Sweden’s ‘biggest ever’ piracy bust
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Swedish police, acting as taxpayer funded copyright cops for, and on behalf of, Antipiratbyrån, a private corporate entertainment industry lobby group, are well pleased with themselves.
A, “raid took place during the recent high profile Pirate Bay trial,” says The Local.
During it, a server containing “the largest quantity of pirated material ever discovered in Sweden” was seized, claims AntpiratbyrÃ¥n,
The server was part of a Nordic file sharing ring known as Sunnydale, says the story, going on:
“The confiscated computer contained data equivalent to 16,000 movies, making it the biggest ever seizure in the country, says the story, quoting newspaper Svenska Dagbladet as saying AntipiratbyrÃ¥n, “claimed that the Sunnydale ring was the source of all pirated material available on The Pirate Bay”.
However, the story has TPB’s Peter Sunde saying more than 800,000 people had uploaded to his site, “so I don’t believe it’s the source of everything,” although, “it is possible that it’s a major source,” he told Svenska Dagbladet.
Meanwhile, “One of the people suspected of responsibility for the server has admitted to some degree of involvement, according to the Anti-Piracy Agency, which said police were continuing with their investigations to trace the identities of those operating the server,” adds The Local.
The Local – Police in ‘biggest ever’ piracy raid, March 6, 2009
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March 9th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Propaganda piece.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Oh yes lets all cheer as the corporations kick in your door with guns to threaten your life and take your property because supposedly you have their “property”.
Death to the thugs at the RIAA, MPAA, CIRA, GEMA. IFPI, SGAE, and all the other corporate jocks and thieves. The world would be much better off without any of them burning threw everyone else’s air.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Don’t be surprised if you see a story later saying that they got a “confession” from the “Sunnydale thieves” where they “admit” to having a “paid partnership” with TPB.
I dunno, it’s just the kind of thing my “conspiracy-fixated” mind expects right about now.
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March 9th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I’m curious about the phrase “was the source of all pirated material available on The Pirate Bay”.
This ISN’T how Bittorrent works. It isn’t an FTP server, newsgroup or a direct download site.
I call shenanigans. This is nothing but a puff piece that is trying to ride on the back of a trial that went quite badly for the prosecution.
The more they lie, the more they insist on insulting my intelligence, the less likely I’m ever to return to funding their cartels.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
1st off let me tell you the FACTS
they GOT ONE SERVER, 9 others went down to “protect themselves”
the total space allotment on all ten is estimated at 65GB , THAT doesn’t mean there are 65 TB os stuff there now or ever was.
and i highly doubt its the source of “all” for anything
hundreds and hundreds of those exist.
you remove them you take out several companies totally.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
In the past, it has been shown that the server site they were after to locate info on TPB, was purposely fed copyrighted works so they could be sure there would be material there which was theirs and could therefore point to copyright infringement. They didn’t take a chance, they made sure it was there.
So somewhere in the back of my mind, I wonder about the timely execution of this “bust”. It’s too convenient and too neatly timed to just be happenstance. I gather they feel like they may not have a strong enough case with TPB and are trying to leave nothing to chance. This bust isn’t on trial. There’s no sworn testimony that is going to come out of it to either aid nor play against TPB other than a sort of slanderous type, which fits perfectly with the majors methods of doing things.
Almost all the sue’em all victims were tried in public opinion through the newspapers with no method of fighting back for fair play by the victims. To me, it was a blatant attempt to convict or affect the trial later. This smacks of the same mentality and is very suspect to me.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Funny. Actually really funny.
March 10th, 2009 at 3:25 am
I don’t think this will affect the outcome of the trial. If it sways the judge in question, TPB lawyers will have a field day on him. And besides if the judge has half a brain he will understand how things work and ingore the news totally.
March 10th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
The TBP case will be appeal any way regardless of outcome.
Of course these parasites continues to push forward their Nazi propaganda.
Never mine that we got ride of the Nazi and we are geting ride of them.
If we have to physically shoot what is left of them so be it. We have to deworm.
We can not keep parasites in our societies.
March 10th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I remumber that a couple of years ago some entairtainement parasites from the Antpiratbyrån paid an agent to infiltated the Pirate Bay and plant evidences by downloading actual movies files on a PB computer.
Unfortunatly for Antpiratbyrån he was caugh before Antpiratbyrån could manage to have PB servers raided. The pirates retaliated by haking the Antpiratbyrån network, and posting confidential information online proving the plot that also included the identity name address social security of the Antpiratbyrån agent.
Also I though that PB have pressed charges for this. What’s about that?
March 10th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Me too!
I can withing a week or too setup 10 servers with 65 TB of movies and stuff and pretend that this is THE SOURCE! of the pirate bay material!
NAZI PROPAGANDA FOR THE BRAIN DAMAGED!
THESE ENTAIRTAINMENT PARASITES THEIR LAWERS AND THE COPS GOING ALONG WITH THEM ARE DISGUSTING!
March 10th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
“the Sunnydale ring was the source of all pirated material available on The Pirate Bayâ.
The problem is that there is no pirated material available on the Pirate Bay,
PERIOD!
March 10th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
No pirated material available on TPB? Oh heavens forbid, lets up some peg leg polishing skills, eye patch kits that teach you to make one, metal craft so you can forge your own sword and tacking to be able to sail the ship. Maybe just maybe we might even find a “how to teach your parrot to talk”.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
“The problem is that there is no pirated material available on the Pirate Bay.”
Yes, *we* know that, but it doesn’t stop them from paying off the right people to “back up” a different story.