The Pirate Bay (often abbreviated TPB) bills itself as the world's "largest BitTorrent tracker", and also acts as an index for .torrent files that it tracks. It was started by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån in early 2004, but since October 2004 has been a separate organization run by dedicated individuals.

So now that ThePirateBay.org is offline, the celebration can go into high gear, right?

Remember we?re dealing with file-sharing, the ubiquitous hydra that simply cannot die no matter how many press releases you throw at it. If you destroy one file-sharing network, another will take its place. Remove ten BitTorrent indexing sites, 20 more will pick up the slack. ThePirateBay.org is no different, but in holding true to their nature as defiant to the entertainment industry, this BitTorrent tracker and indexer is scheduled to return within two days.

Although all tracking and indexing abilities are currently offline, [url]www.ThePirateBay.org[/url] domain is still functioning. For the last 36 hours, it has been providing various updates on the raids and status of its administration. And true to their nature as being defiant in the face of the entertainment industry, ThePirateBay.org?s days are far from over.

In large, bold text, the following text is scrolled mid-screen:

“SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO”

Yesterday, ThePirateBay.org spokesperson “brokep” informed Slyck.com “we are moving it to another country if necessary.” It appears ThePirateBay.org is making good on this promise. Carl Lundström, president of Rix|Port80 told Slyck.com “As I take it, they have bought new servers, installed back-ups and are already up and running tests in at least one foreign server centre.”

It seems once again the entertainment industry is about to shoot itself in the foot, unable to stop the global spread of file-sharing. Considering the speed in which ThePirateBay.org is scheduling its return, (which requires a substantial amount of logistics, organization, leadership, and not to mention equipment), it would appear they were well prepared for this event. The same cannot be said about the entertainment industry.

The aftermath is just getting bigger and bigger.Here in Sweden,now with the prime television stations reporting that Mpaa,Hollywood,Us government,AntiPiratByrån and their other cronies have been in collabration and pressuring to take down TPB,In so doing,disrupted and caused economic upheaval to 300 other businesses.Which were also taken down.
What right does any foreign power have to force or direct others,for their own greed.
Sometimes it takes just a little pebble to create a massive landslide !
And it seems Swedish people are not happy about this,at all!!

 http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/rss/story/0,2789,835996,00.html

Published: 2006-06-03

Filesharers and politicians demonstrated
Hundreds joined up in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

On the saturday afternoon demonstrations against the police razzia against the filesharing site Pirete Bay were held in Stockholm and Gothenburg,
In Gothenburg a couple of hundred persons gathered, aswell as around 500 persons at Mynttorget (Coinsquare) in Stockholm, to hear the demands for the return of the sezied servers and the cancelation of the preliminary investigations of the suspects. During the meeting Fredrik Neij gave a message to the authorities:
- Abort and stop fighting the internet, it is a war you will never win.
Johan Höglund, 17 years old, explained to TT[1] that he was at the demonstration because it is important to protect our legal securities[2]. He also adds:
- It is also important that we investigate wether the USA were behind the raid.


Money in the lake[3]
The demonstration, which was arranged by The Pirate Bureau, The Pirate Party, Green Youth, The Liberal Youth League (LUF) and Young Left, had a number of speakers. Amongst these were LUF's chairman Fredrik Malm, who pointed out that despite the raid the Pirete Bay was up and running, and that the money spended on it had been "thrown in the lake". He says:
- The time when police and politicians could restrain the technologial development is past.
Ida Gabrielsson, chairman of Young Left, states:
- It is important to point out the unreasonableness of using 50 policemen to hunt down three young men who run a link site.

Text accompanying the photo:
Filesharers and politicians co-operated at Gustaf Adolf's square in Gothenburg.


Translator's notes:
[1] Tidnigarnas Telegrambyrå, the Newspapers Telegram bureau, a private news organ.
[2] Transparency of the legal system, open courts, etc. A fundamental prerequisite for democracy, according to the UN.
[3] Throwing the money in the lake, expression for wasting money.