Swedish Piracy Crackdown: #2 Torrent Site Calls It Quits

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February 23, 2012
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Sweden’s second largest torrent site has shut down its operations with immediate effect following threats from Antipiratbyrån. In closing, the site – which appeared in Google’s 2010 Zeitgeist report – bemoaned the “fascist tendencies” of the entertainment industries. Meanwhile, Sweden’s Pirate Party is celebrating the influx of hundreds of new members as a direct result of the closure.

On February 1st, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it would not be granting leave to appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay case. This means that the prison sentences and millions of dollars in fines previously handed out to the four defendants will stand.

Quickly, prominent copyright enforcers for the entertainment industries – Hollywood lawyer Monique Wadsted and Antipiratbyrån lawyer Henrik Pontén – announced that the decision would signal a new crackdown on file-sharing sites in Sweden.

Although there was no immediate news of site closures, now there is a significant development. Tankafetast, Sweden’s second largest torrent site behind The Pirate Bay, has announced that it has ceased its operations with immediate effect.

“After many ifs and buts, we have decided to close down TankaFetast,” the site’s operators said in a statement.

“Maybe we can one day see an end to the fascist tendencies that comfortable businessmen in the film industry and corrupt politicians have turned to something common in recent years.”

While Tankafetast may not be hugely popular overseas, its importance in Sweden was reflected by its inclusion in Google’s 2010 Zeitgeist report. At the time the site claimed 39 million page views per month.

“As long as we allow the reality of facing fossils bribe away our rights, they will do it. We will never agree that copying is theft, and will always consider the distribution of culture as something positive,” the site’s operators conclude.

At the start of the month the entertainment industry lawyers said that more than 150 file-sharing sites with Swedish connections would be pressured to close. According to Henrik Pontén of Antipiratbyrån, Tankafetast’s closure is a result of their action.

“We can confirm that we have acted against Tankafetast and many other similar sites,” he told TorrentFreak this morning. The bitterness in the site’s shutdown statement certainly appears to confirm that.

However, the Swedish Pirate Party are claiming that Tankafetast’s loss is their gain. The site encouraged outgoing users to join up to Piratpartiet to assist with the fight against over zealous copyright enforcement, a push which resulted in 250 new members for the Party overnight.

“Tankafetast gave the party the best parting gift you can imagine,” says Party leader Anna Troberg. “By helping the party to get more activists we have strengthened the Party’s capacity to work for a reform of copyright which is in line with the times and can not be used to tighten the thumbscrews on ordinary culture lovers.”

Significant copyright enforcement actions in Sweden have resulted in membership boosts for the Pirate Party not only locally but worldwide. Following the first Pirate Bay trial in 2009, the Party added record-breaking numbers of new members but administrative issues meant they couldn’t maintain all of them longer term.

“We learned a lot from the huge influx of members after the first Pirate Bay trial. Then we weren’t able to take care of all new members,” says Troberg. “We will this time.”

To the south-west of Sweden in the Netherlands, local anti-piracy outfit BREIN is reporting that during 2011 they managed to shut down 383 BitTorrent sites, 83 streaming sites, 71 cyberlocker link sites and 52 Usenet indexers.

The news would of course be even more dramatic if we could back up these claims with some site names and other details, but BREIN are traditionally tight-lipped on providing extra information to accompany their annual reports.

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Greed is good.
- DOP
  
  … and hopefully they get a heart attack
  - O’lay Pirate
    
    I hope you’re not being serious…
    
    The worlds fucked up enough (ie; our governments) without needing people wishing death upon another human. I’d not wish it on my worst enermy.
    
    Well… maybe I’d wish it on people like Hitler, but that’s beyond the point, that’s merely getting justice – murder for murder. But then… whos going to be the one to murder the murderer of the murderer? MURDERCeption! O_O
    
    Why can’t people just chill out… love one and eachother… people are entitled to an opinion… yes, even MPAA/RIAA/MAFIAA etc. I understand why they are against piracy… they like money, don’t we all? They might be in the wrong but if I had that much power and money I’m sure I’d along with other people would be doing the same thing. But I don’t have that much power so I can feel open minded about the situation.
    
