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Skriven 2006-06-01 17:13:00 av Paul Sanders (3:633/104)
  Kommentar till text 30764 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
Ärende: Swedish Pirate site busted
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ST>According to BJ, there are no copyright laws in Sweden.  Based on this
ST>latest raid I suppose he is mistaken.

ST>(Stockholm Sweden) The Swedish website Piratebay.org was shut down today as
ST>over 50 law enforcement officials raided 10 locations throughout Sweden
ST>seizing servers and arresting five people.

A somewhat less biased news story:

(snip)
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 “brokepö told Slyck.com.

The seizure of ThePirateBay.orgs 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
(snip)

Note that The Pirate Bay *never* had copyright files available for
distribution, they are an indexing site, no more, no less

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