The Pirate Bay Returns June 5, 2006
Posted by AskMike in P2P.2 comments
Popular Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay came back online Saturday night, after being shut down in a police raid.
last week and forced to relocate to The Netherlands. The raid prompted
a response from Pirate Bay supporters, which attacked the Web sites of
the Swedish police and government.
The government Web site was
offline Saturday after a flood of requests for a file overloaded its
servers. The file requested was a picture of Swedish Justice Minister
Thomas Bodstroem, who has fought to make file sharing illegal in a
country with traditionally lax copyright laws.
Sweden last year passed a law banning the
transmission of copyrighted material over the Internet without paying
royalties. It is believed the crackdown on The Pirate Bay came in
response to this legislation, although Swedish media outlets accuse the
United States of pressuring local authorities to act.
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