The Swedish Government is the owner of thepiratebay.se
After a court-decision ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se has been forfeited to the Swedish government. This is the first time a domain name has been confiscated in Sweden on this level. There are no previous cases of states suing a registry for abetting…
Pirate Party Norway Goes Around Censorship
The Norwegian Pirates are against censorship. Recently the Norwegian court ordered that Norwegian ISPs have to block seven file-sharing sites within two weeks. The sites that will be censored are The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, Viooz, Primewire, Swefilmer, DreamfilmHD and Movie4k. This…
Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij Released from Prison
Fredrik Neij was released from prison in Skänninge, Sweden, on 1 June 2015, after serving two-thirds of a 10-month prison sentence for his involvement with Pirate Bay in enabling copyright infringement. Neij was instrumental in the operation of the Pirate…
Let a Thousand Pirate Bays Blossom
The Pirate Bay is back online but not back to normal. The new TPB seems to be a slimmed down version where many of the old moderators and admins, who have taken care of the site over the past decade,…
PPAU Translates Landmark Pirate Bay Case
In late August 2014 I was working on a submission to the Australian Government’s Online Copyright Infringement discussion paper. The Government was canvassing new measures to “tackle” the “problem” of online copyright infringement, and this was one of many opportunities for the…
The Pirate Bay blocked in France
On Thursday, 4 December 2014 the French ‘Tribunal de Grande Instance’ (TGI) in Paris issued a judgement ordering the four main French ISPs (namely Orange, SFR, Bouygues and Free) to block access to thepiratebay.se and about 80 proxies, redirects and…
How the State Produces Hate: Peter Sunde in Prison Part 2
(Continued from part 1) Time passes and our father becomes ill. Peter is worried about what is happening. Our father is old and has severe pains in the leg. After the lung cancer twenty years ago he only has one…
How the State Produces Hate: Peter Sunde in Prison (Part 1/2)
The prison sentence from The Pirate Bay trial is not the only punishment that Peter Sunde has to endure. His brother wrote a long public post on Facebook about the treatment of Peter Sunde and how it also affects and…
Court Rules Blocking TPB Ineffective: PPAU Crowdfund Translation
Update: the translated ruling is now available for dowload (pdf). Earlier this year, a Dutch Court ruled that not only was blocking the Pirate Bay ineffective, BitTorrent traffic in the Netherlands had actually increased since the Pirate Bay was blocked. The Court decided…
Peter Sunde Arrested
The Swedish Newspaper, Expressen, has reported that Pirate Bay co-founder, Peter Sunde, has been arrested. He was held in a raid on a farm near the city of Skåne Tonganoxie. It was assumed that the Polish police would have had…
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