Police Planning New Raid On The Pirate Bay

An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak reports that Swedish authorities are gearing up for another raid on the servers of The Pirate Bay. The site was raided once before, in 2006, and the evidence gathered at that time was sufficient to convict its founders. 'The authorities have obtained warrants to snoop around in sensitive places and two known anti-piracy prosecutors, Frederick Ingblad and Henrik Rasmusson, are said to be involved. Employing a little psychological warfare aimed at putting the investigators off-balance, the Pirate Bay team has chosen to make the news public to make the authorities aware that they are not the only ones being watched.'"

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Isn't this getting a little silly?

[msobkow]

Now a "news" article essentially amounts to "someone posted a message about someone telling them that someone else said they'd..."

Are you serious? That chain of "evidence" is worse than most small town gossip!

And even if it's true -- so what? As convenient as it is, TPB is hardly the only torrent site in the world...

Re:Isn't this getting a little silly?

[TheGratefulNet]

It's getting to the point where "respect for the law" is the exclusive domain of those who are ruled and not at all for the rulers.

I'm an old and cranky man. but I see no country that exhibits freedom the way we all THOUGHT it would be.

lies and lies. freedom is a thing that exists for the rich and powerful.

the sooner we all wake up and see the evil in ALL our governments, the sooner we'll be able to fix this world wide problem.

its not US, its not england, its not sweden, its not australia. its EVERY place that has humans running things. humans make a nice cozy place for themselves and ensure that things are good for the ruling class and less good for those who are not part of this.

why is this ever thought of as nationalistic? again, every country is run by people and people have flaws in their nature that lets 'power corrupt'. we've known this forever, haven't we?

stop believing the propaganda that your country is somehow more free or just than some other. its not true. you only think its true due to brainwashing and the 'us vs them' mentality that countries LOVE to instill in its people.

respect for law means nothing. if you have the money, you can make laws or side-step them. IN EVERY COUNTRY.

Re:Isn't this getting a little silly?

[number11]

The story behind the first raid was pretty ugly. The raid was not going to happen at first because the police saw that no law was being broken by the site or its operators. Politics somehow overruled the law and the raid occurred. The stuff taken was returned and brought back online within a couple of days because it was all quite illegal. It was the US government's influence which was used to push the Swedish government to step beyond its own laws. And we already know who influences the US government to make them push its influence onto other sovereign nations.

Which, parenthetically, shows why Julian Assange is so unenthusiastic about being extradited back to Sweden.

Re:could you imagine how useful it would be if the

[Anonymous Coward]

After consultation with several linguistic experts, I believe the closest English translation would be:

"I am fucking retarded"

It should be noted though that Retard is difficult to properly translate in it's written form, as it has only 3 known phrases, all of which are spelled identically, which is to say all of which are spelled with any random combination of characters. As such, it's entirely possible the OP was actually trying to say:

"I've done far far too many drugs"

or

"I've stopped taking my medication"

Re:So let's do something about it.

[Lumpy]

Actually you use that time to find out how to emigrate to a country that has reaj jobs. Because here in the USA, there are no jobs that pay enough to afford paying for software, music, movies, etc...

Re:So let's do something about it.

[icebraining]

For the software music and movies... Do you really need those? They sound like frivolousness entertainment to me.

Do you really need to post here?

Entertainment made my people who work to get paid for their effort. If you cannot afford it... Go without.

Why? Absolutely no one benefits from you going without instead of downloading.

They monitor the Piracy off their stuff, if they find that it is heavily pirated then they know people like the product, and they find value with it...

You are using Slashdot, so you clearly find value in it. But would you pay $150/month to use Slashdot? If not, why not?

Finding value does NOT mean that 1) it's worth to the person whatever the seller is asking for it, 2) the person can afford it.

Re:Text for le blocked

[cpu6502]

The fire in a theater argument is actually flawed. It was part of the Supreme Court's desire to keep President Wilson happy because the president wanted to lock-up and silence the anti-war protestors and writers (also suffragettes). i.e. They gave the president permission to trample the first amendment.

The Court was wrong. The anti-war people of the time were equivalent to a person standing OUTSIDE a theater and warning people, "Don't go or else you risk dying. It's dangerous." Which is protected speech and a perfectly valid thing to do.

Just as the Supreme Court was wrong to say segregation was legal, the court was wrong to allow President Wilson to silence the anti-war critics and lock them in jail. Or to apply the invalid fire-in-a-theater argument to justify it.