Pirate Party Servers Raided by German Police

This morning German police confiscated the servers of the Pirate Party, currently the sixth largest political party in Germany. Details of the raid are still scarce, but initial information indicates that the raid was targeted at a service running on the Party’s servers. The timing is unfortunate with the Pirate Party participating in the upcoming election in Bremen this Sunday.

pp germany Just a few hours ago German police confiscated several servers belonging to the Pirate Party. The servers, hosted at AixIT in Offenbach, were taken following a request from the French authorities.

The reason for the raid is unclear at this point, but the Pirate Party believes that it’s unrelated to the party’s activities. The board of the Pirate Party has promised full transparency to assist with the investigation.

“At the moment, the Board does not expect delinquency on behalf of the Pirate Party. The investigation is not directed against the party or any of its subsidiaries, they are only involved as the server’s operators. The results are awaited with curiosity,” the Party said in a statement.

The information which the authorities provided to the Pirate Party suggests that the police were targeting a public service on a virtual server. The service has not been named, but there are concerns that the action to take the party’s entire server network down was disproportionate.

The timing of the raid is also unfortunate, as it happens just two days before the Bremen elections.

“The disconnection of all servers is a massive intrusion into the communications infrastructure of the sixth largest party in Germany. Considering the state elections taking place in Bremen in two days, this caused severe political damage, which the Board condemns decisively,” the Party continued.

“In relation to the ongoing investigations, it will have to be verified whether the issued search warrant was actually appropriate, especially whether the principle of proportionality was followed. After all, this action has led to a large-scale breakdown of the technical infrastructure of Pirate Party Germany.”

Although we can only speculate at this point, a plausible target of the raid could be the Piratepad service. Piratepad allows people to collaboratively draft documents, and unconfirmed rumors suggest that it was used to plan a DDoS attack against a French company.

Thus far, however, no official information has been provided about the nature of the French investigation. We will update this post accordingly as more information comes in.

Update: The Pirate Part released some additional information.

The servers were raided this morning 9:15 am following a warrant ordered by the Darmstadt prosecutor.

The investigation is not directed at the Pirate Party, but at unknown users of the Piratepad service who published an SSH Key which was allegedly used to attack a server of the French energy group EDF.

The Pirate Party stresses that the damage to their organization is enormous. Two days before the election their entire communication system was wiped out, and although the main page was brought back up, most services are still interrupted.

The Pirate Party further distances itself from the attacks on the websites of the German police, which started after the raid.

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Jigsy

Very democratic…
- Ninja
  
  Democracy is in your mind. Doesn’t exist.
  
  They should raid Google Docs if it’s about collaborative drafting documents.
  
  With the elections being so close and the fact that ppl are fed up with all this Government moronic attitudes along with Pirate Parties gaining a lot of support lately then it makes complete sense.
  
  Corruption at its finest. Call the Spanish, they are doing it right ;)
  - Haxor
    
    so if dmeocracy dont exist you dont mind if we undemocractically void th euse of any law and take an army of hackers and rip every USA govt website a new asshole right?
    
    OH wait when it syou on the receiving end there is terror and law to be had but when you do it there is no laws . FUCK YOU GOOF. YOUR TIMES COMING, real soon.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      So you mean it’s ok for the police to take action against a suspected burglary by arresting the city block in which the alleged culprit may be hising? Including close search-and-seizure and incarceration of everyone located in the area? Because that’s what happened here.
      
      It doesn’t matter WHAT the justification. This is way out of hand.
  - Eldincal
    
    I wonder if Germany will become Nazi again????
- Ninja
  
  Democracy is in your mind. Doesn’t exist.
  
  They should raid Google Docs if it’s about collaborative drafting documents.
  
  With the elections being so close and the fact that ppl are fed up with all this Government moronic attitudes along with Pirate Parties gaining a lot of support lately then it makes complete sense.
  
