[quote]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 .se domain name may be targeted soon.
pitrate bay raidIn 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 determination to get the site back online as soon as possible set the defiant tone for the years that followed. Today, the site prides itself in being the most resilient torrent site around.
In recent years The Pirate Bay has implemented a variety of changes to guarantee that the site remains online. It added several backup domains, placed servers all over the world, and removed resource intensive processes.
Earlier this week The Pirate Bay took another important step by removing .torrent files altogether to become a “magnet link” site. As a result, the entire site can now be reduced to a few hundred megabytes, small enough to fit on the tiniest thumb drive.
For the police, this makes a successful Pirate Bay raid almost impossible. While they can take steps to put the site out of business briefly, it’s inevitable that it will re-appear in a matter of hours, or days.
Or to use the words of the Pirate Bay team. “We’re staying put where we are. We’re going no-where. But we have a message to hollywood, the investigators and the prosecutors: LOL.” [/quote]
They just dont give up do they?
What are they going to find now? ~90 MB of just text links?
[url]http://torrentfreak.com/police-plans-to-raid-the-pirate-bay-120309/[/url]
I can't access their site, anyone else?
[quote]The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time – The Pirate Bay’s servers.[/quote]
Heh
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;35063740]I can't access their site, anyone else?[/QUOTE]
its .se now
Visual presentation of the raid:
[video=youtube;fE2VfpG8JM0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2VfpG8JM0[/video]
Einstein's definition of insanity is trying the same thing and expecting a different result.
Because, you know, this worked so well last time they did it.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;35063757]Einstein's definition of insanity is trying the same thing and expecting a different result.[/QUOTE]
Is it ironic that a scientist said this?
Because I'm pretty sure there's irony in there somewhere.
This is retarded. If I remember correctly you could actually download the pirate bay and host it where ever, so if you tore it down somewhere it could just be rehosted somewhere else basically instantly. They need to stop trying to go after pirates and deal with some real crime or something.
The biggest threat to entertainment industry is when they become boring and not entertaining.
Well, uh, good luck? The site is impossible to put down now, there's thousands of people with the data backed up.
They are digging their own grave. Every time they take down one thing, torrent sites will come up with something better up to the point it becomes impossible to do anything for the police.
Really, again? They were wasting their time the first raid, they're wasting their time again.
[QUOTE=sami-pso;35063829]They are digging their own grave. Every time they take down one thing, torrent sites will come up with something better up to the point it becomes impossible to do anything for the police.[/QUOTE]There needs to be a threat for evolution to occur.
[QUOTE=Bound;35063789]This is retarded. If I remember correctly you could actually download the pirate bay and host it where ever, so if you tore it down somewhere it could just be rehosted somewhere else basically instantly. They need to stop trying to go after pirates and [b]deal with some real crime or something.[/b][/QUOTE]
But there's so little crime here anyway so of course they will do something that doesn't need to be done at all
[QUOTE=McNab;35063766]Is it ironic that a scientist said this?
Because I'm pretty sure there's irony in there somewhere.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'm guessing he was talking out of experience.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35063890]There needs to be a threat for evolution to occur.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but it seems like it's going to be a one way evolution with the police not evolving.
Piratebay is like a cockroach.
They will find a new way to annoy them.
You know something's terribly, TERRIBLY wrong when the entertainment industry, (Hollywood + corporations) are able to have free reign using police force to shut down "piracy" in other countries outside the United States.
Just goes to show to what extent they're trying to control the money and how people are able to access media and data
I still don't get the whole "right to data" movement. News and research? Fine. Movies and games? Nope.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;35063740]I can't access their site, anyone else?[/QUOTE]
Try any of these
thepiratebay.se
piratebay.org
piratebay.net
thepiratebay.com
themusicbay.com
thepiratebay.net
depiraatbaai.be
[QUOTE=jordguitar;35063751]its .se now[/QUOTE]
No I go to .se and it won't let me in.
Pretty sure this whole thread violates all the rules on "Piracy And Leaks".
It's not okay to post shit like this, guys.
EDIT:
I suppose linking to the site only is acceptable but seems pretty risky.
[QUOTE=NicoleEmilid;35065052]Pretty sure this whole thread violates all the rules on "Piracy And Leaks".
It's not okay to post shit like this, guys.[/QUOTE]
No it doesn't and yes it is.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;35065033]No I go to .se and it won't let me in.[/QUOTE]
Guys it's a cop
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;35065085]No it doesn't and yes it is.[/QUOTE]
Refer to my original post. Smiley face.
[QUOTE=NicoleEmilid;35065052]Pretty sure this whole thread violates all the rules on "Piracy And Leaks".
It's not okay to post shit like this, guys.[/QUOTE]
Y'know there's also legal things on TBP?
It's when we're talking about specific illegal content that the mods are forced to stop it all.
The reason for the seemingly mindless repetition of a futile task to take down TPB is as a direct result of the bigots who don't understand how the internet works yet dump money on it in the hope it stops something. It's alright though, because it's their loss, not TPB or anyone else
alright then, snip
[QUOTE=proch;35065159]Yeah Like I for egsample just torrented the shit out of Skyrim [sp]mods[/sp][/QUOTE]
That's not how you use the spoiler tag [img]http://facepunch.com/fp/emoot/colbert.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Trumple;35065140]The reason for the seemingly mindless repetition of a futile task to take down TPB is as a direct result of the bigots who don't understand how the internet works yet dump money on it in the hope it stops something. It's alright though, because it's their loss, not TPB or anyone else[/QUOTE]
They do understand how internet works. A server hosts a site. Take down the server and the site is gone.
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