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===The Beijing Olympics===
In an official letter to Swedish Minister of Justice, the International Olympic Committee has asked for assistance from the Swedish government with preventing video clips from the Beijing Olympics to be shared on The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay, however, does not plan to take anything down, and renamed their tracker to The Beijing Bay.


==Other projects==
==Other projects==

Revision as of 07:01, 19 August 2008

The Pirate Bay
Type of site
Torrent index
OwnerGottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde
Created byGottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde
RevenueAdvertisements
URLhttp://thepiratebay.org/
RegistrationFree

The Pirate Bay (often abbreviated TPB) is a Swedish website that serves as an index for .torrent files that it tracks. It bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" and is ranked 91 (as of 16 July, 2008) in the Alexa ranking list and ranked 258 (as of 1 February 2008) by Quantcast.[1] [2] Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån ("The Piracy Bureau"), it has been operating as a separate organization since October 2004. The site is currently run by Gottfrid Svartholm ("anakata"), Fredrik Neij ("TiAMO") and Peter Sunde ("brokep").[citation needed]

The Pirate Bay is known as one of the world's largest facilitators of illegal downloading, and has been described as "the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright — or pro-piracy — movement."[3]

On 31 May 2006, the site's servers, located in Stockholm, were raided by Swedish police, causing it to go offline for three days. Upon reopening, the site's number of visitors more than doubled,[4] the increased popularity attributed to greater exposure through the media coverage. The raid, alleged by Pirate Bay to be politically motivated and under pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA),[5] was reported as a success by the MPAA in the immediate aftermath, but with the site being restored within days and the raising of the debate in Swedish culture, The Pirate Bay and other commentators considered the raid "highly unsuccessful".[6] On 31 January 2008, Swedish prosecutors filed charges against four of the individuals behind The Pirate Bay for "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws".[7][8]

Website and servers

The Pirate Bay website allows users to search for and download BitTorrent files ("torrents"), small files that contain machine-readable information necessary to download the data files from other users. The torrents are organized in the categories: Audio, Video, Software applications, Games, Music and, for registered users only, Pornography. Registration requires an email address and is free; registered users may upload their own torrents and add comments to torrent descriptions. Downloading of data files from other users is facilitated by the BitTorrent trackers that also run on Pirate Bay servers.

Old setup

The Pirate Bay's four Linux servers used to run a custom httpd called Hypercube. On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of the four web servers, as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the front-end of the website.

Current setup

Currently TPB runs Lighttpd and PHP on its dynamic front ends, MySQL and MySQL-proxy on the two database back ends, Sphinx on the search system, Memcache for caching SQL queries and PHP-sessions, and Varnish in front of Lighttpd for caching static content. TPB currently consists of 24 dedicated servers including six dynamic web fronts, two databases and eight BitTorrent trackers.

Old information on the hardware used by TPB can be found here along with some images taken before the raid.

Trackers

On 7 December 2007, The Pirate Bay finished the move from Hypercube to Opentracker as its BitTorrent tracking software, also enabling the use of the UDP tracker protocol that Hypercube lacked support for. It is reported that their trackers currently (December 2007) answer about 17,000 announce requests per second.

Security

Recently, The Pirate Bay announced that their servers would support SSL encryption, in response to Sweden's new wiretapping law.[9] However, this method is not completely effective, because the static content size can be indexed and used to guess the visitor's activity.[10]

Funding

According to The Pirate Bay's blog, Petter Nilsson donated 35,000 SEK to help support the torrent tracker.[11] Nilsson was a candidate on the Swedish reality show Toppkandidaterna (The Top Candidates), on which young contestants were given the opportunity to experience politics firsthand. The contestants competed at convincing others of the value of their ideas. The winner of the contest then spent their prize money in the pursuit of these ideals. Nilsson won the contest and donated 25.1% of his winnings to The Pirate Bay, which they used to buy new servers.