  Corruption at its finest. Call the Spanish, they are doing it right ;)
- Ugly American
  
  …and thus, Nazi Germany returns.
  - Ujwnf
    
    Hitler is back!
  - Plop
    
    You Godwin, you lose…. sorry, but them’s the rules!
    - Ugly American
      
      Godwin’s law = a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap.
    - Haxor
      
      yup godwins law being used by a nazi piece a shit fascist to attempt to stop the fact being said that he is a nazi lover and fascist in the extreme. GUESS what asshole your a FILENAZI.
EinZweiii

Was it the Gestapo ?!
- Ugly American
  
  It was the Murdockpo.
bob

Sounds like a time to start Duplicating and distributing onto .is or .cn maybe even .ru but that would be a risky choice.
- Anon
  
  As the search was against the physical servers themselves, there is nothing that hosting under a foreign TLD would have changed in this situation. The reason for hosting a website under a foreign TLD is to prevent that company from seizing the Domain Name, which is not what happened here, and does not seem very likely. Naturally, as a political party, PPD does what they can to stay on the good side of established law.
chief

Interesting tweet by the pirate party (in German): https://twitter.com/#!/Piratenpartei/status/71571226522427392

According to the tweet, logs are anoymized (german law doesn’t allow to log the individual ip’s anyway) and the party’s member database is encrypted. Nice.
- Anonymous
  
  Then I hope Germany does not have a law like the UK does that says give us your password or get two years in prison. I used to think forcing someone to incriminate themselves was rather unethical.
  
  Well it is nice to see them maintain their security when in this modern world we should all do likewise.
  - Plop
    
    it’s not the first time there servers got confiscated. torrentfreak posted about it when they recieved information about the german police demanding a backdoor into skype. all that info was stored on an encrypted drive and they never got to it.
  - Eldincal
    
    Sounds like the UK hasn’t changed much since the time of the American Revolution.
- Anonymous
  
  Then I hope Germany does not have a law like the UK does that says give us your password or get two years in prison. I used to think forcing someone to incriminate themselves was rather unethical.
  
  Well it is nice to see them maintain their security when in this modern world we should all do likewise.
- Anon
  
  Yup, that’s part of what the Pirate Party’s all about!
  
  Privacy, security, transparency, copyright reform.
chief

Interesting tweet by the pirate party (in German): https://twitter.com/#!/Piratenpartei/status/71571226522427392

According to the tweet, logs are anoymized (german law doesn’t allow to log the individual ip’s anyway) and the party’s member database is encrypted. Nice.
chief

Interesting tweet by the pirate party (in German): https://twitter.com/#!/Piratenpartei/status/71571226522427392

According to the tweet, logs are anoymized (german law doesn’t allow to log the individual ip’s anyway) and the party’s member database is encrypted. Nice.
Cavelord

Again with attacking the middle man and never the actual perps. Even if it was used as a mean of communicating these DDOS attacks, it doesn’t give them the right to take the servers. If a person uses a cell phone to blow up a bridge, do they go into Sprint and take all there servers…?
- Roberto Riggio
  
  yes if that is the only way to prevent the same person from blowing up another bridge (until the person is arrested of course)
  - Plop
    
    no they won’t, they will start tapping the phone so they can catch the person.
  - Ninja
    
    Change numbers and phone. What’s left is censorship.
- Ninja
  
  They are trying.
- Ninja
  
  They are trying.
Cavelord

Again with attacking the middle man and never the actual perps. Even if it was used as a mean of communicating these DDOS attacks, it doesn’t give them the right to take the servers. If a person uses a cell phone to blow up a bridge, do they go into Sprint and take all there servers…?
joe

The pirate pad service was also used a lot by the #spanishrevolution Maybe those protests also had something to do with it
- Ninja
  
  Wouldn’t surprise me.
- Ninja
  
  Wouldn’t surprise me.
http://www.thomastvivlaren.se/ Thomas Tvivlaren

Bringing down a democratic party’s entire server infrastructure because someone used an public Etherpad is like bringing down Google for someone posting a blogpost on terrorism.

Democracy, hypocrisy…
guest

btw, http://www.polizei.de and http://www.bka.de are down.. (official sites of the german police and the criminal police) i think anon takes resposibility
Ghorbindah

Apparently we’re the low-hanging fruit. naughty, naughty.
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Amaha

Does this party need several servers to run their business!?
I think for a service targeted to a specific region a cheap server should be more than enough.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  You’d be surprised.
  
  The pirate party in sweden is hosting wikileaks and mirrors are run by pirate parties all over. Any such server is under constant attack by “patriot” extremists and any party with a vested interest in not having a whistleblower site operating.
  
  Not to mention that it’s fairly cheap to hire some outfit in indonesia or burma to run a continual DDoS on your inconvenience of choice which the RIAA/MPAA have never been shy about using (google Aiplex MPAA).
Anonymous

idiotic to take all the servers when the thing was only located on one of the servers?
nanonmunes

if someone wand to create a pad your can use http://piratepad.nl/
Trespass

Obviously politically motivated… right before an election?
- Ugly American
  
  Exactly.
Momo

Bringing down a political party’s servers two days before the election is called “sabotage”. This is right up Sarkozy’s alley. I bet he’s having a laugh right now.

