Hackers Attack Swedish Police
Written by Ernesto on June 02, 2006The website of the Swedish police was forced to go offline after a DOS attack. Although it is still unclear who initiated the attacks, the link between this incident and the raid on the Pirate Bay seems obvious.
Two days ago the Swedish police raided The Piratebays providers server park. Three Piratebay Admins were held in custody but were soon released. They are being charged with copyright infringement.
No crime has been proven yet, it’s still under investigation. This will probably the ultimate test to determine whether hosting a torrent tracker is illegal (in Sweden), or not.
The DOS attacks that took down the website of the Swedish police are likely to be the work of Piratebay sympathizers. A DOS attack (denial-of-service attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system.
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thats funny take down THOSE DAMN Swedish Policemen!!!! How dare they take down our TORRENT sites!!!!
What @ coincidence…
dose anyone know the website for the police department that has the hardware i can help in this DOs attack
TORRENTS SHALL NEVER DIE
http://www.polisen.se/inter/nodeid=10230&pageversion=1.html
IS THE OFFICIAL SWEDISH POLICE URL ACCORDING TO WIKI. BUT IT’S AN ODD URL AND IT LOADS FINE.
how could i help to flood the police’s site and others that have attacked thepiratebay?
We need a torrent client that downloads while DOS’ing all the RIAA/MPAA and other agencies IP’s because the ip is public knowledge it would prolly be easy to find but the best part is since BT makes like i think its almost 1/2 the internet we could take them down easy no matter how good their connection and computer is XD … although if anyone remembers makelovenotspam the screensaver that DOS’d spammers it killed some internet backbones or something and apparently the company had to shutdown or be sued cuz DOS’ing isnt very legal but in the case of BT its not like they can have a class action against like billions of people… But do we really want to lower ourselves to their level O.o
hate to double post but!
What would Jesus do about P2P
http://img126.imageshack.us/my.php?image=copyjcengsub1sn.png
rofl
World wide P2P users should come as one and do one hell of a DDOS to most of goverments trying to control us like so. I think they would turn around how the feel about such downloading when they do see we are the people we picked them and we can take them down just by our numbers. If one of a few computers under one hackers control can take down a site or network then why can’t every last P2P user DDOS as one? :) Even if everyone just sent one ping at the same time I think they would understand what we are trying to say… there way more of us then there are of them.
Not a good idea at all, don’t be petty, just buy the software you’re stealing, if you want it to get better its the only thing to do.
I would say that it’s most likely that any attacks will be treated as a criminal offence, and they will prosecute you, all over the world it’s illegal to interfere in police investigations, and there’s no reason you cannot be charged with that if you start to attack thier equipment.
This was a long time coming, thepiratebay is an illgal site, wether you enjoy to use it or not isn’t the issue here, the admin are engaging in criminal activities, many other sites will follow, and the police will succeed.
You should just give up, let them do what they need to, anyone who complains they cannot afford something is totally missing the point, you wouldn’t go into your local shop and steal shopping, and you shouldn’t be stealing of software publishers either, the authorities will win this argument, there is too much money to loose, even if you do attack them with childish tactics they will still get their own way.
I say good on them, anyone who partakes in the writing of software will think exactly the same way….
Technically, you would need a computer the same size and speed to DDoS the netowrks you’re talking about, and most probably in the same DC, I dunno about the sweedish police, but USA and UK police forces are going to need a lot more than a few pissed off teenagers with some bodged and years old DDoS programs to even make any difference to their operation, all you’re doing is making your own life hard, DDoS attacks are tracable to your IP, and your ISP has a record of your ip address for the life of your service.
Who really cares anymore…
Many who download simply want to sample a product before buying it. I know in the case of anime, I buy the best, and don’t pay for anime I didn’t really like. These corporations would love to make people pay first, and find out it’s crap later. The police WILL NOT succeed in this matter, as soon as they take down one torrent site, a dozen more pop up. Like napster, after the lawsuits, TONS of other sharing programs came out. Its the wave of the future, screw everybody who thinks this is ‘wrong’.
I live in Africa and often download music in an attempt to explore the upcomming indie music schene - I then go and order what I like over the internet.
