Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline

[helmuth_hubener]

No, opal (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?464590-does-the-pirate-bay-count-as-a-hot-topic), I do not think The Pirate Bay counts as a hot topic.



Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Police in Sweden carried out a raid in Stockholm today, seizing servers, computers, and other equipment. At the same time The Pirate Bay and several other torrent-related sites disappeared offline. Although no official statement has been made, TF sources confirm action against TPB.

For many years The Pirate Bay has been sailing by the seat of its pants so any downtime is met with concern from its millions of users.

This morning, for the first time in months, The Pirate Bay disappeared offline. A number of concerned users emailed TF for information but at that point technical issues seemed the most likely culprit.

However, over in Sweden authorities have just confirmed that local police carried out a raid in Stockholm this morning as part of an operation to protect intellectual property.

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” read a statement from Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement.

Police are staying quiet on the exact location of the operation and the targets involved but the fact that the national police IP chief is involved at this early stage suggests something sizable.

In addition, expert file-sharing case prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad has commented on the raid, further adding weight to the incident.

“There were a number of police officers and digital forensics experts there. This took place during the morning and continued until this afternoon. Several servers and computers were seized, but I cannot say exactly how many,” Ingblad told SR.

Ingblad would not be drawn on any arrests during the operation but TorrentFreak has learned that police may have detained at least one man connected to the site.

While it seems certain that The Pirate Bay has been targeted today, it was not the only casualty. Several other torrent related sites including EZTV, Zoink, Torrage and the Istole tracker are also down.

Update: The Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org is also offline. The same goes for Bayimg.com and Pastebay.net.

Update: According to the police the raid targeted a data center in Nacka which is built into a “mountain.”

Breaking news story, more as we have it.

-- https://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

[ZENemy]

lol good luck with that.

[helmuth_hubener]

lol good luck with that.

Wait, good luck to whom, with what?

[Peace&Freedom]

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” read a statement from Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement.

Meaning, the US government and through them, the US entertainment corporations, have put pressure on Sweden to raid Pirate bay. Many of the lawyers for those companies became staffers at the Obama Justice department, and brought their "crush torrents" agenda with them into the DOJ. TPB has been raided before, and just set up server shop elsewhere (this time, I hear, it's moving to Costa Rica).

[ZENemy]

Wait, good luck to whom, with what?

With any gov stopping anything such as TPB.

Mega is stronger than ever after his "raid"

Napster never went away it simply split into 100 different programs (bearshare, limewire) and it will continue to do so.

[Peace Piper]

Already back online

https://thepiratebay.cr/

Swedish police raid ‘downs Pirate Bay,’ website back online
http://rt.com/news/212911-pirate-bay-police-raid/

[ZENemy]

Already back online

https://thepiratebay.cr/

Swedish police raid ‘downs Pirate Bay,’ website back online
http://rt.com/news/212911-pirate-bay-police-raid/

:D:D:D:D:D

[muh_roads]

Pirate Bay is already back up in Costa Rica...lol

Less than 24 hours, I think that is a record.

[Natural Citizen]

Buncha thieves. Heh...

[helmuth_hubener]

Cool! I guess Peace&Freedom's inside information was correct.

While there are plenty of other places to freely share files, it happifies me to have The Pirate Bay still around, un-shutdownable. :) Don't go there without an adblocker, though. The ads are awful.

[helmuth_hubener]

Buncha thieves. Heh...

Yeah, that's what the monopoly state does: steal things and smash equipment. It's just their modus operandi. It's the only way they can deal with the world.

[jbauer]

Cool! I guess Peace&Freedom's inside information was correct.

While there are plenty of other places to freely share files, it happifies me to have The Pirate Bay still around, un-shutdownable. :) Don't go there without an adblocker, though. The ads are awful.

I've been running an adblocker for 5-10 yrs. Why would you go anywhere on the internet wihtou?

[helmuth_hubener]

I've been running an adblocker for 5-10 yrs. Why would you go anywhere on the internet wihtou?

