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It has been almost a year now since the controversial raid on The Pirate Bay. Recently, Prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall said that he was determined to press charges against the admins of The Pirate Bay. However, new information has leaked which shows that the Swedish police has nothing to give to the district attorney, and doesn’t have a strong case.
There had been rumours abound about The Pirate Bay launching a streaming video site. It has now been confirmed by the TPB guys that they are in fact in the process of building a YouTube competitor.
It seems that hardly a month goes by without another malicious BitTorrent client appearing for download, hoping to dupe inexperienced and unsuspecting file-sharers into installing malware. As new kid on the block ‘Get-Torrent’ hits the web, we scratch below the surface to find the same old malware and the same old story.
When you’re as infamous as The Pirate Bay, this inevitably leads to attention, not all of it positive. Unfortunately, the guys at the bay have had a run in with some undesirables who took copy of the site’s user database. However, prepared as ever for disaster recovery, The Pirate Bay crew had already taken measures to limit the value of this booty.
The Pirate Bay dismissed the rumor that they sympathsize with right-wing (or left-wing) political views. In fact, the only wings they treasure are their Phoenix wings. It looks like the anti-pirates have loaded their cannons, but so far The Pirate Bay has dodged their bullets, as they continue to sail on.
In a public statement, Prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall made it clear that he intends to press charges against the admins of The Pirate Bay. Tobias Andersson from the Pirate Bay was not impressed by Roswalls statements, and said they will simply move to another country if they are outlawed in Sweden, without downtime!
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