    Repair our governments, stop wars etc. Sounds like a nice place right?
    
    It’s the governments who declare war remember, and not us.
    
    Murderers are just people who get fucked up… don’t encourage murdering or death upon someone. It’s inhumain nomatter what the motive is.
    
    That’s my opinion anyway, sure, feel free to disagree. Just had to get it out in the open so hopefully people out there will take what I’ve said and act a bit differently in the future.
    - Anonymous
      
      ACTA will kill thousands of people in poorer countries by denying them cheap medicine
      
      that counts as murder, and the MAFIAA is responsible for that.
    - O’lay Pirate
      
      @Anonymous, the murder of ACTA hasn’t occured yet… just saying … so … untill the murder has occured, they haven’t actually done anything wrong .. :S
      
      They intended ACTA to stop piracy etc etc … they didn’t build it to kill people (even though that may be the result). Man slaugher, if you will. I don’t believe man slaugher deserves a death sentance.
    - Anonymous
      
      ACTA is not just about piracy and the internet, but also about medicine
      
      they know full well that that will kill thousands of people since they cannot get cheap medicine, only their overpriced ones, just so they make some more profit.
      
      granted, the MAFIAA is not really responsible for that part in ACTA, but they are the ones pushing that piece of shit the hardest, so they might as well be.
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http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

This is going to be one crazy ass year.
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  Hopefully things will backfire so badly that the Pirate Parties around the world will get enough power to start slamming the MAFIAA and ppl turn to indie and non MAFIAA content. That would speed up their death and we’d be free of these putrid vermin.
  - Kr0nZ
    
    but then they will just say piracy is even more out of control, they could never comprehend people not buying their useless noises.
  - Rohe
    
    The problem is more likely, that the sweden or french or german pirate party could do something in their countries with the content produced there.
    
    The US has no open party system. The pirate party can’t get a foothold there.
    Its quite a hard stretch to believe their “political reach” will stretch to the content cartel to the US. And I don’t think that you can issue laws that say that something is legal in your country that came from an “unclear” source.
    
    In this sense, the constant, global senseless feeding off US production makes this problematic – because they have an stupid political argument, thats not Swedish productions people want to download. Its US stuff.
    - Mwhahaha
      
      I think the pirate party’s best chance of any influence is in the European parliment, MEP’s aren’t voted for by many people, at least here in England, and if a concentrated effort was put in, with torrent sites informing and urging people to go and vote at the next European elections, there might be some surprises in store. I find it a little sad that all the torrent sites don’t carry prominent links to the pirate party’s website. They get so much traffic it would surely help the pirate party’s membership numbers.
  - U.S.S Defiant
    
    I wish there were a violent splinter of Anonymous. Getting your hands dirty is fine… but if we are to win this war… hands will need to get bloody. BTW, Anyone know what happened to Daily Divx?
    - Guest
      
      A wild spai emerges.
      
      I choose ignore.
      
      …It’s super effective.
    - Resin
      
      No, if we resort to violence, we will lose. Remember, the goal isn’t just to get rid of the corporations, the goal is to convince the populace that getting rid of the corporations is a good thing, and that filesharing and donation sites can fulfill the needs of the artists and give a worthwhile service to the populace. We’re not just supposed to get rid of the corporations, we’re supposed to do something better then them.
      
      The instant we resort to violence, all of our arguments go out of the window. We are no longer rational thinking beings who happen to hold a different viewpoint. At that point we become terrorists, and I don’t mean “terrorist” in the sense of an Iraqi defending their village, I mean terrorist in the sense of someone who is willing to kill for their own political gain.
      
      If we resort to violence against someone who has not used violence against us, then the populace we are trying to win over will agree with the state’s efforts to imprison us, and we will lose this war. And you know what; we’ll deserve to lose the war.
      
      I know that may not fulfill whatever desire for vengeance you may have, but if you think about where we stand, what our goals are, and what gains we have made, you’ll see that violence is the absolute worst option we can take right now.
      