Really, France’s internet policies are like a cancer spreading throughout Europe. They are actively promoting their domestic bullshit like Hadopi to the wider union. Just look at this shit! Sarkozy is like a little dictator (in terms of both stature and despotic ambition) and the French people should get rid of him as soon as possible.

And I mean get rid of him, not like the Canadians who went and voted the Conservatives right back in like little sheep.
- http://otester.myopenid.com/ PiRat
  
  Germans need to march through Paris again and put them in their place.
  - Roller
    
    Your true colors are showing.
    - http://otester.myopenid.com/ PiRat
      
      Joke?
    - Trololol
      
      Sad people can’t tell. God one, though.
    - Anglais
      
      It’s spelt ‘colours’ (there’s a U in it).
    - Me
      
      There are differences between UK and US English you might not be aware of, friend.
    - Xxadfgg Xx
      
      Yea, one country created the English language, the other country took a dump down it’s throat.
    - Anglais
      
      It’s spelt ‘colours’ (there’s a U in it).
  - Anonymous
    
    That would be a nice protest idea but history shows their reluctance to then leave.
    - Anonymous
      
      Serious LOL there :)
    - Ninja
      
      +1 serious lol
      
      priceless ;)
  - Momo
    
    Really?? I’d be much happier if the French people rediscovered their own spirit of revolution. The French Revolution marked the beginning of modern democracy — perhaps history needs to repeat itself.
    
    Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, ou la Mort!
    (“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death!”).
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      Not me: this is what happend
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
- vK
  
  Now im not happy about Harper being re-elected (and getting a majority for that matter) but he is no Sarkozy. canada is one of the few places holding out from being undemocratic and censorship-mad. i voted green
Hugo

A ) How do fuck is France involve in this and why?? Why is a country allowing a foreign country to make an investigation and cease property ?

B) It seems to convenient to take down and physically cease the server that the pirate party was hosted on days before the election and then no reason told to the public.

C) Do u realize how easy it is to take a server and find a million possible reasons why a server could be seize. There going to see whats on the server then determine what they can use
- Monkey balls
  
  Quote:
  “A ) How do fuck is France involve in this and why?? Why is a country allowing a foreign country to make an investigation and cease property ?”
  
  NWO baby ; ) … “Lets disolve the EU and make one big country! … it will be SAFER for you!, BETTER for you, we only want what’s best for YOU! “
  - Trololol
    
    YOU being the companies. Or I could wrong… naaaaaaaaah… :P
Kiko

There is a method to the madness. The german government is afraid of the pirate party, because we speak out loud what we think. Like 1968. Only the tools change.
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Whatever

In a few years if wikileaks still exists some documents will be leaked that it had everything todo with sabotaging the pirate party.

It seems that as soon as people get into politics they become naive (pirate party Germany in this case).

The timing, the knowlegde that such a party would not keep logs or unencrypted data and that the police could have just copied the harddisks all point as an oppertunity to attack that party.

They could have done it after the election.

With the MAFIAA it is always a good thing to be suspicious of such things. Organizations that forge autographs of dead people are not to be trusted.
Oppressionsucks

Oppression Sucks !

Its the world we live in. File Sharing is not a crime. The people who run our governments are commiting crimes by regulating our freedom and dictating our freedom. Hollywood runs the world?
Doesntwannagiveaname

I guess Piratenpad is the problem according to Etherpad website. http://etherpad.org/2011/05/20/german-police-raid-etherpad-deployment/
http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock

The very fact that these pirate partys are allowed to openely wage war against artists says loads about our country’s democratic principles.
- Pirat
  
  Obvious troll is obvious…
  - Ninja
    
    Actually he said “OUR” country. Which explains a lot about his Nazi stance.
    
    Sry, couldn’t resist the joke ;)
    - Plop
      
      Ninja, you’re teetering on falling into a Godwin-shaped pit. Stay away from the whole Nazi idiom ;) LOL
- Ninja
  
  “The very fact that these pirate partys are allowed to openely wage war against copyright excesses and censorship that comes with it says loads about our country’s democratic principles.”
  
