Tag: SWEDEN

Unsinkable torrent site The Pirate Bay was temporarily down after police raided file-sharing servers in as many as 14 European countries on Tuesday morning. TorrentFreak, one of the web's most prominent torrent news sites, reports that the main target was the Pirate Bay's ISP in Sweden, where police tried to find out who was using two specific IP addresses. More raids happened in major Swedish ...

Wikileaks has been a hot news topic for several months now, largely due to Bradley Manning and his 260,000 page contribution. There are plenty of people in corporate and government positions who want the site shut down (and prosecuted), but most all, they want their leaked data and they want the sources for those leaks. WikiLeaks' legitimate ability to protect those sources and the data they've ...

If you woke up this morning hoping to download last night's episode of Mad Men (of course, I totally wouldn't know anything about that) you'll have to look somewhere other than The Pirate Bay. The popular, controversial torrent site was taken down by the Swedish government earlier today, and is still unreachable as of this posting. Authorities got to the Bay by threatening the site's hosting ...

The Pirate Bay, an epitome of copyright defiance in the P2P realm, has become something of a holy grail for prosecutors. Assuming that throwing more paperwork at them must eventually do the trick, Pirate Bay admin Peter Sunde tells Ars Technica that they have just received over 4,000 pages containing information regarding the prosecutors' current investigation. But that doesn't bother Sunde, as he ...

Part one of a documentary on the Swedish piracy movement has been released and it sheds interesting light on the attitude of the Swedish people and the pressure brought to bear by the US government upon them. For anyone who hasn't been following the raid on The Pirate Bay, or the formation of The Pirate Party (a political party whose platform includes Piracy as its main point), part one of "Steal ...

Sweden's Pirate Party, a political party dedicated to intellectual property reform, has announced the launch of Relakks, a service that anonymizes your internet use. There's not much to tell about the service itself--it works via encrypted VPN, which is easy to set up in Windows and OS X, and costs either 5 Euros (about US$6.40) per month or 50 Euros (about $64) per year. The Pirate Party has a ...