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Well anyhow this apparently happened:
Sux
As one of the largest trackers, ThePirateBay.org largely replaced the demise of the SuprNova.org search engine. 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 have learned ThePirateBay.org is currently being raided by Swedish police.
Its a sad day for the free world.
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TorrentPortal, Seedler, and MiniNova rejoice...
et al.
Funny thing - I'm willing to bet the photoshop plugins slyck used to make the sinking pirate ship were not purchased 
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yeah piratebay was wicked. it was cool how they uploaded all the legal threat emails they recived for everyone to see lol.
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lol. How did this happen? with all the legal emails on their site, i was under the impression that what they did is still legal in sweden.
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MusicIndustry Lobbist organization and money influence politics way to much.
They are not sure it is a crime yet, the chief police inspector said something along thoose lines regarding what type of crime it ws:
"Well, it will either be found copyright material on their servers made avaible for download or it will be classed as: assist to breaking of copyright."
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United Kingdom10597 Posts
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im gonna end up laughing my ass off when the police cant hold them
hopefully no retards at piratebay kept warez on their own servers
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just wait until they start calling torrent sites "terrorists", THEN you will be worried
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Well, atleast the real criminals are being brought to justice.
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On May 31 2006 0e6:13 haduken wrote:
lol. How did this happen? with all the legal emails on their site, i was under the impression that what they did is still legal in sweden.
It is legal to some extent (actually it was fully legal until the first of july last year). Hosting a tracker is legal, and so are trackers since they don't really contain any information. It is however, illegal to us a tracker to download copyrighted information. This means that thepiratebay was operating within legal boundaries, but people who downloaded copyrighted files using torrents were acting illegally. That pretty much sums it up, and I'm still wondering what the actual cause of this raid is.
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Canada9720 Posts
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On May 31 2006 06:38 pubbanana wrote:
Well, atleast the real criminals are being brought to justice.
its not about that
its about stopping it from going on so much in the future
its impossible to stop all of it and secretly its in the very people who are trying to stop its interests to get cheap shit every now and again.
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Sweden3694 Posts
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eh, I have no idea what you're talking about, but if I was going to download software and media for purely educational purposes, I would much rather use torrentspy.com.
But I don't, so this doesn't effect me at all.
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http://linuxreviews.org/news/2005/06/0100b_the_pirate_bay_joke/
then again:
The Pirate Bay nedstängd
Polisen genomförde idag en rad husrannsakningar mot lokaler där The Pirate Bay bedriver sin verksamhet. Klockan 12 30 stängdes sidan thepiratebay.org ned.
The Pirate Bay var fram tills igår knutpunkten för en stor del av världens illegala fildelning. Enligt egna uppgifter fanns det en dryg miljon användare som kunde laddade upp och ned främst filmer, spel och musik. Genom sin storlek och uttalade målsättning att hänga ut och håna berörda upphovsmän gjorde man The Pirate Bay känd över hela världen. Sverige blev internationellt känt som en fristad för dem som begick upphovsrättsbrott på Internet. Detta utnyttjades ekonomiskt för en omfattande försäljning av annonser, porreklam och insamling av donationer.
Det är bra att den svenska polisen nu prioriterar denna typ av brottslighet. Det är upphovsrätten som finansierar nyskapandet inom film, datorspel, musik och övrig kultur. Den som bryter mot upphovsrättslagen stjäl från framtidens kreatörer och biopublik. Därför är stängningen av The Pirate Bay bra för alla oss som uppskattar ny film och underhållning säger Henrik Pontén, jurist på Antipiratbyrån.
Svenska produktioner drabbas i hög grad av den illegala nedladdningen, säger Per-Erik Wallin, Föreningen Sveriges Filmproducenter. Om svenska filmer finns tillgängliga på nätet före premiären innebär det minskade chanser att filmerna ska spela hem produktionskostnaden och mindre medel för att göra nästa film. Det drabbar både manusförfattare, regissörer, skådespelare och filmarbetare.
any one who speaks swedish care to translate?
source: http://antipiratbyran.com/index.htm?id=news&p=p19#19
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Glad I got in my last few major downloads from that site.
I download Windows Vista Beta 2 5484, and the entire Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Annhiliator discographies 
Damn, I was hoping to shamelessly steal more.
Yeah, I steal. :p
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