Today, 2006-05-31, the swedish incompetent police raided Rix|Port80 (that´s where The Pirate Bay (TPB) is hosted.
According to the rumors there was around 50 cops there to take away The Pirate Bay server and some other servers that Rix|Port80 hosted.
To me it is unknown how the **** 50 cops can have find the time to raid TPB instead of capturing the criminals that make sweden a unsafe place to be. People in sweden, especially girls/women and older ppl. are afraid to be out late, they get raped, robbed, assaulted, killed and so on. It just don´t happen to older ppl. or women it happens to everyone. The cops say all the time that they don´t have enough to handle everything, to cover for all the crimes...
No wonder they don´t have enough cops to cover it since they are more busy to run around trying to catch ppl. that are downloading. This shows for sure that the big anti-piracy organisations control the cops.
Damn, i get so mad i don´t even know what to write.
Here i quote the message you get when you try to enter The Pirate Bay (TPB) or Piratbyrån (PB):
"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 rack where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the rack were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the rack, 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."
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(*Antipiratbyrån is the name of the swedish anti-piracy agency.)