Swedish Police About to Shut Down PirateBay?

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TorrentFreak is reporting that Swedish Authorities will attempt to once again shut down the popular torrent site PirateBay by adding them to a child pornography blocklist. Until we see any official moves, this is merely a rumor.

“If the police would find anything wrong - shouldn’t they first contact us, then bring us in for questioning regarding the content, ask for our help or bring us to court for our wrongdoings? By not acting this way it’s very clear what this is all about. It’s all about quieting a voice that is really uncomfortable for them since they don’t have any legal standpoint in doing it. It’s sabotage, it’s abuse of power given to them.”
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Do whatever you want, every time you shut one down three will come in its place.

Demonoid is the best anyways. :p
 
Best quote I heard about the Internet was years ago and I don't remember who said it, but it went something like this:

"The Internet is really like a big web of roads. As soon as some asshole decides to try and block traffic in some way, it just reroutes and goes right around whatever the attempt was, be it government censorship, abuse, illegal activities, etc. There's no stopping it, so don't even bother."

Makes sense to me, and I agree with the original hacker ethic from the Tech-Model Railroad Club (before even my time, and I'm 40):

"Information wants to be free..."
 
Hey, when all else fails, used the child porn card. That's what I always say! Hey, wait, I never said that. Musta heard that from a poltician. :D
 
2 years ago they claimed success on shutting down the pirate bay.

24 hours later it was up again in all its glory. The police over there need to realize that they are working with people that are much smarter than them.
 
Shouldn't someone investigate the police for taking bribes from the RIAA?
 
Ha, fat chance. In the video they released, Piratebay stated that they learned from the first raid and now have countermeasures in place so they can be up again within the hour. LOL go RIAA
 
MrSatan said:
Ha, fat chance. In the video they released, Piratebay stated that they learned from the first raid and now have countermeasures in place so they can be up again within the hour. LOL go RIAA
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hooray freedom :D
 
MrSatan said:
Ha, fat chance. In the video they released, Piratebay stated that they learned from the first raid and now have countermeasures in place so they can be up again within the hour. LOL go RIAA
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First thing I thought was: Aarrr, bitches!
 
For those that didn't quite get it - this is not about shutting down the site itself. It's about adding the DNS name "piratebay" to a blocklist to SWEDISH ISP's which is about as much as they can do at the moment. So it "only" affects swedish ISP's so everyone else is good.

Is this power abuse? Well, the person in charge of the anti-child pornography organization is Tomas Bodström, who happened to be the one behind the raid that shut them, and alot of other unrelated sites, down the first time. Back then he was our attorney general. And then they lost the election right after that.
 
Well, hopefully the pirate party (which has a fairly strong voice over there because of the younger generation) speaks up and something is done, because the Swedish people would be the ones truly suffering. I support the Pirate Bay!

AVAST YE MATEYS! Make those RIAA scum walk the plank into the briny depths.
 
If this goes through, and as earlier said this isn't official yet, it will not go unnotived anywhere. The media attention they got the last time, which included both private citizens reporting the people behind it for power abuse as well as the swedish version of a senate hearing ("Konstitutions utskottet) on the matter. But after they lost the election the debate unfortunately died out leaving alot of unanswered question. For example we still don't know why the people that were arrested in the raid last time had their DNA sampled and saved.

But if we wake up on tuesday and piratebay is blocked I'm fairly sure our media and tabloids will react since there are more people supporting it than wants it shut down. And the good thing about the amount of money the site generates is they can afford lawyers to fight this.

Also, there was another site that was blacklisted in the same manner a while back but after protests they backed off on that site. And everyone that visits the piratebay knows there is no tolerance for child pornography posts so it's just a way to use the letter of law instead of following the spirit of it.
 
But if we wake up on tuesday and piratebay is blocked I'm fairly sure our media and tabloids will react since there are more people supporting it than wants it shut down.
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lol thats great... i love stuff like that.... the swedes have some sort of awesome hold on reality.... it definitely isn't capitalistic...


because it'd suck to be an artist/programmer/director/actor in sweden... you'd be one broke sob.... they just need to come out with a swedish law that says "any material that wasn't made in sweden should be free".... then everybody would probably support it....

that is thier attitude anyway
 
There is a ton of difference between not caring about piratebay and that pirate movement, and when the police and government are overstepping their boundaries and abusing their power. Capitalistic or not, how the piratebay have been dealt with over the years could very well be turned into a big conspiracy movie ... (which would ofc be free to download) .
 
For everyone who didn't RTFA and is actually taking the headline at face value:

TPB is not being shut down or blocked for anyone except people on Swedish ISPs
 
I believe I said that in a post a bit highter up. And to be technically correct - it's only people using the swedish ISP's DNS servers that will have trouble.
 
UrielDagda said:
Hey, when all else fails, used the child porn card. That's what I always say! Hey, wait, I never said that. Musta heard that from a poltician. :D
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Obi_Kwiet said:
Kiddie porn on TPB? I thought TPB had a sister sight for porn.
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Actually TPB is loaded with this garbage. What strikes me by surprise is that they (TPB) don't do anything about it.
 
We can all breath a sigh of relief now because apparently our cops were able to remove the child pornography from The Pirate Bay. Weird thing is noone, especially not TPB admins, knows what they removed, how they removed it or what the hell they are talking about but it's not going on the black list.

And expect a slander lawsuit filed against the police officer in question...
 
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