In April 2007, a long-standing rumour was confirmed on Swedish talk show Bert, namely that Pirate Bay had also received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some furor since Lundström, an heir to the Wasabröd fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like Sverigedemokraterna and Bevara Sverige Svenskt (Keep Sweden Swedish). The size of Lundström's contributions is unknown, as are his motives. In the talk show, Pirate Bay speaker Tobias Andersson acknowledged that "without Lundström's support, Pirate Bay would not have been able to start" and claimed that most of the money went towards acquiring servers and bandwidth.[12][13][14] Both Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån have since declined to comment on Lundström's involvement.

As of June 2006, the website was financed through advertisements on their result pages. According to speculations by Svenska Dagbladet, the advertisements generated about US$75,000 per month directly after the raid.[15] The Pirate Shop, an online merchandise shop is not owned by The Pirate Bay but Piratbyrån. The Pirate Bay promotes the shop so that Piratbyrån can make money for its work. They no longer accept any donations.[citation needed]

Investigations by some journalists suggest that the site is making money on a level that far exceeds its operating costs. This leads some to opine that the Pirate Bay is more engaged in making profit than supporting people's rights.[16][17][18] Operators of the site have insisted that these allegations are not true, stating, "It's not free to operate a Web site on this scale," and, "If we were making lots of money I wouldn't be working late at the office tonight, I'd be sitting on a beach somewhere, working on my tan."[19] In response to claims of annual revenue exceeding $3 million made by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Peter Sunde argues that the site's high bandwidth, power, and hardware costs eliminate the potential for profit. The Pirate Bay, he says, may ultimately be operating at a loss.[20]. No figures have been publicly released by Pirate Bay, however, to support these claims.

May 2006 police raid

The raid

Wikinews has related news:
People in Stockholm protesting against the raid. 3 June 2006.
The new ThePirateBay.org logo instituted the morning of 3 June 2006 and taken down shortly after. The pirate ship in the Pirate Bay logo also bears the Home Taping Is Killing Music logo.

At around 11 a.m. UTC[21] on 31 May 2006, a major raid against The Pirate Bay and people involved with the site took place, prompted by allegations of copyright violations. Some 65 police officers participated in the raid, shutting down the site and confiscating its servers, as well as all other servers hosted by The Pirate Bay's ISP, PRQ Inet. PRQ is owned by two of the current operators of The Pirate Bay.

Three people, Gottfrid Svartholm, Mikael Viborg, and Fredrik Neij, were held by the police for questioning, but were released later in the evening. Mikael Viborg, the legal adviser to The Pirate Bay, was arrested at his apartment, brought in for questioning, forced to submit a DNA sample and had his electronic equipment seized.[22]

All servers in the server room were seized, including those running the website of Piratbyrån, an independent organization fighting for file-sharing rights, as well as servers unrelated to The Pirate Bay or other filesharing activities like a Russian opposition news agency.[23] In addition, other equipment was also seized, such as hardware routers, switches, blank CDs, and faxes regarding air conditioning.

The Danish documentary Good Copy Bad Copy (2007) includes CCTV camera footage of the raid, and interviews with Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij about the raid and its aftermath.

Political issues

The Swedish public broadcast network, Sveriges Television cited unnamed sources claiming that the raid was prompted by political pressure from the United States, which the Swedish government denies. Specifically, the claim is that the Swedish government was threatened with WTO trade sanctions unless action was taken against The Pirate Bay.[24]

There have been claims of ministerstyre (lit. "minister rule", when a politician pressures another government agency to take action, which is unconstitutional in Sweden) in connection with this allegation.[6] A letter titled "Re: The Pirate Bay" from the MPAA to Dan Eliasson, the Swedish State Secretary, was dated two months before the raid and hinted at trade reprisals ("It is certainly not in Sweden's best interests to earn a reputation as a place where utter lawlessness is tolerated") and urged him to "exercise your influence to urge law enforcement officers in Sweden to take much needed action against The Pirate Bay".[25]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) wrote in a press release: "Since filing a criminal complaint in Sweden in November 2004, the film industry has worked vigorously with Swedish and U.S. government officials in Sweden to shut this illegal site down." MPAA CEO Dan Glickman also stated, "Intellectual property theft is a problem for film industries all over the world and we are glad that the local government in Sweden has helped stop The Pirate Bay from continuing to enable rampant copyright theft on the Internet."[26]