  Fixed for you.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    Nice use of semantics there. Please explain exactly is so excessive about paying artists for their work? Do you really think artists should create for free?
    - http://Androidized.com Lucian Armasu
      
      No, but content is getting commoditized. They need to find different business models. Many things in the human history were “killed” by change.Out with the old, in with the new.
    - Trespass
      
      Put it on tape, or get some new material. Oh yeah, you left out the word “stealing”
    - Baloo2
      
      So how do you suggest that the artists should be paid for their work, then? Like everybody else: by the hour of actual work, or for life plus 95 years after a couple of days or weeks work?
    - Baloo2
      
      So how do you suggest that the artists should be paid for their work, then? Like everybody else: by the hour of actual work, or for life plus 95 years after a couple of days or weeks work?
    - Devanite
      
      “Nice use of semantics there. Please explain exactly is so excessive”… how many of these are millionaires? that is what is soo excessive, and what about the few rich n powerful middlemen, why are soo few getting paid for soo much work put in by others?
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      Compared to your apparent belief that search and seizure should be conducted without involving law at any step of the equation the belief whether an artist should be paid or not is rather irrelevant.
- 7th_Guest
  
  Only about as much as your ability to level such ridiculous unfounded drivel against legally founded political parties without a shred of evidence (not to mention common sense) as backup does. It’s not a perfect system, but in a democracy you suffer the bad to enjoy the good.
  
  Seriously though, even by your own typical raving standards, this is far out there by quite a bit. PP “openly waging war against artists”? Rein it in, will ya?
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    I thought you pirates all believed that all politicians are evil and collaborating with the copyright industry in some elaborate conspiracy. But these ones are different? I see.
    
    I dont know about legally founded either. Their entire platform is based on illegal activities. They all stand for free downloading of copyrighted material.. Which is you know kind of illegal.
    
    It may sound a bit crazy, but waging war is exactly what they are doing whether they realize it or not. They think they are fighting some diabolicalcorporation, but if the company doesn’t get paid neither does the artist. Simple as that. When they are promitng free downloads, they are proposing something that will will put artists out of the job.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “I thought you pirates all believed that all politicians are evil and collaborating with the copyright industry in some elaborate conspiracy.”
      
      If that’s what you think, that does indicate that you don’t have any knowledge about the Pirate Party’s of the world at all, which explains why your comments are so irrelevant and illogical.
      
      > “I dont know about legally founded either.”
      
      Well, maybe you should look into that then, so that you learn for yourself how things actually are?
      
      > “Their entire platform is based on illegal activities.”
      
      No, that’s incorrect. Again you seem you lack basic knowledge about the topics you comment on. The political platform of the Pirate Parties of the world are based on a combination of technical fact’s, belief, independent research on what best benefit’s the public and society, and the public’s wishes for change in legislation, in the same way that all political parties are. Nothing strange or illegal about that.
      
      > “They all stand for free downloading of copyrighted material..”
      
      If there’s no foundation to support the theory that something has to be forbidden, for society’s goal and welfare to be achieved, then why should it be forbidden? It shouldn’t, that how legitimate legislation works.
      
      Free access to culture on a commercial scale, for non-profit use, is something very valuable for the public. That’s why libraries were once deemed good for society, and why they in no way should be illegal, despite the authors and copyright holder’s wishes for it, since their simply wasn’t any foundation that said it needed to be forbidden.
      
      It’s the same thing again with filesharing. There’s no evidence that supports the theory that filesharing has to be forbidden, for society’s goal with copyright to occur, or for artists to be able to create, and therefore it’s should naturally be legalized, in those countries where it today is illegal.
      
      > “Which is you know kind of illegal.”
      
      In some countries yes, and the public wants that to change. Nothing strange with that, and that’s why many many political parties in the world, along side the Pirate Party’s, are working for such change in legislation. It’s a normal democratic process, although you don’t seem to think that the democratic process of changing legislation in accordance with the public’s wishes and conclusions of actual research should be allowed, if i understand you correctly?
      
      But discussing politics and copyright isn’t everyone’s strong side. Best stick to the topics one has any actual knowledge of.
    - No_one
      
      Well thought out brilliant reply, the only downside is Jack being Jack he won’t even attempt to reply to this and if he does i will be the usual 2-3 line scrip he gets paid to spew up as usual with no facts or basis for his arguments
    - No_one
      
      Well thought out brilliant reply, the only downside is Jack being Jack he won’t even attempt to reply to this and if he does i will be the usual 2-3 line scrip he gets paid to spew up as usual with no facts or basis for his arguments
    - Derp
      
      Haha, you always make me laugh Jack. My 12 yr old knows better how the world works. I would think you would be happy that file sharers made the internet what it is today. So you have a place to speak your twisted views without people spitting on you…
    - Xult
      
      Do you like the Bufords?
    - FuzzyDuck
      
      What’s illegal about trying to change the law? Or about trying to protect civil liberties? When something that was formerly illegal is legalized then it becomes legal. There is nothing illegal about wanted to legalize things.
      
