June 4th, 2006
Swedish Police Probing Retaliations (?) After The Pirate Bay Shut Down
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
If you use P2P you may have heard of The Pirate Bay. It has described itself as the largest search index for BitTorrent. Last week it was shut down by Swedish police last Sunday when 200 servers were seized in 10 raids on Wednesday. Since then both the government’s web site (today) and the national police’s web site (Thursday) were brought down with what appeared to be DoS attacks.
“They (the government) contacted us and wanted to make a police complaint that something has happened with their home page and it is now a question for us investigate if it is a crime or something else,” said Anders Thornberg, a spokesman for the Security Police intelligence agency.
Local media said hackers attacked both sites, now functioning again, after the clampdown on Pirate Bay. Several hundred people demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday in support of Pirate Bay. Source: Reuters
We Say: I’m certainly not going to say I approve of piracy, as I don’t, but this is certainly humorous, because The Pirate Bay is already back up (though in The Netherlands, now). It also doesn’t require any “investigation” on my part to see the 3 events are related. 
Vincent - Supporter of TPB says:
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Pressrelease: The Bureau of Piracy (Piratbyrån) decline responsibility for the internet attacks!
PRESSRELEASE 060604
FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLISHING
THE BUREAU OF PIRACY (PIRATBYRÅN) DECLINE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INTERNET ATTACKS!
The last days authorities and other institutions homepages has suffered from DDOS attacks. Piratbyrån declines involement in this type of destructive actions.
- Attacks of this sort which we have seen here is not only attacks against individual homepages, it is an attack of the internet as a whole, says Marcin de Kaminski from The Bureau of Piracy (Piratbyrån). It is not a worthy reaction to what have happened the last couple of days.
The Bureau of Piracy (Piratbyråns) activities is building on an advocate for communication, information exchange and a free internet. Therefore we are very worried about the fact that our homepage, toghether with many others, got shut down the way they did. We encourage everybody that would like to help us, the Pirate Bay and other affected to report the wednesdays police actions to JO (a political representative). We also encourage the affected to demand thier servers back, and to demand compensation for possible loss of hardware, information and income.
- If you want to help The Bureau of Piracy (Piratbyrån) you do best so by continuing using the internet in a creative way, says Marcin de Kaminski. And other than that, to buy bigger HDDs and to help your mom, your neighbour and your friends from work to fileshare!
June 4th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Sean Brody says:
For every 100 geniuses working on copy protection, there are 1000 geniuses working to crack it.
June 4th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Ran Kailie says:
Yar! Tis a pirates life fer me!
June 5th, 2006 at 9:51 am
OMAC says:
It’s funny. In the past 2 months we have seen a spamwar and the loss of Blue Frog and now this Pirate Bay shutdown. I would wager that if you ask people what they would rather see the authorities deal with, spam would be the overwhelming choice. I would also wager that spam costs much much more than piracy ever will in lost bandwidth, time wasted wading through spam and the monetary loss due to scams and illegal pharmecutical websites. As far as I am concerned the authorities should stop pandering to political pressure and deal with the real internet criminals.
June 5th, 2006 at 8:38 pm