The MPAA release set forth its justification for the raid and claimed that there were three arrests; however, the individuals were not actually arrested, only held for questioning. The release also reprinted John G. Malcolm's allegation that The Pirate Bay was making money from the distribution of copyrighted material, a criticism denied by the Pirate Bay.

Aftermath

After the raid, The Pirate Bay displayed a "SITE DOWN" message confirming that Swedish police had executed search warrants for breach of copyright law or assisting such a breach. The BitTorrent community quickly spread the announcement across online news sites, blogs, and discussion forums. The closure message initially caused some confusion because on 1 April 2005 The Pirate Bay had posted a similar message, stating that they were permanently down due to a supposed raid by the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau and IFPI, as a prank. Piratbyrån set up a temporary news blog to inform the public about the incident.[27]

On 1 June 2006, it was reported on ThePirateBay.org that the site would be up and fully functional within a day or two. As promised, The Pirate Bay was back up and operational by the end of the next day, their logo now depicting the pirate ship firing cannon balls at the Hollywood sign. The header displayed the name The Police Bay. The next logo featured the pirate ship as a stylized phoenix, in reference to the servers rising up again after the raid.

The reincarnated website was, as stated by "Peter" in the Chaosradio International interview with Tim Pritlove,[28] running on servers located in the Netherlands. As of 3 June, the search function was not available. It was possible to browse for .torrent files manually and download them, but attempts at downloading .torrent files for most copyrighted materials gave 404 Not Found errors. On 5 June 2006, The Pirate Bay went down, citing database server problems. It was back up the next day, but with limited availability. The Pirate Bay attributed these issues to increased traffic resulting from the recent publicity, and promised that the site would soon be running smoothly again. TPB thereafter fixed a number of minor software bugs and brought new servers online to handle the increased traffic load.[29] By 9 June, the site was once again fully functional. On 14 June 2006, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that The Pirate Bay was back in Sweden due to "pressure from the Department of Justice [in the Netherlands]."[30]

During the afternoon of 1 June, again on 3 June, and again in the morning of 4 June, the website of the Swedish police[31] went down due to high load. It was speculated that this was a retaliatory denial of service attack in response to the TPB raid. According to a Swedish article in the IT news site IDG, the downtime resulted from many requests for a specific url—which had been widely circulated via IRC chatrooms and internet forums.[32] According to the article, the purpose was to "show what you think of the police's behaviour."[33]

Demonstrations against the police action took place on 3 June 2006 in Gothenburg and Stockholm, organized by Piratbyrån and the Pirate Party in collaboration with the Liberal Youth League, Green Youth and Young Left parties. There were no reports of violence. Approximately 500–600 people showed up at the Stockholm protest and about 300 at the Gothenburg protest.

The Pirate Bay is considered part of an international anti-copyright — or pro-piracy — movement.[34] The documentary Steal This Film was produced and distributed (via BitTorrent) in the months following the raid. In the words of its speakers, it aimed to present the other side of the debate, until that time dominated by the media industry. The film was made available free, as donationware.

Since the raid, Pirate Bay stated their disaster recovery plan of "a few days" worked correctly, but that they are now moving to redundant servers both in Belgium and Russia, and an aim of a few hours restoration time, should the servers be disrupted again.

