Thursday, June 01, 2006

SITE DOWN

In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.

According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.

The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.

The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.
[Via:ThePirateBay]

What a bad news for me!!

posted by Administrator @ 5:00 PM

1 Comments:

At 6/02/2006 08:11:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Pirate Bay is not dead!
Reports of the Pirate Bay's demise have been vigorously denied by its owners.

The P2P outfit was shut down by Swedish National Criminal Police a couple of days ago amid claims that it was in breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

However, this morning Pirate Bay poured cold water on that idea, saying that it would be up and running again within a week.

The search warrant issued by the police only allows them to secure evidence of any allegations of copyright breaches. Pirate Bay said it had been assured that the take-down notice was 'normal' and it could get compensation for the time that the servers are down.

It almost seems that Pirate Bay is itching to get itself to court and test its legal rights under Swedish Law. The outfit has been one of the more public of pirate operations. It has worked on the reasoning that the site's function was to direct users towards the files that they search for and manage the uploads and downloads. The website itself did not hold any copyright files.

 

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