Police have raided the Swedish Hosting Company PRQ, Taking down dozens of File-Sharing Sites.
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[QUOTE][B]Police have raided the Swedish hosting company PRQ today, possibly looking for servers connected to copyright infringement.
PRQ was founded by Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij and is known to host or route many file-sharing sites.
The target of the raid has not been confirmed by the authorities, but The Pirate Bay team informs TorrentFreak that they are no longer using PRQ’s services.[/B]
A raid against Swedish hosting company PRQ has been confirmed today. Due to the action by police many file-sharing and streaming sites are now down or inaccessible.
All sites hosted on the 80.88./19 net are currently unavailable, including but not limited to the torrent sites torrenthound.com,
linkomanija.net and tankafetast.nu, release blog RLSLOG.net, and the sports streaming sites atdhenet.tv, hahasport.com, sportlemon.tv and stopstream.tv.
Private BitTorrent sites that use PRQ’s services are also affected. They include GFTracker and Bithumen, to name just two.
The PRQ raid coincided with downtime at The Pirate Bay but TorrentFreak is informed that this is unrelated. The Pirate Bay says it’s not using PRQ’s services and attributes the downtime to a power failure.
PRQ owner Mikael Viborg told Nyheter24 that the police were looking for particular hardware.
“Yes, they’re looking for four servers,” he said. “It is the first time since 2010 they have done this.”
The raid wasn’t plain sailing. The police first arrived on Monday hunting for hardware behind certain IP addresses. However, due to a technical error PRQ’s systems were down and the hardware could only be identified when the systems were restored today.
At this point in time Viborg cannot say which sites or services police are targeting, but he believes the investigation is related to intellectual property violations.
“No, I have not been told,” he said earlier. “Police are sitting in the office now but I have to wait until tomorrow. Then I can find out what is happening.”
Helena Ekstrand at the Prosecutor General’s Office said she was aware that a raid took place today but has no further information at this point.
This is not the first time that PRQ has been raided. In 2006 Swedish police confiscated 180 servers in The Pirate Bay raid, servers that mostly belonged to customers that were not connected to the BitTorrent site.
At this point it is unclear when the sites hosted our routed via PRQ will come back online.[/QUOTE]
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Shit. All that porn. Lost, like tears in the rain.
[QUOTE=zombays;37875630]Shit. All that porn. Lost, like tears in the rain.[/QUOTE]
like jizz in rain :´(
[QUOTE=zombays;37875630]Shit. All that porn. Lost, like tears in the rain.[/QUOTE]
all those... linux distros...
[QUOTE=Swebonny;37875755]like jizz in rain :´([/QUOTE]
Like jizz in a dairy farm
[quote]“Yes, they’re looking for four servers,” he said. “It is the first time since 2010 they have done this.”[/quote]
[quote]All sites hosted on the 80.88./19 net are currently unavailable, [/quote]
Taking a whole /19 (8192 IPs?) offline to get 4 servers. Gj Swedish police.
Kickass Torrents is still up. :fuckyeah:
So to what degree of a raid are these? I doubt they bust down the door with assault rifles, but simply knocking on the door with a mean face doesn't really scream "raid"
[QUOTE=Ericson666;37876637]So to what degree of a raid are these? I doubt they bust down the door with assault rifles, but simply knocking on the door with a mean face doesn't really scream "raid"[/QUOTE]
Fairly certain they will knock on the door, forcefully enter and take anything that is even remotely related to computers; including cameras, external harddrives, Mp3 players etc.
Good finally piracy is evil
God says no to piracy
[QUOTE=Trogdon;37876730]Good finally piracy is evil
God says no to piracy[/QUOTE]
Romney 2012?
Hopefully all the sites go back up. I'm glad none of the sites I use for "linux distros" went down though.
[QUOTE=zombays;37875630]Shit. All that porn. Lost, like tears in the rain.[/QUOTE]
I sense a disturbance in the porn... as if millions of women cried out in pleasure and were suddenly silenced.
This is a graph showing the number of members registered to the Swedish Pirate Party over the last 24 hours:
[img]http://www.ladda-upp.se/files/2012/b26845.png[/img]
Now where will I get my linux distros?
Haven't they don't like forever and done different ways to stop them?
For Christ saike it's gonna get back up again in a few days. They allways has an ess in the back.
Good thing we have [URL="http://torrentz.eu/"]torrentz.eu[/URL], this site indexes all torrent sites.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;37875755]like jizz in rain :´([/QUOTE]
Jizz in the rain gets anything but lost, let me tell you.
I seriously hope the US doesnt have their greasy fingers involved in this. I dont want sweden to become americas bitch #43545
Kinda funny that they use 'file-sharing', file-sharing isn't bad.
I love the current general attitude that governments are taking against bootleg torrents "we should ban cars because people can transport contraband in them!"
[QUOTE=_Chewgum;37893550]Kinda funny that they use 'file-sharing', file-sharing isn't bad.[/QUOTE]
File-sharing isn't inherently bad. It's just that stuff gets kinda nasty when copyrighted files get involved.
That explains why a bunch of torrent sites and file sharing sites were down yesterday.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;37893573]I love the current general attitude that governments are taking against bootleg torrents "we should ban cars because people can transport contraband in them!"[/QUOTE]
A better comparison would be roads not cars. And in that case your analogy fails since there's already police on all major roads.
[QUOTE=Jocke;37893135]Haven't they don't like forever and done different ways to stop them?[/QUOTE]
You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37893578]File-sharing isn't inherently bad. It's just that stuff gets kinda nasty when copyrighted files get involved.[/QUOTE]
They don't mention 'illegal' file-sharing, instead you see that they use only 'file-sharing', as if it's the definition of illegal activity.
In retaliation, Anonymous attacked a couple of agency sites.
The Pirate Party posted this picture on their facebook:
[IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/581389_10151245160296197_1206348324_n.jpg[/IMG]
With the comment:
"The Pirate Party doesn't support any internet attacks against government sites, we work through politics and legal activism. However, that is a very cute seal."
And the reason in the sudden spike of party members is because one of the major file-sharing sites, which also was the main target, reroutes their traffic to the pirate party's facebook page.
Wasn't there a downloadable Pirate Bay made a little while ago? I mean, you just can't get rid of it permanently.
[QUOTE=Badballer;37894172]Wasn't there a downloadable Pirate Bay made a little while ago? I mean, you just can't get rid of it permanently.[/QUOTE]
Pirate Bay isn't hosted by prq anymore. The only connection is that the founders of tpb also founded prq. Tpb was down because of a power supply problem.
[QUOTE=The fox;37876697]Fairly certain they will knock on the door, forcefully enter and take anything that is even remotely related to computers; including cameras, external harddrives, Mp3 players etc.[/QUOTE]
What they're [b]meant[/b] to do is walk into the datacenter reception with a warrant, tell them which servers they are going to seize and take them.
What they're not meant to do is take out 8192 IP addresses (they probably nicked a core router as well as the servers)
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