Three young men from Sweden created a website in 2003 — and called it The Pirate Bay. Their plan was to build a catalog of all the illegal downloads available on the Internet…
Pirate’s Bay lets people search for and download BitTorrent files, which contain copyrighted music, movies, TV shows and software. Well, now Swedish law enforcement has caught up with them.
CNET News writes
Biggest-ever Internet piracy bust claimed in Sweden
Erik Palm writes:
Swedish police on Friday reported making a major Internet piracy bust. Authorities said they seized computer equipment belonging to a Stockholm-area man whom they suspected of violating local copyright law. The police, who carried out the raid on February 9, only disclosed the news Friday.
According to the Digital Journal, Bart B. Van Bockstaele writes
“The well-organized pirates on the scene seem to have an inflated sense of their own ability to conceal themselves, but this raid shows that we can get to them. Copyright applies to the internet too and we will continue to prioritize efforts to counteract these well-organized groups,” said Anti-Piracy Agency lawyer Henrik Pontén in a statement. He thinks that the Sunnydale ring has collapsed as a result, and that this ring was the source of all pirated material available on The Pirate Bay.
Swedes Claim They’ve Killed the Source of The Pirate Bay’s Power With “Biggest Ever” Raid
Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan writes
The raid, launched on a server owned by the Nordic file sharing ring Sunnyvale, actually took place during The Pirate Bay trial of the epoch. The Swedish Anti-Piracy Agency says that by taking down that server, they caused the collapse of the entire 10-server Sunnyvale ring, which put out about 65 terabytes of pirated goods, from games to TV.
TPB’s Peter Sunde says “it is possible that it’s a major source” but is also dubious the Sunnyvale ring is the sole source of the material that makes TPB tick, since “more than 800,000 people have uploaded to The Pirate Bay.”