Increase in users and size

Following the raid the number of Pirate Bay users grew from 1 million to 2.7 million. The number of peers grew almost 5 times, from 2.5 million to 12 million.[35] It has been reported that the Pirate Bay claims more than 5 million active users. Internet traffic ranker Alexa.com ranks Pirate Bay as the 292nd most popular site in the world.[36]

Charges

Main article: File sharing and the law

In May 2007, prosecutor Håkan Roswall made it clear that he intends to press charges against the administrators of The Pirate Bay.[37]

In mid-January 2008 Peter Sunde told Ars Technica: "I'm quite sure we won't be convicted anyhow" and "[If we are], we'll just appeal all the way to the European Union court. So in five years time this might be settled."[38]

On 31 January 2008, Pirate Bay operators Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were charged with "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws."[7] If convicted, the defendants face up to two years in prison and SEK 1.2 million in restitution.[39]

Pirate Bay's legal adviser, Mikael Viborg, has stated that because torrent files and trackers merely point to content, the site's activities are legal under Swedish law. Magnus Martensson, legal adviser for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, says the site is damaging to industry and liable for at least contributory copyright infringement.[40]

Allegations of police conflict of interest

Soon after the police investigation of The Pirate Bay finished in 2008, the lead investigator, Jim Keyzer, according to Keyzer's since-deleted Facebook profile, left the police force briefly to work for MPAA member studio Warner Brothers.[41][42] Sydsvenskan reported that Keyzer had already been working for the studio while the investigation into The Pirate Bay was still open.[43]

An April 2008 pirate party press release called the potential conflict of interest a "bribing scandal".[44] Piratbyrån wrote about the allegations:

If the trial wasn't already just a political theatre, this clearly shows that this is not a fair and balanced trial. The copyright industry stands no chance in an objective legal judgement and therefore have to cheat their way forward. Their legitimacy has hit rock bottom[45]

These matters have not yet been resolved in court.

Other notable events

May 2007 attacks

In May of 2007, The Pirate Bay was hacked by a "known" group of people.[46] They managed to successfully steal a copy of the user database, which included over one and a half million users. The Pirate Bay reassured its users that the data was of no value and that passwords and e-mails were encrypted and hashed. Certain blogs stated that a group known as the AUH (Arga Unga Hackare, Swedish for "Angry Young Hackers") were suspected in the attack; however the AUH stated through an article on Computer Sweden that they were not involved and would take revenge on those responsible for the attack.[47]

Ladonia, Sealand and the ACFI

On 26 June 2006, TPB supported the "Armed Coalition Forces of the Internets" [sic] against the Swedish micronation of Ladonia. In January 2007, when the micronation of Sealand was put up for "sale", the ACFI and TPB tried to buy it. However, they could not buy the man-made platform because the Sealand government did not want to sell to TPB. A plan B was made, to buy an island instead, but this too was never implemented, despite the site having raised $20,000 in donations.

Leak of MediaDefender emails

In September 2007, 700MB of content, including a large number of internal emails, were leaked from anti-piracy company MediaDefender. Some of the leaked emails discussed hiring "hackers" to perform DoS attacks on The Pirate Bay's servers and trackers.[48]

In response to the leak, The Pirate Bay filed charges in Sweden against alleged MediaDefender clients Twentieth Century Fox Sweden AB, EMI Sweden AB, Universal Music Group Sweden AB, Universal Pictures Nordic AB, Paramount Home Entertainment (Sweden) AB, Atari Nordic AB, Activision Nordic, Ubisoft Sweden AB, Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Sweden) AB and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic AB.[49][50]

MediaDefender's stocks fell sharply and numerous media companies withdrew from the service[failed verification] after the company announced the leak had caused $825,000 in losses.[51]

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde accused police investigator Jim Keyzer of further conflict of interest in declining to investigate MediaDefender. Keyzer had later accepted a job for MPAA member studio Warner Brothers.[52]. The leaked emails revealed that other MPAA member studios had hired MediaDefender to pollute The Pirate Bay's torrent database, contradicting the MPAA's earlier claim that its member studios were not MediaDefender clients.

