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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[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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