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Offline Kosh

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The Pirate Bay raided?
on: May 31, 2006, 09:04:46 pm
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060531-6949.html


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BitTorrent tracker sites have come under heavy assault from the MPAA over the past year or so. One site that has operated with almost total impunity is the Swedish tracker site ThePirateBay.org. Those days may have come to an end, as the site was raided by Swedish law enforcement and has had all of its servers confiscated. Two of the site operators are currently in police custody as charges of breaching copyright law and assisting in the breach of copyright law are being investigated.


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Offline Flipside

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #1 on: May 31, 2006, 09:08:05 pm
Herding Cats.

How much did that whole operation cost, I wonder? And by this time next month, another one will spring up somewhere else and they'll have to do it all over again.

They really do need to think up a better plan of action than this, it's so wastefull :(
 

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #2 on: May 31, 2006, 09:13:58 pm
Wooot!!!

Ummm, nevermind that statement, a select few know what I'm talking about. 1 down. :drevil:
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Offline Kamikaze

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #3 on: May 31, 2006, 09:16:36 pm
Glad to know there's nothing better for fifty police officers in Sweden to be doing than shutting down perfectly legal torrent sites.
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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #4 on: May 31, 2006, 09:18:21 pm
Not that it's bad that criminals have been caught WeatherOp, but the problem is that, for every site they down, another 2 are created. I agree that Filesharing is illegal, no problem there, but I don't agree that the RIAA is dealing with it in anything near an efficient manner.
 

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #5 on: May 31, 2006, 09:19:57 pm
Quote from: Flipside on May 31, 2006, 09:18:21 pm
Not that it's bad that criminals have been caught WeatherOp, but the problem is that, for every site they down, another 2 are created. I agree that Filesharing is illegal, no problem there, but I don't agree that the RIAA is dealing with it in anything near an efficient manner.

No, I could care less about this site and that site, anyways as I said a select few will know what I'm talking about. 8)
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Offline Kamikaze

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #6 on: May 31, 2006, 09:20:09 pm
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Not that it's bad that criminals have been caught WeatherOp

The Pirate Bay operators were not criminals. Swedish law allows for sharing torrent files because they contain no copyrighted data.
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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #7 on: May 31, 2006, 09:24:16 pm
I know that the sites do not hold files, or control what is shared on them Kami, but calling themselves 'The Pirate Bay' really was asking for it in the first place ;)

As far as the law is concerned, well, that'll be sorted out by the courts, but this 'No Retreat, No Surrender' attitude by the RIAA is costing an absolute fortune and achieving nothing, they really should be looking at some kind of compromise before they start wasting more money than they are saving the Industry.
 

Offline BlackDove

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #8 on: May 31, 2006, 09:35:01 pm
Who cares about Pirate Bay? Dozens of other sites out there. Pirate Bay stood for the public "**** You" To copyright owners, but its search terms were abysmal, which made me never use it.

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Offline redsniper

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #9 on: May 31, 2006, 10:00:42 pm
Heck, I still miss suprnova. :(
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Offline Turambar

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #10 on: May 31, 2006, 10:32:42 pm
i really did like piratebay's "**** you RIAA" attitude
it was amusing.

i'd click on one of their links to support them, but all those torrent ads are always full of porno or spyware...
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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #11 on: May 31, 2006, 11:19:59 pm
 

Offline TrashMan

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #12 on: June 01, 2006, 02:46:33 am
was that a crappy movie or what...

And yeah...bummber.
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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #13 on: June 01, 2006, 02:53:04 am
We ought to have a competition to put a quote to that....

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Offline Fury

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #14 on: June 01, 2006, 02:55:51 am
Rictor, that picture is from the Dungeons and Dragons movie, right? :p ****ty movie it was.
 

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #15 on: June 01, 2006, 02:57:22 am
Quote from: WeatherOp on May 31, 2006, 09:13:58 pm
Wooot!!!

Ummm, nevermind that statement, a select few know what I'm talking about. 1 down. :drevil:

I know exactly what you're on about and although I'm 100% against the RIAA I've got to admit I had exactly the same thought :D
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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #16 on: June 01, 2006, 02:59:16 am
You know, during the filming of that movie there was a stunt where an axe was supposed to swing down within inches of the hero. The mechanism went off early and instead, it missed him by millimetres, I tell you what, 2 seconds earlier and I'd have given the FX team an Oscar ;)
 

Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #17 on: June 01, 2006, 03:39:54 am
In other news: Hercules cuts off one head of the Hydra, 2 new ones pop up.
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Offline Rictor

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #18 on: June 01, 2006, 11:09:33 am
Quote from: Fury on June 01, 2006, 02:55:51 am
Rictor, that picture is from the Dungeons and Dragons movie, right? :p ****ty movie it was.

Yeah, I just did a Google Image search for "noooooo" and this is what came up. And yes, it was an exceedingly ****ty movie, though it was bad enough that I still have fond memories.
 

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Re: The Pirate Bay raided?
Reply #19 on: June 01, 2006, 11:19:32 am
The girl wizard in it was hot though..
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