Acquisition and loss of IFPI.com domain name

On 12 October 2007, TorrentFreak.com reported that the Internet domain IFPI.com, which had previously belonged to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, an anti-piracy organization, had been acquired by The Pirate Bay. When asked about how they got hold of the domain, Sunde told TorrentFreak, "It's not a hack, someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it's ours and we're keeping it." The site was renamed "The International Federation of Pirates Interests."[53] However, the IFPI filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) shortly thereafter, who subsequently ordered The Pirate Bay to return the domain name to the IFPI.[54]

In February 2008, a Danish court ordered the Danish Internet service provider Tele2 to cut off its customers' access to The Pirate Bay. The case has been appealed.[55]

Web Sheriff lawsuit threats

On 15 February 2008, E24 Näringsliv reported that the British anti-piracy firm Web Sheriff intended to file lawsuits in the United States and Sweden against The Pirate Bay on behalf of Prince, the Village People, Van Morrison and the estate of Chet Baker. Lars Sandberg, Web Sheriff's local counsel in Sweden, told E24 that Web Sheriff had not yet determined whether to sue the individuals or the companies that are associated with the site. Peter Sunde dismisses the threats as relying on American law inapplicable in Sweden.[56][57]

Art performance for Manifesta

According to Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay is a long-running project of performance art.[58] On February 22 2008, the logo of The Pirate Bay was changed from a pirate ship into a pirate bus to announce the partaking in an art project which Piratbyrån has been commissioned to do for the international art biennale Manifesta. This art project is said to include a bus trip, a party, an installation and a statement by Piratbyrån.[59]

The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy

On August 10, 2008, the front page of The Pirate Bay had a notice informing its visitors that the website and its IP-addresses were now blocked in Italy after a court ruling[60]. The message was changed to link to the relevant blog article[61] after a few hours. As a countermeasure they created http://labaia.org so users in Italy could still access the site.

The Beijing Olympics

In an official letter to Swedish Minister of Justice, the International Olympic Committee has asked for assistance from the Swedish government with preventing video clips from the Beijing Olympics to be shared on The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay, however, does not plan to take anything down, and renamed their tracker to The Beijing Bay.

Other projects

The team behind the Pirate Bay have embarked on a number of other websites, including BayImg, an uncensored image host (similar to Photobucket) [62] and a video-sharing website to be called The Video Bay, possibly similar to the video-sharing service YouTube.[63] Another one of their projects is SlopsBox, a disposable e-mail address service. The Slopsbox domain has been down since April 30, 2008 for unknown reasons.[64] On 16 April 2008 they opened Baywords, an uncensored blogging service. They also promote the general license known as kopimi that not only grants everyone the right to copy but that also explicitly encourages everyone to do so. They have also recently relaunched Suprnova.org which has the same effect as The Pirate Bay but uses different torrent trackers.

BOiNK

Boink was The Pirate Bay's solution to the raid on Oink's Pink Palace. Sunde announced on 26 October 2007 that the site would be ready to go within a few days time.[65] On 24 November 2007, Sunde stated on his blog that he has decided to cancel BOiNK seeing as many new sites have popped-up since the downfall of OiNK.[66]

SuprBay

SuprBay.org is a community forum led by SuprNova.org (taken down and MiniNova.org started; later SuprNova re-made) and The Pirate Bay. The news was given unofficially on TorrentFreak.com on 2 August 2007,[67] as soon as the news was out, members started to join. On 6 August 2007 the news jumped to Digg[68][69] making the front page, which helped to make the forum known to those outside of the pirate community.