      And finally, I would not trust Anonymous with violent actions. They already have shown that their sense of justice won’t prevent them from targeting innocents who happen to be in the cone of fire; knowing that, I see no reason to trust them with real guns.
    - Rohe
      
      @Resin (reply button vanished?) The question of violence is: who to attack? The artist, that searching for a well crafted bed they lie in? The studio? The publisher? On their side of the fence, everything is good and beautiful.
      
      You can’t beat a “system” with lots of participants by taking one of 100.000s out and resort to violence. Its like hitting someone with a stick because he is fat and holding a triple hamburger and yelling “Its fast food companies that make us sick!”. It will not work that way. He doesn’t understand, because he is part of it and he wasn’t forced to buy a triple hamburger.
      
      We need to create alternative models where people are really paying TO THE ARTIST. We need more artists who are ok with not being represented by one of the major labels (this includes their 100s of smaller labels who always try to hide that their orders are coming from one of the cartel leaders).
      
      That makes the system hard to change. Because nearly nobody is really paying the artist online. The other side of the fence at least still makes money. They can claim that “it works”. Violence doesn’t change that.
    - LazyDave
      
      “We need to create alternative models where people are really paying TO THE ARTIST. We need more artists who are ok with not being represented by one of the major labels (this includes their 100s of smaller labels who always try to hide that their orders are coming from one of the cartel leaders).”
      
      @Rohe – an artist can always, say, promote their music via YouTube and hope to make enough via adsense or something. Or, they can find a sponsor and (hopefully) work out some mutually-agreeable arrangements. Or, an artist can always create music videos of themselves for free, create a donate button or similar, and hope for the best.
      
      It so happens that the major music companies have the resources to help artists become artists, spread their music, etc. But nobody’s really forcing them to sign up under a music label, right?
      
      Things may seem unfair, but there’s always a choice, and options do exist.
- A_gel
  
  indeed.
- Anonymous
  
  They cannot stop a signal that conitinues to bounce between all the “little fish” in the P2P world of sharing. They can try to hammer at the big visible people, but those people are backed and have the respect of those of us who have followed. Don’t stop sharing!
- Anonymous
  
  I agree….never have I seen so many sites being taken down. The downfall of MU really did a number on the file-sharing community.
http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

Well, one thing is certain: if they actually manage to close each and every single file sharing site, if they manage to control each and every single form of communication so I can’t even share stuff with my close friends via e-mail I won’t be changing any of my media consumption habits (not buying anything more than I would normally and this amount is currently ZERO due to the nazi copyright stance the MAFIAA follows).

What will be the excuse when the sales don’t really grow after the ‘successful’ piracy crackdown? Oh wait, we have seen it with HADOPI, they’ll torture the numbers till they say what they want (ie: compare a 18 month sales increase with regular 12 month data trying to pretend it actually compares).
- MadAsASnake
  
  It’s called “whack-a-mole”. The more success they have in shutting sites down is a function of the number of sites they are trying to shut down. 383 BitTorrent sites is a lot if there are only 400. It’s irrelevant if there are 10000 and growing. Yes – they’ll cherry pick those numbers that make them look good.
  - http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
    
    Indeed because despite all the crackdown that has been going lately (and they did hit some major sources for me) the choices are so broad that I have yet to feel anything other than the need to add different entries to my hosts files. Short story: I can still find plenty of sources for the stuff I want to download.
- Universal Soldier
  
  Well before this day comes, I suggest you download loads of stuff so that you can watch it for the rest of your life. Anyways the movies released these days are of no good (except 5-6 for the whole year). So download as much as you can before this happens. Anyways this is going to take long and you have a lot of time in your hand.
  - http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
    
    Actually, I already have plenty of stuff to watch/listen/play whenever I want. If you keep in touch with what comes out everyday in terms of entertainment (including indie content) you’ll see that you simply don’t have time to appreciate everything. I’m fairly sure that there are jewels I’ve downloaded because they caught my attention but I have yet to enjoy them.
    
    It’s interesting, the MAFIAA is fighting for our scarce product (entertainment time) and they want to dictate what we pay for it. Amusing.
- Anonymous
  
  yes, they still haven’t realized that if “copyright infringement” as it’s defined today goes away so too does profits. Funny, huh.
  
