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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.'"
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...
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Unfortunately, the Onion (America's Finest News Source) has been prevented from registering a TLD. Sources suggest their rejection by ICANN was a real tear-jerker.
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Since the piratebay IPs are blocked by my ISP these days (and redirect me to http://www.xs4all.nl/geblokkeerd/ ) I have to use a proxy to get around it.
Here's a link for those of you in the same boat: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepiratebay.se/blog/209
booo. too many layers to this joke!
Works perfectly! I'm happy to say :)
I don't remember when they added support but it must be about a year by now. I pretty much only use magnet links with rtorrent. I don't know exactly which version it is (it came with Debian) but I can find out if you like?
Strange you should say that, works fine for me.
rtorrent-0.8.9/libtorrent-0.12.9
It took them a while to add it, but it is there. (No, this wasn't compiled with a patch, like you had to do early on...)
Help with the backup. You can own the entire contents of TPB by downloading just 90MB of magnet links in one torrent here: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7016365/The_whole_Pirate_Bay_magnet_archive
Bog off ya bastids. I uploaded some of my own work there last week.
Hopefully they will leave it there.
I put my books on Amazon, Smashwords, Demonoid, ISOHunt and Pirate Bay. Search for 'Michael Cargill'
I take it you're onionspired, then?
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More than half a decade after Swedish police officers first raided The Pirate Bay, there is talk that a second police raid against the world’s most famous torrent site is in the planning. The Pirate Bay team has learned that local authorities have acquired warrants to take action against the site, and expect that both servers and the new
In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time – The Pirate Bay’s servers.
The raid eventually led to the conviction of four people connected to The Pirate Bay, but the site itself remained online.
Today, the Pirate Bay team has informed TorrentFreak that a second raid is being prepared by the Swedish authorities. The site’s operators, who are well-connected in multiple ways, learned that a team of Swedish investigators is gearing up to move against the site in the future. The suspicions were also made public by The Pirate Bay a few minutes ago. “The Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010. Information has been leaked to us every now and then by multiple sources, almost on a regular basis. It’s an interesting read,” the Pirate Bay crew notes. “We can certainly understand why WikiLeaks wished to be hosted in Sweden, since so much data leaks there. The reason that we get the leaks is usually that the whistleblowers do not agree with what is going on. Something that the governments should have in mind – even your own people do not agree.” The Pirate Bay team confirmed to TorrentFreak that the announcement is no prank. 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. According to The Pirate Bay team they aren’t doing anything illegal, but nonetheless they noticed that the investigation intensified after the site’s recent move to a .SE domain. “Since our recent move to a .SE domain the investigation has been cranked up a notch. We think that the investigation is interesting considering nothing that TPB does is illegal,” they say. “Rather we find it interesting that a country like Sweden is being so abused by lobbyists and that this can be kept up. They’re using scare tactics, putting pressure on the wrong people, like providers and users. All out of fear from the big country in the west, and with an admiration for their big fancy wallets.” Behind the scenes The Pirate Bay team is working hard to ensure that the site will remain online in the event that servers, domain names and Internet routes are cut off. In this regard The Pirate Bay has learned a valuable lesson from its former operators. Those who are aware of the site’s history know that without a few essential keystrokes in May 2006, The Pirate Bay may not have been here today. When Pirate Bay founder TiAMO heard that something was amiss, he decided to make a full backup of the site before heading off to the datacenter, where he was greeted by dozens of police officers.
TiAMO’s decision to start a backup of the site is probably the most pivotal moment in the site’s history. Because of this backup the Pirate Bay team were able to resurrect the site within three days. If there hadn’t have been a recent backup, things may have turned out quite differently. It was a close call at the time, and a defining moment in the history of the site. The dete
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
I was under the impression that the site was hosted by the pirate party as a function of office now and thus gained immunity to prosecution in Sweden?
http://wiki.rtorrent.org/MagnetUri should help.
Some apps are WYSIWYG. Some others are WYSIWTF.
Perhaps try adding that to your hosts file?
Tor should also help you bypass censorship.
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This whole thread is a real tear-jerker.
I got here through a series of tubes
I've never really used magnet links that much so there's bound to be some issues, however due to the TPB change I'll be looking closer at that code in the near future. There's seems to be some magnet links that aren't supported properly...
In any case please do realize that there's no 'they' in rtorrent, at the best I had one guy sending me patches for DHT support and various other stuff. Pretty much a one man project, so I'll mainly be focusing on stuff certain users pay me to implement.
The Pirate Bay's days are numbered. With the move to magnet links, their entire "collection" takes about 100MB. That is small enough that every user can have a copy that slowly updates between connected users. For an up and coming implementation of this, see Tribler.
If all p2p switched to a similar method, the only targets for authorities would be IP addresses in the swarm. Right now that rarely happens, but it could very easily become commonplace if there are no big targets left.
Since my programming skills are definitely inadequate, I just donated $20 to you instead.
Thank you for a great piece of software, screen+rtorrent will never be beat, as far as I'm concerned.
Eat the rich.
The latest version (to be released soon) will be much more aggressive at contacting trackers, so the dead tracker issue is gone.
Your comment just got you on the list mister.
the first rule of the Terrorist or SOPA/ACTA/MPAA watch list is you dont talk about the Terrorist or SOPA/ACTA/MPAA watch list!
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It depends. A magnet link can store a LOT of information - it can be anywhere from a hash to a complete torrent file in a link. Or it can be a redirect to a different site hosting the torrent file.
It's actually important to know the difference because one requires the use of DHT, while the others simply point the torrent client elsewhere to fetch the torrent file.
Heck, TPB stopped their trackers years ago - but that didn't mean they went completely DHT - they just used a lot of other trackers out there
All TPB's doing is really turning themselves into a google for torrents.
Without getting into the semantics of copyright versus theft, the first amendment does not specify only political speech is free.
Its very very broad.
And before you drag out the old saw about "fire in a crowded theater", those types of exceptions are generally for imminent danger to the public.
The exception was not carved out for "to protect commercial interests".
If you don't like the 1st amendment, try to get it changed.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
The police are panning a new RAID on the pirate bay? Cool! How many TB will they be adding?
Anyone who has played Sierra's Police Quest could tell you that is a PR-24 Nightstick ;)
Does the "PR" stand for "Public Relations"?
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
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.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
It seems to me that a taser could be defeated with a tinfoil undershirt, or conductive foam.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I though a "nightstick" was... never mind.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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I've added flattr to my email and github account.
Haven't tested it nor do I really have much exposure to that avenue of donations.
So you want to not commit the crime of copyright infringement and instead go for the trio :
1) purposefully deceiving law enforcement
2) accessory to copyright infringement (same as linking to copyrighted content)
3) fraud (towards other downloaders, and copyright owners, granted not much chance of enforcement here)
And of course, you want to generally be a dickhead, breaking the bittorrent protocol, sabotaging others for your own advantage. And of course, this might be a viable strategy for a few people, but the more people do this, the less viable it becomes. Of course, large amounts of people helping is just what bittorrent depends on.
You might lose a bit of popularity ...