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The Pirate Bay Plans A Return
David Utter
Staff Writer
2006-06-02
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Even as the entertainment industry congratulates itself over the raids in Sweden that shut down the notorious BitTorrent search engine, plans to have it back up and running in a few days are under way.
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Give it a day or two, and Pirate Bay should be online and active again. Already, new hardware is being maneuvered into position to relaunch the site, even as investigators search for evidence that the Pirate Bay has been breaking the law.
Pictures of the aftermath of the raid show emptied server racks and dangling Cat-5 wires where the hardware used to be positioned. The datacenter operated by hosting company PRQ has been returning to life.
"The PRQ datacenter has been raided by the Swedish police," said a statement posted by PRQ. "All servers and network equipment was seized in an act of blatant abuse of power by public prosecutor Håkan Roswall."
Chris Adams, director of GameSwitch, saw his company's servers go offline when the police raids began taking place. He emailed to confirm that the police seized between 200 and 300 servers, the majority of which belonged to other domains and were marked as such.
At issue is the contention by the entertainment industry that tracker sites like Pirate Bay are as culpable in piracy as those who host copyrighted material like songs and movies. The Pirate Bay has regularly claimed its search service operates legally under Swedish law.
Its presence as the dominant torrent tracker drew the ire of many in the entertainment industry. Lawyers fired off letters demanding Pirate Bay shut down. Pirate Bay responded to these letters by reposting them online, mocking the senders, and defending their right to operate.
Sweden had been under international pressure to act on complaints about Pirate Bay. Under Swedish law, the Pirate Bay claims it can seek restitution from the state if its investigation finds the operation functioned legally.
One has to wonder if there are agreements in place to indemnify the Swedish government if these raids prove to have been for nuisance purposes, given Pirate Bay's contention it has a legal operation in the country.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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