  Literally if everything they’re trying to claim was illegal was simply gone today, then nobody would buy their stuff – yet they continue to push for this.
  - Mwhahaha
    
    I’ve still to see spreadsheet evidence that they incur these mythical losses.
Jamesd

So.. wait a minute. You telling me no-one knows where this Henrik Pontén lives?
- Anonymous
  
  Henrik Pontén
  Ekholmsnäsvägen 114
  181 64 Lidingö
  Sweden
  - Bloaxor
    
    Expect guests tonight!
  - Fyfvvu
    
    I might just post this on some chan sites :)
    - Anonymous
      
      please do ;)
Garethneil

so what this mean if more website call it quits?
- Moxie
  
  Let’s not forget the analogy of the hydra…
  - Jmorse43508
    
    Except that it seems lately that the Hydra is losing more heads than it is gaining.
    
    Either that, or more underground sharing is going on that is not being reported, or is both untraceable and unstoppable.
    - Dfgsgd
      
      If i were to make a site tonight, how long do you think it will take for you to hear about it. 1-2 years?
- Anonymous
  
  Don’t stop sharing. They can’t stop us all.
  - pirate guru
    
    Internet shutdown no problem.. thumb drives are getting cheaper ^_^
    - Anon
      
      And so the hard drives (although the small price spikes coz the flood ocurred in thailand). Anyways, sharing will be kept, mostly between close friends. 10 of them will use a single file, as they’ll enjoy it for a limited time in their lives and can save money. There isn’t a SINGLE statement that convince those 10 needs 10 registered files in order to enjoy them. Sharing is REALLY caring. It educates as well, giving them more hope for the future. Anyway, 99% of people who shares dont sell the files. Actually, they delete all of them as being old. And THIS statement IS valid: most of the users really BUY items that they liked most. I dont know any people that has dozens/thousands of files without buying original CD/DVD’s of a given file/collection.
    - Guest
      
      Actually MAFIAA gets money everytime we buy USB sticks, HDDs, (blank) CDs and DVDs..
    - Mwhahaha
      
      Let’s set up a mailing system and see if they try and close the mail network down!
Anonymous

it isn’t going to stop guys. because the entertainment industries dont control the internet, they are going to keep on until, basically, it’s either destroyed or just not worth having any more. what isn’t being considered by them for 1 second is how much better off everyone would be if they were to give customers what they wanted, or how much harm is being done to so many other companies and businesses. i dont understand why everyone else is just standing back and watching their own enterprise go down the tube. why not consolidate and fight together? why keep losing out yourselves or paying for something that those industries themselves want and should be paying for? why would ISPs and search engines just keep bending over to get shafted by them? funny old world, i guess
- Mwhahaha
  
  I agree entirely. I set up a trial on netflix (uk), figuring I’d see what the legal alternatives were like. I mean, hey, it looked like they might be making an effort with offering online content. So what the fuck, meet them half way, y’know?
  
  Only it’s full of films from a decade ago at least, topped up with B movies. Why anyone would pay for netflix over here I have no idea.
  
  There are good free movie sites out there which I think are legit:
  http://www.indiemoviesonline.com
  http://www.classiccinemaonline.com/
  
  Anyone know of any others?
  Support those legal sites who are giving us what we say we want!
Logros

hmm.. where they realy that big? im from sweden and tbh i have never even heard of these guys…
http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

So the industry thinks it’s winning when actually they are losing. It seems that each site that goes down just adds more hate to the scum bag industry. I see a dying industry. The Internet/file-sharing will never die. Believe it.
- PlatinumC
  
  Yeah, you have a point there. Each time they fk something up, another person is englightened. Sooner or later we will win :3.
  - http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
    
    With pleasure :)
RebelWithACause

A complete boycott of buying music and films by consumers is the best way to show RIAA/MPAA that buying politicians in each country only makes them more hated and will affect them worse in the long run.