The Video Bay

The website administrators of The Pirate Bay are also embarking on a website to compete with YouTube and other similar websites. It is said that The Video Bay will host a variety of copyrighted content for free via an embedded media player similar to that of the video player on YouTube.[70]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Traffic statistics from Alexa internet ranking. Traffic Details for thepiratebay.org. Last accessed 16 July, 2008.
  2. ^ thepiratebay.org (rank 255) - Web Site Audience Profiles from Quantcast
  3. ^ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-webscout29apr29,0,1261622.story?coll=la-home-entertainment
  4. ^ http://startupmeme.com/should-piratebay-thank-mpaa-for-its-cult-following/
  5. ^ Per an interview with anakata in the movie Steal This Film
  6. ^ a b "The Pirate Bay Not Impressed by Announced Prosecution". TorrentFreak. 04.05.2007. Retrieved 2007-05-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  7. ^ a b Pirate Bay Future Uncertain After Operators Busted | Threat Level from Wired.com
  8. ^ Linus Larsson, Charges filed against the Pirate Bay four, Computer Sweden, 31 January 2008. Accessed 2008-02-01.
  9. ^ Mennecke, Thomas (06-22-2008). "SSL Encryption Coming to The Pirate Bay". Slyck News. Retrieved 2008-08-10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Pusep, Stanislaw (07-31-2008). "The Pirate Bay un-SSL". Retrieved 2008-08-10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ The Pirate Bay blog entry
  12. ^ The Register: Pirate Bay admits links to
  13. ^ Subtitled excerpt from the talk show on YouTube
  14. ^ Der Spiegel: Piratenseite im Zwielicht
  15. ^ Svenska Dagbladet: Pirate Bay drar in miljonbelopp (Swedish)
  16. ^ Lehti: Pirate Bayn rahavirrassa sveitsiläinen välisatama, digitoday. 2006-07-10. Accessed 2006-09-13. Template:Fi icon Unofficial English translation [1].
  17. ^ TPB Raking in Millions, Rixstep. Accessed 2006-09-13.
  18. ^ Has Pirate Bay Sold Out the BitTorrent Community?, Zeropaid. 2006-07-11. Accessed 2006-07-21.
  19. ^ Daly, Steven. "Pirates of the Multiplex" Vanity Fair March 2007. Accessed 2007-02-14.
  20. ^ "Pirate Bay: big revenue claims fabricated by prosecutors". Ars Technica. 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
  21. ^ This is based on the IRC message "[11:03:49] * neptune has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 192 seconds)"—neptune was the IRC bot of The Pirate Bay. (Timestamp is UTC plus network lag and possible computer clock offset)—#ThePirateBay on EFNet[citation needed]
  22. ^ Blog by Mikael Viborg, 1 June 2006
  23. ^ Per the 1 June 2006 message posted on the home page of ThePirateBay.org: "The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the Pirate Bay 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."
  24. ^ "USA-hot bakom fildelningsrazzia", article in Swedish from Dagens Nyheter
  25. ^ http://torrentfreak.com//images/pirate_mpa.pdf (PDF scan of original letter)
  26. ^ "Swedish authorities sink Pirate Bay" (PDF) (Press release). Motion Picture Association of America. 2006-05-31. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  27. ^ [2] (Swedish language). Unofficial English translations are available at [3] and [4]
  28. ^ mp3 file of the interview
  29. ^ Pirate Bay Bloodied But Unbowed, Wired News, Accessed 2006-06-09.
  30. ^ Svenska Dagbladet:The Pirate Bay tillbaka i Sverige (Swedish)
  31. ^ http://www.polisen.se/
  32. ^ Polisens hemsida utsatt för överbelastningsattack - uppdaterad - IDG.se
  33. ^ Online newspaper article on dn.se (Swedish)
  34. ^ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-webscout29apr29,0,1261622.story?coll=la-home-entertainment
  35. ^ http://startupmeme.com/should-piratebay-thank-mpaa-for-its-cult-following/
  36. ^ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-webscout29apr29,0,1261622.story?coll=la-home-entertainment
