Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

Post by gear54rus » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 5:12 AM UTC

draugadrotten wrote: post #47

mrkickling wrote: post #32

The organisation that reported Thepiratebay and therefore is the reason for this raid is called Rättighetsalliansen (The Alliance of Rights). The Alliance of Rights is the same organisation as The Anti Pirate Bureau but with a new name. This is what they say on their website (roughly translated): "The police raided The Pirate Bay today inside an Internet company in the Stockholm region. Rättighetsalliansen is behind…

It's a common mistake by techies to think that technical details make a difference in (Swedish) court. They don't. Technical details are rarely important in Swedish court, where the court is free to consider all evidence, even if it's obtained illegally or just is weird. So called "technical evidence" is rarely "technical" for techies. It's often just HTTP logfile print-outs or a screen shot of a file sharing program…

Post by thaumasiotes » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 6:35 AM UTC

LLWM wrote: post #72

hasenj wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technicalities aside. They're still making money by helping people "pirate" stuff. Assuming ads on their site do actually generate revenue, and that revenue gets forwarded to them. Though I kinda expect the average piratebay user to have adblock installed.

Whether they are making money doesn't matter. Crimes aren't suddenly legal just because you do them for reasons besides profit. Otherwise the only murderers in jail would be professional assassins.

Post by Thimothy » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 7:37 AM UTC

gargantian wrote: post #79

In an internet-ubiquitous world, the idea of restricting the flow of data -- any data -- is basically a magical fantasy of those who understand neither the technology nor its sociology. The Pirate Bay will be back in a day or two tops. I wonder how much longer people will keep trying to put the information genie back in the bottle?

Post by psykovsky » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 8:14 AM UTC

elektor wrote: post #111

psykovsky wrote: post #101

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You need some help.

Post by arenaninja » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 8:58 AM UTC

eyeareque wrote: post #94

arenaninja wrote: post #56

Funnily enough, for the past year I've been using TPB pretty much for finding very specific versions of Linux distros

Do they come with very specific pieces of malware too? kidding aside, I hope you check the ISO checksums.