ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down

An anonymous reader writes "ThePirateBay.org, a longtime fixture of the BitTorrent community, is currently under investigation. Slyck.com is reporting their servers have been seized by the Swedish police." What's really interesting about them is the strange political power that they held in their homeland. There was much discussion even of a political party. This will be interesting to watch unfold.

It wasn't the police.

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet it was really ninjas.

By raiding the pirate bay...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yarr! Imagine all the booty those law enforcement agents got their hands on!

Re:This is the sort of publicity you can't buy.

[iNTERcEPTOR-SdB]

Good luck to Pirate Bay. They make really good rum drinks! *burp*

An open letter to Sweden.

[Funkcikle]

Please let me finish freeing the flow of information, specifically Season 4 of Family Guy. Thank you.

24

[fluxindamix]

thank god, 24 is finished !!

Re:come on, let's face it

[JudeanPeople'sFront]

Why do half-measures, let's close the internet while we're at it! Most of the traffic is porn and/or pirated.

Re:Strange political power

[oneandoneis2]

I'd take politicians funded by porn ads over the bastards taking a chunk out of my salary any day :o)

Re:It wasn't the police.

[gbobeck]

I bet it was really ninjas.

No. The Flying Spagetti Monster launched a preemptive strike in order to clear the bay for his chosen pirates.

Ramen.

Maybe they were warned about it...

[Garabito]

but swedish police officers might have not liked when they were told to "sodomize themselves with retractable batons".

Aw shucks. . .

[CrtxReavr]

Now I feel guilty about ad-blocking the banners on there. . .

-CR

Re:Legal?

[Asphalt]

Now I remember reading the legal threats page, and the phrase normally went along the lines of "US Copyrights Mean Nothing Here".

What changed? Sending letters is one thing, but something pretty heavy must be going on to warrant that kind of response.

Can any of our swedish friends fill in the gaps here? I'm sure we're missing something.

It's really quite simple.

Terrorists can download .torrent files. And if terrorists can download .torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.

This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.

This will impact the safety of all of our children as terrorists with big boners from watching Britney in that video with the short skirt will erupt into testosterone-fueled rages ... and this will greatly impact our war on terror.

This has nothing to do with copyright law, and everything to do with the safety of the free world.

I don't understand what you don't get about it?

Re:A quote

[Jon Luckey]

"Vergoofin der flicke stoobin mit der børk-børk yubetcha!"

A Møøse once bit my sister ...

Re:It wasn't the police.

[idiotdevel]

nope... it was PIRATES... oh the IRONY

Re:Strange political power

[Malakusen]

Today's State of the Union address is sponsored by Vivid Porn Productions.

I might actually start watching the SOTU again if they did that...

Damnit!

[cimmer]

In other news, the global warming index increased unexpectedly by 1.2% this morning.

Re:come on, let's face it

[MyNameIsEarl]

Sweden does not equal Switzerland last time I checked. I do believe they might export some sort of fancy meatballs though.

Re:Strange political power

[Asphalt]

Do you really think people accustomed to taking things for free and financing their business with porn ads should handle distribution of your tax money?

Only if the advertised porn sites contain a sufficient girl-on-girl selection.

Otherwise, no.

Re:odd

[Wellington Grey]

50 policemen?! Why so many? Were they trying to take down Neo?

-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]

Ahhhhhhh

[Anonymous Coward]

It's as if millions of geeks cried out at once... and were suddenly silenced.

Re:By raiding the pirate bay...

[Mayhem178]

Same deal as when they break up prostitution joints.

now what

[jaimz22]

now where am i going to buy my software!?

Re:odd

[TGK]

Your men are already dead

Re:odd

[shoolz]

It does seem improbable that the police would make a comment to a random caller, presumably from another country. We need a 2nd person to call and confirm; report back to this thread.

Re:It wasn't the police.

[pcgabe]

Oh, when will Pirates and Ninjas stop this pointless, bloody feud?
 
...

And join forces to take out those damn dirty Vikings!

Re:It wasn't the police.

[Tibor the Hun]

Ramen.

Re:TPB shutdown clearly visible in graphs

[ichigo 2.0]

Looks like slashdot is now affecting the traffic of the entire site of stats.autonomica.se.

Re:Legal?

[Asphalt]

>Problem is that terrorists are more clever than to use unencrypted information  sharing, so what you're proposing is that we allow the Gov. to listen in on us while the terrorists really doesn't care.

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Vikings are Norwegion

[geeksdave]

The vast majority of Vikings were Norwegion not Swedish. My Viking ancestors kicked your ancestors buttocks. Be nice or I'll throw lutefisk at you.

Re:The Political Pirate Party

[isorox]

I am Swedish, I worry a lot about the IP land grab going on

IPv6 will sort that out

Re:Legal?

[Tweekster]

No they just target 13 year olds and people without computers.

Re:Legal?

[Anonymous Coward]

Terrorists can download .torrent files. And if terrorists can download .torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.

This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.

Not to mention that these terrorists could then walk into a bank, air port, mall, etc. and PLAY BACK THOSE FILES. I think that's the more pressing danger here.

Re:come on, let's face it

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering that until recently Armenian industry was pretty much completely controlled from Russia, I don't see that you Armenians have much to boast about.

Re:Strange political power

[Anonymous Coward]

I work for Diebold,

We are allowed to vote more than once for the Presidential election.

Re:Legal?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I sue dead people!" -- The RIAA.

Re:Legal?

[MrNougat]

Terrorists can download .torrent files. And if terrorists can download .torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.

This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.

Following this logic (terrorists acquire torrents of mass-produced crap which leads to greater hatred of the West) -- I side with the terrorists in their hatred.

(Note to NSA - not with the blowing up of things, just with the hatred.)

SIlver Lining...

[Dot Solipsism]

At least they waited until after all the season finales before raiding.

Re:This is the sort of accessories you can't buy.

[geminidomino]

Just call losing the "smug smile" a down payment on the "shit eating grin" they'll have when they get back up and running.

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Re:It wasn't the police.

[L0k11]

And now... Grammar police *are* coming after you and won't listen to any excuses!

Re:This is the sort of publicity you can't buy.

[Sleepy]

>The pirate party and thepiratebay are not affiliated in any way. They are to different movements.

Don't you mean... Vey are different movements. ?

Re:You're right

[ceoyoyo]

True, but two parties is still kind of confusing. Why not cut it down to one? MUCH simpler! The citizens won't be nearly as confused at elections.

Re:odd

[neo]

Were they trying to take down Neo?


No, I'm fine.

Re:Vikings are Norwegion

[Ch_Omega]

Damn, commenting someones bad spelling of the name of my country, and I manage to get it misspelled myself. Hehe.. Ofcourse it's "Norwegian". :)

Re:odd

[geekoid]

Neo? your about 4624 too late