These include bands like:
Secret machines,Modest Mouse
Smog,PostalService,Spirit,
CashBrothers,MudHoney,
WhiskeyTown,”R”ianAdams,WhiteStripes ,(before they where well known…) WHICH WILL NEVER PLAY ON THE RADIO and who would struggle to sell cd’s in Africa
In South Africa it would otherwise be impossible for me to explore what is out there… Most CD stores and Radio only cater for HipHop and R&B artists.
There are two sides to the story.
Record companies have to accept that they have to evolve and that the MichaelJackson era is over. Bands will have to make their money by actually performing and working. Media is an excellent opportunity for smaller bands to get their voice to the masses and people like Madonna will still make enough money if she only sells (worst case) 5% of her records.
Postal Service and the Libertines would have been unheard of if it wasn’t for the MP3 era.
Regards,
Kris
That is so freaking true. If Jesus was alive today, he would probably hang out at the Bay first.
quoting by what kris said about south africa, most shops only cater for hip hop etc, people only download in south africa because the CD stores charge a FORTUNE for a CD. a normal CD now days cost about R140 which is the same as about $20 US. now is that expensive for a a CD or what?
Anon: Wow, you’re not very clever, are you?
First off, the Swedish police site WAS down due to DDoS, so I guess a “few pissed off teenagers” CAN make an impact.
Second, a DDoS attack, when crafted wisely, will come from thousands of servers (due to little things called “proxies” and “anonymous routing”, look it up!) and even if the Swedish (or any other authority for that matter) police would attempt to trace every single IP they would still fall short on the fact that many of these proxies reside in countries that could care less about the “authority” exercised by said police.
Third, the torrent community didn’t even stutter during ThePiratebay’s two-day downtime, making your statement “the authorities will win this argument” completely invalid.
It sounds like you’re a cop to me. At least equally uneducated and naive. :]
Oh and by the way, I AM a professional software engineer, and I fully approve of the entire torrent community. The fact that you believe our “excuse” for using torrents is because we can’t afford the software/music/movies/whatever just proves the point that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
The question is what is legal.
Kudos to the above statements.
The fact is that there are many of us out there that go out and buy something just to support the artist or developers after we have tried it out.
Hate to tell those that are against p2p, but the world is becoming open source.
In the end, there is no ‘ultimate enforcer’ when it comes to human law.
It is all relevant to those in power
So before people judge where they do not know, think of this:
What if your world was backwards and it was your head on the skewer?
Many times as well,
if a person downloads something they like, they may inturn be turned on to the band or artist and purchase tickets, shirts or other band items that otherwise would not have been.
At the least, people talk about the music and movies they like. If they never hear it, then the populous will never know
p2p supports public awarness and popularizes artists work more than it would by people that, honestly, that do not want waste their resources on a cd thats crap but do not mind buying, sharing, whatever, a song or two that many times leads to further support of the artist in some other fashion.
[quote comment="10904"]Not a good idea at all, don’t be petty, just buy the software you’re stealing, if you want it to get better its the only thing to do.
I would say that it’s most likely that any attacks will be treated as a criminal offence, and they will prosecute you, all over the world it’s illegal to interfere in police investigations, and there’s no reason you cannot be charged with that if you start to attack thier equipment.
This was a long time coming, thepiratebay is an illgal site[/quote]
I agree that getting in the way of polcie activity might not be good for you, but TPB being illegal isn’t decided yet. That’s the whole point.
ok.. it is absolutely and completely stupid to think the act of file sharing can be stoppped..
even if you shut down every piece of file sharing software, i can simply copy data to some kind of medium and give it to a friend..
honestly.. if you think you can stop this you live in a dreamland
woo hoo go sweds!!!!! teach those police to steal torrents from us..im canadain and with demonoid down and tpb…shitwhat next?..hackers of the world need to join up and send a serious message to all the fucking, police, irac, lawyers ,copyrights people who ever it takes for them to to get our point: freedom of imformation sharing all across the globe……
Lately it seems like countries love to enforce create and destory freedom, give companies more power of the internet world. The “Internet isn’t ment to be controlled”. Its for people to get information or anything they need upon it. While other media,creators, refuse the rights of privacy, they attack to stop it. As in return it spreads more of strikes,protest, and more download usage. Why are countries fighting of laws of internet and how should it be run? Is the internet run by higher ups just because that? Is that what we call justice of todays society?