Time to setup a month of no-purchases as a start…
- Anonymous
  
  black march is coming
  - Guest
    
    #blackmarch on Twitter
    - Kode
      
      yeah Boycott is the solution – without our money they dont have power …
      
      so Black March will be so fine , a month without internet , without Fakebook aka Facebook , without any other social network , without media (music movies , tv etc ) if billion people will join and take a break for just one month they will loose for shure
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

Given the refreshing new freedom for people via the internet, new technology and the positive impact that has on World society I tend to agree the fascistic entertainment industry, and indeed the whole concept of CopyWrong, Patents and Imaginary Property law, needs drastically updated to reflect a proper and fair access to markets, and to open those markets fully without any continuation of the anti-competitive practices or laws to support these old monopolies as currently represented by the MAFIAA.org and many others in the field of human talent, endeavour and knowledge.

Politicians now need to strip away these stultifying laws that are quite simply holding back the artistes, their potential customers and fans Worldwide – and that’s why items like ACTA and the TPP agreement MUST be trashed.

The ‘internet revolution’ is occurring now as you read this comment.

And the MAFIAA pimps who force our talented musicians, actors and artists into whoredom now need to be jailed for their unfair and unnecessary exploitation of these excellent examples of humanity.

The MAFIAA, IFPI et al can spend the cash WE gave them to try and bribe OUR elected politicians, but WE vote and WE can stop it.

Your choice folks. Think then act.
That one episode of Southpark

Kyle: [some seconds later] Um, sir-
Detective: Shiut up!! [the boys jump in their seats, then look down, chagrined] You downloaded a lot of songs! Says here you even downloaded Judas Priest? That’s hard time you boys are lookin’ at. You got anything to say for yourselves?
Kyle: [rubs the table a bit] We d-didn’t think it was that big a deal.
Detective: [pissed off] Not a big deal! You think downloading music for free is not a big deal?! Put your coats on! I’m gonna show you something! And I don’t think you’re gonna like it!
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DRuNKeN MaSTeR

“…during 2011 they managed to shut down 383 BitTorrent sites, 83 streaming sites, 71 cyberlocker link sites and 52 Usenet indexers.”

And during the same time 849 BitTorrent sites, 125 streaming sites, 95 cyberlocker link sites and 67 Usenet indexers were newly created.
- Anonymous_in_Switzerland
  
  I don’t discredit or dis-believe this statement, but is there a link to where that information came from? Sharing is caring!!!!!
  - Anonymous
    
    it’s the same source that the other numbers came from: someone’s ass
    - Gae
      
      Same place MAFIAA get their figures then.
    - DRuNKeN MaSTeR
      
      Exactly :)
- Zdfvzz
  
  seriously they didn’t shut down anything. Brein likes to make stuff up. It’s probably more like if a site happens to fail or shuts itself down and they had send it one email some time ago, they just take the credit for the shutdown.
http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

first megaupload shutdown then cyberlockers start deleting files and block U.S ip address. TPB shutdown by end of this month and now this
- Anonymous
  
  TPB is not shutting down
  
  learn to read
  - Mwhahaha
    
    He said shut down not shutting down. As in blocked off. Oh my, what can I do about this?
    
    Proxy, VPN, alternative DNS provider.
http://twitter.com/FreePSDFinder FreePSDFinder

so what , they wont be able to stop torrents and sharing!!!! :)
They can’t stop everyone!!!!!! muhahahaha
Asdf

lol, isn’t this that fake site that was for sale on december?
- Vaede
  
  Yea except it wasn’t fake, people in these comments just thought it was. Everyone in Sweden knows this site.
JimJim

Did anyone bother to actually go the site in question..

They state “This weekend we hope to have the site online!”

Doesn’t sound like they are shutting down.. sounds like they are reopening under a new name in a new location.
- Anonymous
  
  Translation of a communiqué from the crew:
  
  “For all of you who are still writing and asking why we shut down. It’s the same reason Sprew wrote before, that the reason we closed down was because had out web host/servers in Holland and there is a Dutch organisation named BIERN that is threatening to sue our web host and force all ISPs to block tankafetast’s IP adress. Our web host doesn’t dare to take such a risk. Therefore Thelaw (owner of TF) decided to shut down the site. However, we in the crew don’t think such a nice site should be shut down just because of some threat mails. We made contact with the owner of the domain name tankafetast.com and he agreed. We then decided to get the site back up again. We’ve contacted the Pirate Party and as far as I know we’re still waiting for an answer.”
  
