SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO

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 the police report yesterdays raid is targeted at ThePirateBay.org, but here Henrik Pontén says that the target is Piratbyrån, a place to think and make up plans and a forum for copyright critical matters. Should we interpretate this like when the Movie Association sees uncomfortable thoughts, then you make sure that an it-incompetent police does the clean up? What happened to the freedom of speech? And what is the purpose to confiscate servers belonging to hundreds of small buisnesses, associations and individuals, that has done nothing wrong at all?

“Piratbyrån" Has been lobbying for an open debate regarding copywriting and patent matters. We are very upset over that the movie industry does not dare take the debate, but instead tries to fool politicians and police into criminalize a large portion of the Swedish population.

Follow The Money. 10 will get you 20 that a LARGE $$$ backdoor contribution from the RIAA/MPAA mafia to the pockets of some swedish politicians and/or police authorities got that job done when all else failed

ThePirateBay.com is a so called pirate “tracker” that directs people to pirated movies and music, making available over 157,000 illegal files including the latest blockbuster releases such as Da Vinci Code, Mission Impossible: III, and The Poseidon Adventure and many others. The Pirate Bay’s takedown today represents a growing culture of respect for intellectual property in Sweden, which in July 2005 reformed its copyright law
to address digital piracy. Various rights-holders have sent countless cease-and-desist letters to The Pirate Bay, requesting that its operators remove pirated content from the site, and have been met with mockery and scorn, such as the operators posting the letters and their replies on thepiratebay.com.

They have successfully raised the funds to purchase the desired 3 million ballots, and are in the pre-campaign phase, building the last parts of the nationwide campaign organization.

On May 31st the facility hosting The Pirate Bay was raided by police who confiscated servers hosting The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån and several other unrelated sites. Due to this event, the number of members of the party quickly rose. Membership count had continually seen about ten new members every day, but the aforementioned raid by the police led to more than 500 new members by the end of the day, with a membership count of 2680. The next day had another 930 people register membership, for a total of 3610 members. That meant the number of members rose about 70% during those two days.