Update: MPAA Respond To Pirate Bay Shutdown

Update: wiredfire.org: The Pirate Bay Raided: Exclusive Interview:

"This is exactly the kind of raids the Pirate Party wants to put an end to, when society sends its police at the young generation for their listening to music and watching movies, it's not the young that are in error. It's society that needs to get a grip." (Rickard Falkvinge - Head of the Swedish Pirate Party)

"Which corporation would stand for this?", asks Rickard Falkvinge, head of the Swedish Pirate Party. "Which corporation would stand for having the police raid their facitilies and shut down operations, before they were proven guilty of a crime? In this case, the Pirate Bay has commited no crime. They are disliked by large media interests, that's correct. But it's not illegal to be disliked..., and definitely not cause for the Police to raid and shut down one of the world's largest gathering places for our young generation."

Slashdot reports: An anonymous reader writes "ThePirateBay.org, a longtime fixture of the BitTorrent community, is currently under investigation. Slyck.com is reporting their servers have been seized by the Swedish police." What's really interesting about them is the strange political power that they held in their homeland. There was much discussion even of a political party. This will be interesting to watch unfold.

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