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The Pirate Bay speaks out about Swedish prosecutor

25 May 2007 12:49 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 9 comments

In their latest blog entry, the admins of The Pirate Bay speak out about the prosecutor and his public announcement that he is going to file for an extension in his case against them. According to the prosecutor, the "work of going through the servers" is still not completely done, although they were confiscated almost a year ago.

Here is the full blog entry:

The prosecutor Hakan Roswall has publicly stated in Ny Teknik that he is going to file for an extension in the case against The Pirate Bay since the work of going through the servers is still not done.

After almost one full year the police has still not come up with any evidence against The Pirate Bay. Wasting more of the tax payers money and not returning the over 100 servers from unrelated PRQ customers is nothing but a big scandal by the Swedish authorities.

Further, he states that they are about to start going through the encrypted material on many computers.

There was no encrypted harddrives, partitions or even loop files on the servers that belong to The Pirate Bay. The encrypted data he is talking about must therefore belong to the PRQ customers.

It is our firm belief that either Hakan Roswall is using The Pirate Bay raid as a cover-up for going through other peoples data or that he is about to take a long holiday and do not want to work this summer.

There is no reason for not just copying the data from the hard drives and returning the hardware to the many organisations that need them to function - even though the government have wasted almost one year of the affected organisations time. The justice ombudsman apparantly believes that these servers are already returned, months ago, and he based his decisions partly on that false information.

If the court grants H�kan Roswall any more time extension on this case it is clearly for going through other data than The Pirate Bay's. This should not be accepted as this was not the reason for the [unnecessary] raid. Being computer experts (and the owners of the data, we know what we have on the computers) we cannot see any reason for any more time being used on this. Honestly, we would have copied the data in less than a day, but then again we are really good at copying.

The Pirate Bay is a file sharing network where users put up content to share with other users. No content is hosted on any server at The Pirate Bay besides the .torrent file which contains no copyrighted material what so ever. According to previous similar court cases this is not illegal.

Source:
The Pirate Bay

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krj15489 (Senior Member) 25 May 2007 12:57
they are never going to get tpb. they should just stop trying [ + quote]
Halen5150 (Member) 25 May 2007 13:31
Quote: No content is hosted on any server at The Pirate Bay besides the .torrent file which contains no copyrighted material what so ever. According to previous similar court cases this is not illegal. EXACTLY. So why is this crap still dragging on? [ + quote]
domie (Member) 25 May 2007 14:36
it drags on because they don't have any evidence to prosecute tem and they hope they can wear them down by delaying and delaying. i don't think it will work in the case of the Pirate bay because they are very well organised and Swedish law is not as anti-copyright as other countries. it certainly worked in the cases of sharereactor and shareconnector, we all remember that.They were taken down by the authorities with government support for 2 years or more, no charges were ever pressed but when they reopened, the damage had already been done. they hope to bring down the PB by the same process i imagine. [ + quote]
Thora (Newbie) 25 May 2007 15:14
Quote: No content is hosted on any server at The Pirate Bay besides the .torrent file which contains no copyrighted material what so ever. According to previous similar court cases this is not illegal. Quote: EXACTLY. So why is this crap still dragging on? Because they never learn. They keep digging till something comes up and when something comes up they dig more. [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 25 May 2007 15:15
borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 25 May 2007 18:25
Their just going into a big black hole of nothing. [ + quote]
sdsunjay (Inactive) 27 May 2007 0:31
so are they say that the prosecutors are going to go through people's files that have downloaded anything from TPB? [ + quote]
editmon (Newbie) 1 June 2007 8:39
/It is our firm belief that either Hakan Roswall is using The Pirate Bay raid as a cover-up for going through other peoples data / Bingo! [ + quote]
MIKYPLUM (Newbie) 1 June 2007 10:38
all goverments like spending taxpayers money, on stupid lawsuits, exept when it comes to lining their own pockets with taxpayers money they are always keen ti rip off the taxpayer, to line their own pockets. they are all two face hypocrits [ + quote]
Unfocused (Member) 18 June 2007 17:33
Wasn't all this resolved months ago? I thought that I had read an article stating that all of the servers were returned. [ + quote]