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June 4, 2006 8:38 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: metafilter is not the emergency pirate bay broadcast system. jeez.
Search is still broken. Torrents are being posted but no search.
posted by SirOmega at 8:51 PM on June 4, 2006
posted by SirOmega at 8:51 PM on June 4, 2006
Too bad the 'legal threats' section is not up yet.
If you know swedish, the official police documents listing what they confiscated (available somewhere on TBP, there's a link from WikiPedia IIRC) is hilarious reading. The coppers carted away such damning evidence as empty computer cases, routers, blank cds and 2 faxed pages regarding the air conditioning. No, really.
The surveillance video of the bust is also hilarious, especially when one of the coppers take a little time off to pick his nose.
posted by spazzm at 8:55 PM on June 4, 2006
If you know swedish, the official police documents listing what they confiscated (available somewhere on TBP, there's a link from WikiPedia IIRC) is hilarious reading. The coppers carted away such damning evidence as empty computer cases, routers, blank cds and 2 faxed pages regarding the air conditioning. No, really.
The surveillance video of the bust is also hilarious, especially when one of the coppers take a little time off to pick his nose.
posted by spazzm at 8:55 PM on June 4, 2006
Don't miss the blog of TPB's legal councel, who was arrested and had to submit a DNA sample.
Soon after this travesty I am released from custody and able to return home only to discover that they have ceased just about all of my electronic equipment. Even my keyboard, my microphone, two TFT flat screens and a multitude of cables. I immediately understand that especially the microphone will yield important information that will help bring me to justice.
posted by spazzm at 9:15 PM on June 4, 2006
Soon after this travesty I am released from custody and able to return home only to discover that they have ceased just about all of my electronic equipment. Even my keyboard, my microphone, two TFT flat screens and a multitude of cables. I immediately understand that especially the microphone will yield important information that will help bring me to justice.
posted by spazzm at 9:15 PM on June 4, 2006
Because I'm dumb: their legal threats page has a helpful graph at the bottom to help law firms understand how futile their threats are (I assume). But the graph seems to show the number of torrents deleted rising with the number of legal threats, which seems to make the opposite point. Why am I not understanding this?
posted by gsteff at 9:19 PM on June 4, 2006
posted by gsteff at 9:19 PM on June 4, 2006
That has annoyed me for some time too, gsteff and Jenga.
Worst of all, they used to have a correct graph but replaced it with that flash POS.
I think they do it to give law firms false hope, so they have more 'fodder' for the page.
posted by spazzm at 9:51 PM on June 4, 2006
Worst of all, they used to have a correct graph but replaced it with that flash POS.
I think they do it to give law firms false hope, so they have more 'fodder' for the page.
posted by spazzm at 9:51 PM on June 4, 2006
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