      Conversely the MAFIAA lobbies to make things that were once legal illegal. But the way the MAFIAA does it is illegal, unethical and immoral, they simply buy politicians.
      
      The PP on the other hand strives to change the laws through democratic means, i.e. by trying to gain enough votes from the public to be heard.
    - IDIOCRACY
      
      > “Their entire platform is based on illegal activities. They all stand for free downloading of copyrighted material.. Which is you know kind of illegal.”
      
      So all politicians that want to make having guns with you legal in USA, are founded on illegal activities too because it is illegal in EU (for example Holland and GB)
      
      Same story.
      
      So all parties that want to legalize for instance Abortion and Euthanasia are founded on illegal activities too
      
      So all parties that want to lower taxes are founded on illegal activities too (the law sais you have to pay for example 30% of your income taxes but the party wants 20%)
      
      I guess you are very right Murdock, Every political party in the world is founded on illegal activities, that is what politics is all about, making illegal things legal, only You want to make legal things illegal. (like sharing files which is perfectly legal in most countries). That is politics too, it belongs to the group make the rich richer :P hehe
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      The same way Martin Luther King Jr. was against the law in opposing racism and the way Gandhi opposed apartheid…and the same way several politicians in Chicago opposed the prohibition, yes.
      
      This may come as news to you, Jack, but in a democracy, everyone is entitled to a political opinion and is fully allowed to build a platform in order to challenge any laws the electorate considers unfair or disproportionate.
      
      However if you want to criminalize the right to political opinion then go right ahead and build a platform. Don’t be surprised when people call you a fascist however.
- Pirate <3
  
  The pirate parties are up for governments to quit this censorship b/s and to keep the content providers from stealing the artist’s lives
- Ugly American
  
  “The very fact that these pirate partys are allowed to openely wage war against artists”
  
  Actually, it’s waged against the thieving interests which exploit artists and their supporters. I’m glad I’ve clarified that for you, shill – kindly keep your MAFIAA bosses informed. And send my love. <3
  
  "says loads about our country's democratic principles."
  
  Loads on your faces say even more – 3 buckets of pirate splooge for you. Enjoy.
- FuzzyDuck
  
  The very fact that these companies are allowed to slowly erode our civil liberties, says a lot about the corruptibility of our politicians.
  
  That’s more like it Eric.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  What, you mean like right to free speech, opinion and assembly? That war?
  
  Nice one, troll.
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townie2

too bad jack, that’s the way democracy works, even the communist party are allowed to run candidates here, though they get no votes. hmm, and i thought the big corps loved democracy, that’s how they make their billions. oh, i get it, they like democracy, but only if its THEIR version of democracy.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1313241278 Paul Krueger

How best to give the pirate party a heap of publicity? Lets raid their servers two days before the election. Stupid.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1313241278 Paul Krueger

How best to give the pirate party a heap of publicity? Lets raid their servers two days before the election. Stupid.
Xult

Thanks for the link:

“German police have confiscated the popular Etherpad deployment at Piratenpad. The Etherpad deployment was being used for structured debates around the protests in Spain so this is a major cause for concern from a libertarian perspective. We believe the polices main reason for the raid is because PiratenPad was being used by the group “anonymous” to organize an attack. The server is currently in possesion of the German authorities.

We entirely support PiratenPad in it’s struggle, we believe that Etherpad deployments and really-real time collaborative document editing should be a right for all people, great and small.

The main cause for concern is that all Etherpad deployments are used by various groups completely openly so we can assume that all German Etherpad deployments are now at potential risk of being impounded by the police. Please be vigilant and help support your Etherpad deployments as they are used every day to draft new laws in countries such as Lybia and Tunisia.”