  I would also point out that I hadn’t heard of the site before either, but I suppose it was mostly popular with the non-technical people who simply want an easy download with subtitles already there and nothing more. There are lots of people out there who know nothing about computers but are still filesharing, it’s just natural. Though I would venture out to say that probably not that many of them are following torrentfreak :)
- Anonymez
  
  It’s basically the same as what happened with the old Swedish site Tankafett. The owner shut it down and the uploaders started a new site (dreamseed). So yea, same uploaders, different owner.. not much will change for the users.
Anonymous

Well, as long as the young generation doesn’t get brainwashed, we’ll outlive them in the end. When all these Internet-fearing industries and politicians retire and/or die their natural death, some more Internet-aware people will replace them. It might take time, just don’t give the copyright dictators more fuel by calling for massive piracy. Just don’t encourage them, neither by legal purchases nor by downloading.

Downloading is not an act of rebellion, it doesn’t prove you’re right. It just proves, at least to them and their paid politicians (remember, it’s not bribery since we’re a democracy… right?) that people can’t give up on “their property” and are only “thieves” unwilling to pay the “rightful” price. They’re wrong of course, but that doesn’t make you automatically right either.

(note: If you can’t give up on more music, there are free alternatives that can still show the “industry” that we can live without them. “Free as in free speech and as in free beer” as they say.)
- Bond, James Bond
  
  Where’s the fun in that? I’ve never been a fan of asceticism.
- Anonymous
  
  as long as a copyright isn’t held by one or more human beings then it can be ignored.
  
  Corporations are machines, and shouldn’t be given rights due to acts of creativity.
  
  Corporations gain copyright from the actual creative human beings by act of piracy.
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Anonymous

surely the whole point is that they shouldn’t be able to shut sites down in the first place! there shouldn’t be any need to. this cat and mouse game is really achieving nothing. 1 site down, 2 sites up, 2 sites down, 1 site up. $1,000s in expenses and fines, jail time, businesses closed or not allowed to even start, innovation held back indefinitely, all because a few arse heads wont change and all over a few files. the majority of people do or would pay for stuff if it was available. they ‘file share’ because it isn’t! what makes it worse is, no matter what evidence there is to oppose the accusers, no matter how it is presented, the verdict has already been reached before the trial even starts. Mega is a prime example. look at all the negative publicity that has been broadcast, including the US hope of extraditing them and jailing them for 20 years, yet Kim and his staff aren’t even allowed near a computer. what does that tell you?
- Gae
  
  Of course the idea of the US is not to give Kim a trial to see if he did anything wrong, the whole idea is to get him over to the US so they can lock him away for as long as they can get away with in order to be able to scare other sites away even if they may not be breaking any laws.
  The decision that he is guilty was reached at the same time they decided they were going to arrest him.
http://complicityexpos.moy.su/ Complicity Exposer

It saddens me to see another site go offline for good. :(

I feel like it’s only going to get worse in the near future, and with this UN future involvement, that’ll bypass sovereign local laws I heard, it really does show how corrupt the World’s politicians have fell under control of the corporations, nowt but pure fascism in it’s true definition. :(

Ciao.
Anonymous

Closed: 383 BitTorrent sites, 83 streaming sites, 71 cyberlocker link sites and 52 Usenet indexers

Resulting Impact to Copyright Infringement: None

Copyright Industry Catalog Access: Unchanged

Copyright Industry New Media Delivery: Irrelevant

MAFIAA: Wake up, time to die.
http://www.facebook.com/kenny.lex Kenny Lex

I need to say this here even it may not be in the right place to do so, but both Piratebay and Tankafett had pages where it did say that they not shall be hold responsible for what users of the service does with it, Google and Apple has same kind of pages to say that they not are responsible for what users of the service does.

But Piratebay was convicted for crimes other had made via the service/tracker, so therefor can not Googles or Apples legal pages that say they not is responsible for what customers do or for what things the seek-bot finds on Internet will not be binding in Sweden, so Google can be held responible for all illigal anc copyrighted images they link to in same way that Pirate Bay was find guilty for linking to copyrighted music and films.

