http://slashdot.org/articles/06/05/31/1226224.shtml

for those who care

Quote :

"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. "

http://thepiratebay.org/

5/31/2006 11:58:17 AM

it was first posted on slyck.com - it's not dead - they've said it will return - there is nothing on the servers that was breaking the swedish law

5/31/2006 11:59:00 AM

oh i seriously doubt it will back. thats wishful thinking.

with the clout of the recording industry and to some degree the american government against them, i doubt we'll be seeing tpb again (unless they sell the codebase to someone in some other country like suprnova did)

5/31/2006 12:08:44 PM

so what else is good

5/31/2006 12:11:34 PM

^^^

That's the first thing I thought ... what laws in their own country have they broken? I remember getting a good laught out of reading their replies to various technology companies legal threats.

[Edited on May 31, 2006 at 12:43 PM. Reason : .]

5/31/2006 12:43:32 PM

I wonder how long till Mininova and all the others suffer the same fate. Fucking corporations. And this fucking worthless government as well. Man, I hate the US government.

5/31/2006 12:54:33 PM

^As long as they get shut down, new ones will appear.

5/31/2006 1:15:39 PM

tpb will be back in one form or another.

anyways i stopped using tpb about 2 days after i found out about it b/c it blows

5/31/2006 1:21:32 PM

i always liked tpb

5/31/2006 1:31:01 PM

^^ how does it blow?

what laws in their own country have they broken?

Quote :

"Evidently some if the gov't broke down their door and seized their servers"

5/31/2006 1:58:57 PM

Quote :

"I wonder how long till Mininova and all the others suffer the same fate. Fucking corporations. And this fucking worthless government as well. Man, I hate the US government. "

Why are you hating on them? They are will within their rights to prevent their IP from getting stolen, which is, for the most part, what people are doing. It's part of the "game" to get around the raids and stuff. And, as someone said before, when one site goes down, another one fills the gap.

5/31/2006 2:17:28 PM

public trackers are some junk

5/31/2006 3:00:27 PM

suprnova

5/31/2006 3:13:24 PM

I don't read Slashdot ... any commentary on what laws were broken?

6/3/2006 12:28:20 PM

They're back, just FYI ...

6/3/2006 1:08:58 PM

and their now in the netherlands.



[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 1:17 PM. Reason : img]

6/3/2006 1:17:01 PM

Quote :

"it was first posted on slyck.com - it's not dead - they've said it will return - there is nothing on the servers that was breaking the swedish law"

Quote :

"oh i seriously doubt it will back. thats wishful thinking. with the clout of the recording industry and to some degree the american government against them, i doubt we'll be seeing tpb again (unless they sell the codebase to someone in some other country like suprnova did)"

6/3/2006 1:17:10 PM

Ah nevermind, the search function is just temporarily down.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 2:27 PM. Reason : ]

6/3/2006 2:21:56 PM

^i noticed the same thing.....something weird is going on here

6/3/2006 2:28:49 PM

i love the internet

but wouldn't it suck if the RIAA actually took over The Pirate Bay, reset it up, and every IP address that goes there from now on gets recorded, logged, and monitored? hmmmmm

6/3/2006 2:30:05 PM

Heh yeah, that might have just been my paranoia speaking at first, but that would be a pretty good way of finding IP's to monitor and prosecute...

6/3/2006 2:34:20 PM

wouldn't matter. The RIAA doesn't put out anything that I would download.

6/3/2006 2:42:04 PM

^

6/3/2006 3:51:35 PM

^^

6/3/2006 3:52:15 PM

^^^

6/3/2006 4:08:55 PM

haha

I AM SO COOL AND UNDERGROUND I WILL BLATANTLY LIE AND SAY I HAVE NEVER OWNED ANY RECORD EVER FOUND IN ANY STORE IN THE WORLD

I AM SO AWESOME

6/3/2006 4:10:33 PM

Quote :

"Just some stats... ... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix: Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days .. yawn. "

from their blog

6/5/2006 1:29:32 AM

torrentspy>pirate bay>mininova

6/5/2006 8:09:22 AM

^ isohunt.com?????

6/6/2006 4:44:46 PM

dude I totally only use eMule. Only leet people use eMule. god you guys are retarded.

6/6/2006 4:57:20 PM

dalnet!!!1

6/6/2006 4:57:56 PM

MRG 4 LIFE

6/6/2006 5:09:49 PM

the mrg kids are good ppl - i still chat with the isonews ppl i was on "staff" with 4-5yrs ago

[Edited on June 6, 2006 at 5:15 PM. Reason : .]

6/6/2006 5:12:23 PM

^ who were you on isonews? I used to talk shit for hours on irc with them waaay back.

pub scanning anyone??

6/6/2006 6:38:32 PM

same nick - i still visit to chat with penguin/mandarin/inphi

6/6/2006 8:03:19 PM

never really looked into isohunt...

6/7/2006 2:54:37 AM

uh it seems to be back up and running?

6/7/2006 9:36:40 AM

BUCKET

6/7/2006 10:18:55 AM

the moral police are coming around. better watch out

6/7/2006 11:59:54 AM

no buckets yet? how odd...

6/7/2006 1:48:54 PM

i use AOL chatrooms

/send 43-55

6/7/2006 3:49:34 PM

aol chatrooms used to be the shit back in the day

6/7/2006 3:59:33 PM

yeah me and my friends would go into the lesbian chat rooms and be like yo i'm all wet send pics

Quote :

"haha I AM SO COOL AND UNDERGROUND I WILL BLATANTLY LIE AND SAY I HAVE NEVER OWNED ANY RECORD EVER FOUND IN ANY STORE IN THE WORLD I AM SO AWESOME"

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 4:22 PM. Reason : that shits funny]

6/7/2006 4:21:59 PM

Quote :

"i use AOL chatrooms /send 43-55 "

hell yeah. those were good times. that's old school

6/7/2006 7:27:13 PM

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1227

6/21/2006 11:32:45 AM

^stick it to the man!

6/21/2006 11:39:25 AM

nm

[Edited on July 2, 2006 at 10:44 PM. Reason : ]

7/2/2006 10:43:44 PM