This is the day and age when people are going to have to fight for freedom of information. I do support people that are trying to make a living but I also support the right of information being free. We wouldn’t be anything if we weren’t getting information like we are today. This explains the reason why Technology increase so fast and same with health, etc…
[quote comment="5065"]We need a torrent client that downloads while DOS’ing all the RIAA/MPAA and other agencies IP’s because the ip is public knowledge it would prolly be easy to find but the best part is since BT makes like i think its almost 1/2 the internet we could take them down easy no matter how good their connection and computer is XD … although if anyone remembers makelovenotspam the screensaver that DOS’d spammers it killed some internet backbones or something and apparently the company had to shutdown or be sued cuz DOS’ing isnt very legal but in the case of BT its not like they can have a class action against like billions of people… But do we really want to lower ourselves to their level O.o[/quote]
I have something to say:
“FUCK THE POLICE!”
If I could avoid getting in trouble for it I would use my computer to help a DDOS attack on them.
There should be no copyright-at least as far as being the government’s job. If i was in a band I would support no copyrights it cause it could make your music pretty popular if it’s free, and then you could make money from live performances.
[quote comment="10904"]Not a good idea at all, don’t be petty, just buy the software you’re stealing, if you want it to get better its the only thing to do.
I would say that it’s most likely that any attacks will be treated as a criminal offence, and they will prosecute you, all over the world it’s illegal to interfere in police investigations, and there’s no reason you cannot be charged with that if you start to attack thier equipment.
This was a long time coming, thepiratebay is an illgal site, wether you enjoy to use it or not isn’t the issue here, the admin are engaging in criminal activities, many other sites will follow, and the police will succeed.
You should just give up, let them do what they need to, anyone who complains they cannot afford something is totally missing the point, you wouldn’t go into your local shop and steal shopping, and you shouldn’t be stealing of software publishers either, the authorities will win this argument, there is too much money to loose, even if you do attack them with childish tactics they will still get their own way.
I say good on them, anyone who partakes in the writing of software will think exactly the same way….
Technically, you would need a computer the same size and speed to DDoS the netowrks you’re talking about, and most probably in the same DC, I dunno about the sweedish police, but USA and UK police forces are going to need a lot more than a few pissed off teenagers with some bodged and years old DDoS programs to even make any difference to their operation, all you’re doing is making your own life hard, DDoS attacks are tracable to your IP, and your ISP has a record of your ip address for the life of your service.[/quote]
YOU CAN TELL THIS DUDE IS AN
^^^^IRAA IFPI MPAA or MEDIASENTRY AGENT ^^^^
well illgall sharing has slwoed down due to the goverment are slowly shutting donw private torrent sites and when they have all dhut down the public free trackers will start to slow down it did happen in at teh tsrat of 2008 every tracker on the internet had offlined and timed out and after 3 hours they had all manged to back oneline!!
so this pracy will not stop now torrents are getting slower everyone are using rpaidhsrae links and megauplaod links to downlaod thier illegall downlaods and people are using private ftp servers hwih i use always to downlaod public torrents are slow but any private ones arealwyas fast that why the goverment are stopping the private ones first that is where the public when ones come from!!
there is one site:
http://anymovs.mine.nu- which uses onelien servers to downlaod!!!
i have three invitations left so come on this link (http://www.mininova.org/user/sohail20)and comment and i iwll choose the three i am willing to give the invivation code to!
do you have anymore
Who wants to pay america anyway!
If we were living in a democracy GW Bush and Tony Blair would be in prison for war crimes and file sharing would be legal.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
I never thought those torrent thingees would cause so much concern… let the DenialOfService to the poor and impoverished of the world begin!!! I can’t believe that authorities have it in for the information starved masses. My general belief is that governments are interested in not allowing a information and entertainment poverty to develop as they genuinely care about their citizens. A far better option for governments than “Raids” and seizures etc is to pay for the services through taxes. I heard something when I was living in Italy that the Canadian Government does this for their citizens and pays Entertainment companies something through taxation for the downloading etc. I think that approach is something I hope Italia will adopt and other countries to keep the information and entertainment playing field equal. Often the poor have to make a choice between an internet connection and other services and it’s truly helpful for governments to work with the Entertainment companies to pay some taxes for the information. I’ve never used a torrent before but I do support their use and hope that those who are below the standard of living that allows for participation in popular culture will be aided and assisted by governments all over the world who genuinely want to ensure their citizens and fellow countrypersons have a better quality of life.
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