Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again

o_ferguson writes: TorrentFreak is reporting that police in Sweden carried out a raid in Stockholm today, seizing servers, computers, and other equipment. At the same time The Pirate Bay and several other torrent-related sites disappeared offline. Although no official statement has been made, TF sources confirm action against TPB. This is not the first time that this has happened.

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...and here we go again

[torkus]

Site down, random shuffle, site comes back. I wonder if they'll find someone else to arrest this time around.

Though I thought they finally got smart and started hosting elsewhere?

Re:Your tax dollars at work

[Anonymous Coward]

Bingo! Sony is presently freaking the fuck out. Torrents are the primary vehicle for the dozens of gigs of their leaked data floating around, and TPB is the masses' first (if not only) source for torrents. The timing here is no coincidence.

Re:Are there any good alternatives?

[El_Muerte_TDS]

iTunes does not work on my 10 month old Panasonic "Smart" TV, or Linux based HTPC, or Sony PS3. Amazon only recently started selling ebooks here, nothing else. Netflix is great though, now if they can finally convince content providers to license them more content.
So what are these alternatives?

Why TPB and not the banks?

[jenningsthecat]

Banks in EVERY jurisdiction carry out transactions with and pay interest on money deposited by criminals of various stripes, from tax evaders to mobsters to drug lords to terrorists. And in many cases the banksters know the provenance of those funds, and simply don't care, 'cause business is business after all. Not to mention the thefts the banks themselves commit, which are only not considered illegal via the legal legerdemain of calling them 'service fees'. So why do governments, (and by extension, their corporate masters), have such a hate on for the TPB? Yeah, I know, it's a rhetorical question, but I had to ask it.

So Pirate Bay is raided and shut down, and its founders thrown in prison, while bank CEO's are allowed to conduct business freely and in full daylight with impunity. It seems that a lot of somebodies in a lot of places consider the facilitation of file sharing a more heinous crime than the facilitation of theft, murder, gun running, etc. Gee, that disconnect wouldn't have anything at all to do with the profits of big corporations, would it?