ThePirateBay.org = shut down

[Newby]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1226224&from=rss

:(.

[Ergot]

If slyck.com is slow for any of you guys like it is for me...

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.

[rabbit]

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[MyndFyre]

Scary times.  They were a good torrent site.

[Sidoh]

*sigh*

* Sidoh cries himself to sleep.

[Ergot]

They will be back... check the website ;)

[Joe]

http://www.thepiratebay.org/

NOOOO

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.

[Blaze]

http://www.x86labs.org:81/forum/index.php/topic,6033.0.html

[Sidoh]

(-_(\

[skip]

Ahh, well, there are plenty of other bittorrent sites out there.

:-X

[Ergot]

Yes... but this one isn't gone :\?

[Joe]

Ahh, well, there are plenty of other bittorrent sites out there.

:-X

There are plenty of books in the bible but if only Genesis was taken away we would have no girls to chillax with! =(

[skip]

Ahh, well, there are plenty of other bittorrent sites out there.

:-X

There are plenty of books in the bible but if only Genesis was taken away we would have no girls to chillax with! =(

Lmfao, true.

[rabbit]

Ahh, well, there are plenty of other bittorrent sites out there.

:-X

There are plenty of books in the bible but if only Genesis was taken away we would have no girls to chillax with! =(

If Genesis were taken away none of the rest of the Bible could take place...wait........that gives me an idea...............

[iago]

I wonder if that's why http://polisen.se/ has been getting DDoS'ed for the last few days.....