Therefore nothing to do with filesharing.
But a deliberate attempt to smear the Pirate Party.
Just nefore an election.
Anonymous

Wow, must be a sudden shoratage of REAL crime in Germany.
privacy-online.us.tc
- AbrahamZ
  
  Not at all. There is plenty of REAL crime in Germany….
  the police commit many acts of social terrorism every day.
http://twitter.com/mikkelpaulson Mikkel Paulson

The Pirate Party of Canada has made our server resources available to our German cousins.
Baloo2

This is actually what we in various Pirate Parties around the world have been waiting for. If we were naïve enough to think that political parties would be exempt from the grasp of the MAFIAA, we now know that even this former sanctuary is open for their attacks as their “war against the .MAFIAA enemies” goes on.
Baloo2

This is actually what we in various Pirate Parties around the world have been waiting for. If we were naïve enough to think that political parties would be exempt from the grasp of the MAFIAA, we now know that even this former sanctuary is open for their attacks as their “war against the .MAFIAA enemies” goes on.
AbrahamZ

Does Kinda make you wonder if they are recognized as a political party at all.
Any one heard of the government computers being seized on the ‘suspicion’ of some Black Op or other?

No? Thought not.
- Baloo2
  
  Just you wait and see. The more desperate the MAFIAA gets, the more moronic actions they will take…
  - Ugly American
    
    That sounds about right – and they’ll continue to fail.
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http://www.facebook.com/mwonch Michael Wonch

Wow… Kinda makes me wonder, though, why this Pirate Party didn’t prepare for the obvious with a redundant backup every damn night.

I won’t believe that PP was the target, but I will contend that it was a nice “surprise” to the German politicos who are threatened by a newcomer.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  They probably do have that. However in a typical police raid it’s the actual servers and backups which got seized. That said, they can borrow server infrastructure from other pirate parties and sympathizers in the rest of the world to keep basic communications up.
http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes

This event is a MAJOR blunder by Police/the “authorities” and there MUST be serious repercussions for the blatant failure to fully investigate, assess the potential damage and then act fairly and sensibly.

This event, unless rectified with profuse and public apologies by those at fault, must NOT set another dangerous precedent in limiting lawful activities by private citizens, businesses, or organisations (such as political parties or charities, etc.)

Germany has scored a HUGE FAIL with this one act of over-zealous, and probably unlawful seizure of hardware. But they couldn’t have picked on a more clued-up bunch of guys. So I look forward to the result of said serious repercussions, apologies, etc.

All power to the PPDe.

EDIT -
wtf’s an SSH Key anyway guys?
I also dunno what all the fuss was about (but I guess the PP doesn’t either as it had nothing to do with them).
- Anonymous
  
  wtf’s an SSH Key anyway guys?
  
  You’re kidding, right?
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  “wtf’s an SSH Key anyway guys? “
  
  “Secure Shell”. In other words, an SSH key is a password of sorts which authorizes remote login to a server.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Who the hell in their right mind has remote login to a server enabled in the first place on any OS? The fact is that it is way too easy to ‘sniff’ the password in question.
Quinn

“The timing is unfortunate”

I’m sure it’s a complete… coincidence.
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Njwiefp

It’s a deliberate sabotage.
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Anonymous

Atleast they have the best political party song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs_9suYC28
;-)
Anonymous

Atleast they have the best political party song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs_9suYC28
;-)
Anonymous

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU–
Guest

The Nazi are back:

The Germain police!
- Ugly American
  
  St. Germain is a German cop?
  
  I wish I could download a BMW… <3
Anonymous

Two days before the election taken down… Pure sabotage. (Just like in Holland, where the STER apparently didn’t receive the PPN commercial for the elections in time… wasn’t broadcast)
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL

take it to russia, fuck off, if things get this fucked up let the “masters” in this subject to deal with this, FUCK OFF…
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Haxor

well if they want to not have any civil rights then lets say to hell with law and give them a taste of a hacker army descending upon every US govt website till there all ashes and they all fall down.
Anon

After 70 years things are not better in Germany, Nazi are back strong as ever!

This world needs freedom from oppressing governments and stupid laws!

Power to the ANON!
Fieldsr6

Help me out here guys… So is the piratebay down because of this? It is for me, and has been since the comcast shenanigans (although I don’t know if I’ve checked between now and then)
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  The Pirate Bay doesn’t have anything to do with the Pirate Party directly. The usual reasons for TPB suffering downtime is due to direct attacks or ISP local filtering.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  The Pirate Bay doesn’t have anything to do with the Pirate Party directly. The usual reasons for TPB suffering downtime is due to direct attacks or ISP local filtering.
Adriena

The german nazi colors never wear off.
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