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Topic started on 1-2-2008 @ 01:01 PM by oLDWoRLDDiSoRDeR

Pirate Bay: big revenue claims fabricated by prosecutors


arstechnica.com
The Swedish government is aiming its cannons at The Pirate Bay, but the torrent site's administrators say that they don't plan to abandon ship. The charges filed yesterday against The Pirate Bay by Swedish prosecutor Hakan Roswall (coverage at BBC, TorrentFreak) allege that four of the torrent site's administrators are guilty of participating in copyright infringement, and for profit. This filing comes over a year after fifty Swedish law enforcement agents seized The Pirate Bay's servers during
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reply posted on 2-2-2008 @ 07:53 AM by Beachcoma
Well, whatever the results of the trial may be, The Pirate Bay seems pretty sure it won't be going anywhere.

Pirate Bay Says It Can't Be Sunk, Servers Scattered Worldwide
"The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden," the 29-year-old Kolmisoppi said.

Where are the servers?

"It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay," Kolmisoppi said. "They then rent locations and space for them somewhere else. It could be three countries. It could be six countries. We don't want to know because then you'll have a problem shutting them down."


Have you read their blog entry about this charge? Apparently it consists of a 4000 page document (which they've asked people to seed on the torrents, hah)

PS -- who is that in your avatar? Such a lovely smile...

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