So I just wait until some do dare to sue Google for all 100 000 000 images they link to, for several tousen artists may has lost 100 000 000 000 Dollars because of that…

yes, and sorry for my bad spelling.
- Anonymous
  
  they already sued google (youtube)
  
  and lost
U.S.S Defiant

You’re all a bunch of wussies.

You don’t deserve a free and open Internet.

…i hope Corp & Gov win!
- HAHAHAHAHA
  
  ha ha
  hahaha
  HAHAHAHA
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  
  Ahhhhhh….
  
  ……….
  
  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!
- AnonRules
  
  fuck off ya yank.
Anonymous

With all these closures, have sales jumped up, followed the same trend or dropped?
- Anonymous
  
  stayed roughly the same, which means physical sales down, digital sales up
  
  but the MAFIAA is working hard to drive those numbers down by being total cunts and getting hated more and more.
  - AnonPal
    
    very true mate fucking MAFIAA…
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Anonymous

Wow its getting downright scary out there for sure. Who comes up with all that stuffI wonder?
Dex

In Germany the Pirate Party is at 9 percent nationwide on the latest polls: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2F0%2C1518%2C816230%2C00.html

Let the elections come :P Also politicians seem to be getting more and more affraid in light of that, especially after the Europe-wide ACTA protests.
Gargo

After this kind of things, ive changed my studies from physics to informatics, start learning to fight tomorrow…
Fqwfqw

The site will be up and running any minute now.
Antonio

let piracy be
Krozar

Well, the War on Drugs failed, so let’s try the fascist war on free information!
http://www.actualisedesign.com James

Wow, torrent sites this year have been collapsing faster than the careers of American Idol winners (not that I’d know who they are). Where there’s people and a want, there’s a way, and always will be. The cycle continues.
http://www.facebook.com/joshua.mcwhorter Joshua Mcwhorter

Be assured, we here in the US do not buy the bullshit and lies of the corporations, entertainment industry, or our politicians. We know that corruption is rampant, in our system as well as yours. Together there will be hope. We must continue to stand together to fight back against the lies! This is not a move to protect people or rights. It is a blatant attempt to undermine those values! To protect corporations and banks at the expense of individuals and freedom. We can not allow that to happen.
- Anonymous
  
  Last time I checked, Asshats and Idiots are a global phenomenon, not a local one. The internet knows no borders and neither should the online community.
  
  The most embarrassing thing is that I know for a fact that many of the sheep in office aren’t corrupt per se – just incompetent in any sector but political maneuvering.
  
  What we really need in the body politic is competence, because even a self-serving dictator, if smart, would be preferable to a well-intentioned leader who was an idiot. As GWB proved conclusively.
  
  And unfortunately we have many examples of high-ranking politicians as dumb as dubya in europe as well…
PRIVACY is priceless to me

KILL THE FUCKING KING!
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PrivacyBeforeCopyrights

I hope these rich assholes suffer with cancer, and strokes serves them right for being so greedy.
jöö

There’s lot of vikings in Sweden. Board your ships and revolt against the state! Let the hammer fall!
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Jack

never heard of it.

another site gone down, 50 more gone up.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2PVT3HSZEA3J5FWGATJUSGG33A David

This is absolutely disgusting. The way to solve this problem is to give the public what it wants-high quality movies and music at low cost and with convient access. The greedy music and movie industries have been ripping the public off for many years. This is probably why most people don’t feel guilty about downloading high-quality media for free. This is a temporary setback. Eventually, technology will provide another avenue to meet the public’s wants and needs. Give it up, MPAA! Your days in power are numbered!
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Anonymous

http://goo.gl/HG8va
Anonymous

the actual piracy occurs when a corporation uses its power to take away copyright from the creative individuals.

it’s our duty as human beings to ignore copyright that isn’t in the name of the creative individuals.
http://www.tribalmixes.com/ dj mixes

the site looks like it’s back up and running.. can’t take away our PIRACY!!! =))
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http://www.facebook.com/glenn.folkvord Glenn Folkvord

Isnt the site up and running again now? Seems like so.

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