If you're using someone else's device. For instance.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Update: According to the police the raid targeted a data center in Nacka which is built into a “mountain.”

Isn't that the data center built in a cold war bunker?
Isn't WikiLeaks in that same site?


http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2473428,00.asp
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/pirate-bay-cofounder-peter-sunde-says-hes-happy-to-see-site-gone/

-t

[helmuth_hubener]

Yeah, I had read the article about Peter (a cofounder, just got out of jail for it) being glad it's gone. He doesn't like the ads, either!

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Long live The Pirate Bay!

To contribute, here's a link to my favorite legal response (http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/615-Piratebay-legal-threats-best-of.html).

[parocks]

Trick to access content of thepiratebay.se !!!

Step 1. Google this query : site:thepiratebay.se Keyword .. (Replace keyword with your keyword)
Now you will see all results related to your keyword

Step 2 : With each url of result you can see down arrow in blue. Click that arrow and select cached version.

Step 3 : Since site is down select text only version from cached page so that google will not look for css and images.

Step 4 : Now go and download magnet link from bottom by clicking Get this torrent

[invisible]

Step 5 : Wait for the copyright cops to kick in your door in the middle of the night and flashbang your kids.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Raid-Proofing the System

The Pirate Bay previously bragged that it had raid-proofed its infrastructure, moving it onto 21 virtual machines at a number of commercial cloud service providers around the world that don't know it's their customer.

Eight of the VMs reportedly serve the Web pages. Another six handle searches, and two run the site's database. They use a total of 182 GB of RAM and 94 CPU cores. Total storage capacity is 620 GB.

All traffic goes through the load balancer, which means none of the cloud service providers' IP addresses is publicly linked to The Pirate Bay.

The setup "demonstrates the challenges that governments are going to have regulating the Internet -- just like they've had with the banking and financial industries," said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.

Regulating a global network is difficult and "takes a lot of time," he told TechNewsWorld. "The situation must be given high priority, and you have to ask whether there's enough incentive for the U.S. and EU governments to push through regulations in this case."

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81469.html?google_editors_picks=true

-t

[The Free Hornet]

Step 5 : Wait for the copyright cops to kick in your door in the middle of the night and flashbang your kids.

You forgot a step:


Step 6 : Successfully censor and suppress any information incriminating the state.

If Hollywood wins, freedom and privacy loses.

[GunnyFreedom]

Trick to access content of thepiratebay.se !!!

Step 1. Google this query : site:thepiratebay.se Keyword .. (Replace keyword with your keyword)
Now you will see all results related to your keyword

Step 2 : With each url of result you can see down arrow in blue. Click that arrow and select cached version.

Step 3 : Since site is down select text only version from cached page so that google will not look for css and images.

Step 4 : Now go and download magnet link from bottom by clicking Get this torrent

So you would suggest browsing for the magnet links to torrents via GO-ram "Don't be evil" Google?

[RonPaulMall]

Recent Update:

https://torrentfreak.com/can-pirate-bay-make-comeback-141210/

Seems the key to whether or not they will be able to come back or not comes down to who got pinched and how critical they were to the operation.

[Suzanimal]

Anonymous Hacks Top Swedish Govt Emails Against seizure of Pirate Bay.

Online hacktivist Anonymous with cooperation of HagashTeam has target the Swedish government against shutting down of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week.

Hackers have leaked email addresses of government officials especially Sweden.

The hack was announced by Anonymous on their Twitter handle. After analyzing the data we found email addresses with their clear text passwords belonging to government officials from Sweden, India, Israel, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

...

http://hackread.com/anonymous-hacks-swedish-govt-emails-pirate-bay/

[parocks]

So you would suggest browsing for the magnet links to torrents via GO-ram "Don't be evil" Google?

Actually, I just cut and pasted that. I don't have an actual suggestion. You have a point.

[ctiger2]

They're gonna love the decenteralized internet.

[ChristianAnarchist]

They're gonna love the decenteralized internet.

I'm hoping something like Maidsafe becomes commonplace soon..