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Hacker attack swedish government server

The swedisch boulevard paper "Afonbladet" reports that the swedish government website (contains about 40.000 pages) was unreachable in the night from Saturday to Sunday, coming back online Sunday noon.

Accordingly, this attack was a direct response to the raid performed by the swedish police against the BitTorrent-Tracker "The Pirate Bay".

What's "The Pirate Bay"?

(source: WikiPedia)
The Pirate Bay is known in the online file sharing community as one of the more prominent websites which distributes torrents (files used by the BitTorrent filesharing program) that point to unlicensed copies of copyrighted material. In some countries, offering such torrents could be considered an illegal aiding of copyright infringement, but in Sweden and other countries this is not the case. In July 2005, new anti-piracy legislation was enacted in Sweden which made the distribution of software for the purposes of copyright violation illegal. The Pirate Bay is well known for the "legal" page it hosts featuring mockery of organizations sending copyright infringement notices and cease and desist letters to them.

A hardcopy of a reply from The Pirate Bay to Web Sheriff, (Entertainment Law Associate) in response to faxed legal threats, was sold on eBay June 8, 2005, for US $255.

There is no official response from the swedish government to this incident yet, there would have to be systematic analysis first. The attack seemed very similiar to another one against the swedish police on Thursday, for which a group called "World Wide Hackers" already took responsibility.

About 900 people demonstrated on Saturday against the performed crackdown on "ThePirateBay". Supporters say the crackdown is in direct violation with swedish law, since "ThePirateBay" provides information about media downloads, while not providing any downloads themselves. Unless law would be changed, they will continue their activities said Mikael Vibor, legal advisor of the group.

To lend political weight to the discussion, the former Microsoft employee Rickard Falkvinge founded a party called "The Pirate Party". The party counts about 5.500 members, rapidly growing after the reports about "The Pirate Bay".
Main foci of the party are empowerment of privacy and a balanced copyright law. To actually move into the swedish government the party would have to pass the 4% hurdle, for which it would need 225.000 members by next September.

Wow, what do you say to that?
What's your opinion about filesharing and downloading? In the internet world of today, it is so easy to manouver into the gray-zone of illegal file sharing. Let's hear what you have to say!

A video of the raid was posted on www.youtube.com.

Sources used: www.heise.de

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Great topic. I'm always interested in this issue. The gray area between what's legal, what's ethical, and what a free market can dictate is able to create is always a hot button topic. I think the file sharing debate is realy a trade issue, not an ethics issue. People will take what they can get for the best possible price...and dometimes that price is, well, free.

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