  37. ^ Chris Williams, Prosecutor sets date for Pirate Bay showdown, The Register, 13 November 2007. Accessed 2007-11-27.
  38. ^ Swedish prosecutors dump 4,000 legal docs on The Pirate Bay Ars Technica, accessed on August 5, 2008
  39. ^ "Pirate Bay hit with legal action". BBC News. 2008-01-31. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  40. ^ Harrison, Ann (2006-03-13). "The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?". Wired. Retrieved 2008-06-21. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  41. ^ Blog post from Kopit, the first to report about the incident Template:Sv icon
  42. ^ Slashdot about the bribing controversy
  43. ^ Kuprijanko, Alexander (2008-06-04). "Åter från Warner till polisjobbet". Sydsvenskan. Retrieved 2008-06-16. Template:Sv icon
  44. ^ PRESSMEDDELANDE: Mutskandal i Pirate Bay-målet - UD bör protestera | Piratpartiet
  45. ^ http://static.thepiratebay.org/pm/20080418_eng.txt
  46. ^ The Pirate Bay - Le plus grand tracker BitTorrent du monde
  47. ^ The Pirate Bay Infiltrated « Power of Thought
  48. ^ The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public | TorrentFreak
  49. ^ The Pirate Bay - Le plus grand tracker BitTorrent du monde
  50. ^ Pirate Bay till attack mot skiv- och filmbranschen
  51. ^ MediaDefender Stock Plunges Due to Leaked Emails | TorrentFreak
  52. ^ Peter Sunde (one of the prosecuted in the case against TPB) blog entry about Jim Keyzer Template:Sv icon
  53. ^ TorrentFreak.com, Anti-Piracy Organization Domain IFPI.com Now Owned by The Pirate Bay, 2007-12-10.
  54. ^ Mennecke, Thomas (2007-11-30). "The Pirate Bay Loses IFPI.com Domain". Slyck. Retrieved 2007-12-08. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  55. ^ Computerworld Denmark's English language site on the legal attempts to shut off access to The Pirate Bay
  56. ^ Sokolow, Irene (2008-02-15). "Prince stämmer Pirate Bay". online edition (in Swedish). Stockholm, Sweden: E24.se. Retrieved 2008-02-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  57. ^ Söderling, Fredrik (February 15, 2008). "Prince stämmer Pirate Bay". online edition (in Swedish). Stockholm, Sweden: Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
  58. ^ All your bus are belong to us!
  59. ^ Upgrade Your Bus to Art!
  60. ^ "The Pirate Bay Blocked in Italy". TorrentFreak. 08-09-08. Retrieved 2008-08-09. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  61. ^ "Fascist state censors Pirate Bay". The Pirate Bay. 08-09-08. Retrieved 2008-08-09. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  62. ^ The Pirate Bay - Le plus grand tracker BitTorrent du monde
  63. ^ closed project
  64. ^ Slopsbox - Fight the spam
  65. ^ The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK | TorrentFreak
  66. ^ Instead of confusion, music | Copy me happy
  67. ^ "The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org". TorrentFreak. 2007-08-02. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
  68. ^ "The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org". Digg. 2007-08-02. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
  69. ^ "The Pirate Bay Now Has a Forum". Digg. 2007-08-06. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
  70. ^ Under the Hood of The Pirate Bay’s New Video Site « NewTeeVee

References

Letters and memos

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2006-06-03 pirate demonstration in Sweden.
  • Letter from John G. Malcolm, Executive Vice President of the MPA, to the former State Secretary, Dan Eliasson:[1]
  • Response from Dan Eliasson:[2]
  • The Swedish Governments "orders" to the authorities (in Swedish):[3]
  • Håkan Roswalls (prosecutor) memo (in Swedish):[4] (pdf)

Articles


  1. ^ http://svt.se/content/1/c6/61/24/40/pirate_mpa.pdf
  2. ^ http://svt.se/content/1/c6/61/24/40/pirate_justit.pdf
  3. ^ Uppdrag
  4. ^ http://svt.se/content/1/c6/61/24/40/piratebay_aklagarpm.pdf
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