the site and take it down.
    4 ?????
    5. PROFIT!

  3. Re:Why by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but if rapists put up therapistbay.org and

    You mipselled wikileaks.org (which incidentally is hosted on the same ISP... o the irony...)

  4. Re:hey, close down craigslist by timbo234 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    which shows you the ambivalency with which modern society views stuff like piracy or prostitution: they are on the cusp of acceptability.

    More than on the cusp, in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and some states of Australia for example, prostitution is a legal, regulated industry.

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  5. Re:Something Freenet-like this way comes? by Defenestrar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait?

    A little culture and reading would have illuminated the irony and kept me from being piqued enough to overuse italics.

    Meh - you can't mod them all.

  6. Re:Something Freenet-like this way comes? by Wocka_Wocka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think the villagers in The Village even had access to a computer. Nice try though.