SITE DOWN

In the morning of 2005-05-31 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.

glad they waited til season's finale of LOST . . .

but what now!

yest find a nother tracker and the problem is solved... Heard a statement from TPB for a year ago that they where ready to move abroad, and things where aranged to continue everything if it got fucked.. Dont know if its true thow.

but it would be fun

Always going to happen. Those guys were too cocky and their arguments were (unfortunately) too flawed. It was only a matter of time...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/31/piratebay_raid/

as long as they are not doing too much dodgy shit on the side i am not in the least worried for these guys, afterall what they are doing is completely legal in sweden and in accordance with swedish law. for the court to rule out anything else is impossible since there is no law agains the use of the type of torrent description files in sweden... GO PIRATEBAY::

and being cocky is not against the law either!!

this will:

promote the new swedish pirate party further and compensate thepiratebay and especially piratbyran.org in the long run..

read in the swedish online-press today www.di.se

..... I am chocked!! Swedish police can act outside the law since like broaky mentioned it is completly legal what they are doing.

I WILL DEFINITLY VOTE FOR THE PIRATBAY as a protest vote

Which good alternativs are there, any suggestions?

FIND OUT MORE DIRECTLY------->www2.piratpartiet.se

it also in english!

http://www2.piratpartiet.se/#english

after hearing that the swedish anti-piracy bureau was behind this made me even more comfortable.. ;-D

henrik pontén has a death wish!

http://web.telia.com/~u85322465/apbtankar6ta.png

http://support.cox.com/sdccommon/asp/contentredirect.asp?sprt_cid=c8bc8c1a-2a73-4755-875f-155a1e35d440

Interestingly, the high speed provider most of us use here is shutting down access to people who are spotted by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)....

my friend went home today and he had a special message on his computer that his access had been blocked, and that he has two more "strikes" and then he's "out".... ha ha ha