Police Raid on thepiratebay.org ISP

**gunot** · 05-31-2006

The pirate bay is now up and runing and its messing around with the swedish ploice.. if you go to thepiratebay.org you can se it says the police bay

and there main icon has a hollywod sign nere it...

read www.thepiratebay.org for more info

More info:

ThePirateBay.org Raided - Servers Seized
May 31, 2006
Thomas Mennecke

In their native Sweden, ThePirateBay.org enjoyed a level of immunity from copyright prosecution rarely seen in the file-sharing world. Often defiant in the face of those wishing to enforce their intellectual property rights, ThePirateBay.org would go on to become one of the premier BitTorrent indexing and tracking sites.

As one of the largest trackers, ThePirateBay.org largely replaced the search engine SuprNova.org. SuprNova.org met its demise in late 2004, when it was under pressure from the entertainment industry to shut it operation down. Conversely, such pressure has been ineffective against ThePiratebay.org.

When such political pressure fails, the use of force is typically the next course of action. In a move that many thought would never come, Slyck.com learned this morning that ThePirateBay.org was raided by Swedish police.

“…The police right now is taking all of our servers, to check if there is a crime there or not (they are actually not sure),” ThePirateBay.org spokesperson “brokep” told Slyck.com.

The seizure of ThePirateBay.org’s entire server farm will guarantee this BitTorrent tracker will remain offline until the police complete their investigation. The uncertainty on the part of the police may stem from the fact ThePirateBay.org's servers only host .torrent files, not actual copyrighted material. As a tracker, ThePirateBay.org's function is to index .torrent files and to direct BitTorrent traffic and maintain the swarm (uploads and downloads.) The downloaded .torrent file contains all the necessary information to locate and download the queried file. The legality of indirectly linking to copyrighted material has yet to be tested by Swedish courts.

Whether this will keep ThePirateBay.org offline indefinitely is another matter.

“We are not sure when it will return, but we are moving it to another country if necessary,” brokep said.

According to The Pirate Party, a Swedish copyright reform organization, the raid also seized Piratbyrån's (the Pirate Bureau) servers. Piratbyrån is a educational and quasi-political organization which performs a public servic role similar to The Pirate Party. In addition, The Pirate Party reports "...the servers where located in a protected area, to which the police had no legal right to enter..." Approximately 50 police participated in the raid, which placed into custody two PirateBay.org personnel.

The premature departure of ThePirateBay.org marks a significant turning point in the BitTorrent community. Although it's not currently known what, if any, entertainment entity is behind this raid, failure to secure ThePirateBay.org's permanent removal will only bolster this tracker’s position of defiance.

https://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1203

NEW INFO:

SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO

In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.

According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.

The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.

The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.

https://piratbyran.blogspo*****m/ here is the ******** i can translate a bit...

it says the police officers have ben trickt buy the filmindustri that it woud be some iligel files on the server, copyrightet files that is .. and so on...XD

Some more Info:

The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån taken down by police
Swedish police has taken all the servers of The Pirate Bay into custody, along with the servers of a number of other unrelated web hotel customers. The polise chose to do this despite the fact that the services provided by the world's largest bittorrent tracker has been deemed fully legal in Sweden.

Piratbyrån, a Swedish pro-pirate lobby organisation, also got their servers taken, since they where located in the same server rack.

Three operators of The Pirate Bay are in police custody, and can not currently be reached for comment.

NEW INFOOOO

Pirate Demonstration

Pirate demonstration this Saturday!
When?: 3.00PM
Where?: Mynttorget, Stockholm

We demand every confiscated server to be returned, that all preliminary investigations ends, and the DNA-tests to forfeit.
We also demand answers from the people responsible for the raid, in long term Thomas Bodström.

Bring this: CD-Roms and a good mood. Leave the Sabers at home.

Headorganizer: Piratbyrån
Other organizers: Piratpartiet (the Pirate Party), Liberala ungdomsförbundet (Liberal Youth association), Ung Vänster (Youth "left" (socialist party, sorry for this bad explination), Grön Ungdom (Green Youth), and more.

Local alternatives -
Gothenburg, Gustav Adolfs torg, 4.30PM. Org: Piratpartiet (the Pirate Party), Liberala ungdomsförbundet (Liberal Youth association), Grön Ungdom (Green Youth).
Malmö, Möllevångstorget, 4.30PM. Org: Piratpartiet (the Pirate Party) and more.

Preliminary information, more info soon.

Until further notice-

Piratdemonstration.se - Officiell demonstrationssida
Piratbyrån - Pressmeddelande och länkar
Copyriot - Demonstration på lördag!
IDG - Pirater arrangerar demonstration

SVD - Demonstrationer mot Bodström
LUF - Liberala ungdomsförbundet demonstrerar mot Bodström! (error about. location)
UV - Antipiratbyrån, ett hot mot yttrandefriheten
SVT - JO granskar Pirate Bay-ärendet

**Bull3t** · 05-31-2006

SITE DOWN

In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

The police officers were allowed access to the rack where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the rack were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the rack, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.

According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.

The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.

The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.

It's legal too? Owned.

**gunot** · 05-31-2006

yep they have shout down TPB before but it was up after a few days...

**Bull3t** · 05-31-2006

How stupid, do they only do this in Sweden? Because I know loads of Torrent sites that could be shut down...

**gunot** · 05-31-2006

hahah its a bit funny and shit TPB gonna probley get money for this

**Bull3t** · 05-31-2006

What you mean "money" as in compensation? Hmmm... looks like the website has gone down.

**gunot** · 05-31-2006

yep they gonna get compesation

**Beer_Hunter** · 05-31-2006

That's good for them... compensation

**[MPGH]arunforce** · 05-31-2006

I'm just scared they got my info, and want to take action against the millions of millions people who used EVERY single torrent. Though it's unlikely.