Latest developments from Sweden:
Ahoy! The pirate ship is sailing again!
Pirate Bay is back online running on new servers located in Holland. Despite the forced move into a new hosting service in another country the site seems to have succesfully restored virtually all of its indexing data from the backups, and the functionality of the site is also being quickly restored. The first new video posted to the site was a control camera capture from the police raid that shut down the site three days ago.
Demonstrations in Stockholm and Gothenburg
Support demonstrations for Pirate Bay are taking place today in the two largest cities of Sweden, Stockholm and Gothenburg (Göteborg). The demonstrators, backed by four official political organizations, demand the returning of the seized servers, a stop to all raid-related police inquiries, destruction of the DNA samples taken and answers to a number of tough questions from the Justice Minister Thomas Bodström who was responsible for initiating the Pirate Bay raid.
A 17-year old hacker took down the Swedish police website
Newspaper Aftonbladet has
found out that a 17 year old high school student was responsible for the DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack that took down the website of the Swedish police for over a day. The hacker told Aftonbladet that it took an hour from him to organize the attack. Thousands of compromised 'zombie computers' were used in the attack, and the effect of the attack was further amplified by the curious surfers from around the world who went to browse the website from the links posted into popular sites like
Digg.
Aftonbladet: "Generation War"
"The entertainment industry has no chances against the youth", writes journalist Lena Mellin in her
Analys (Analysis) column in the large Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. "The shutdown of the pirate site Pirate Bay has led to a generation war. On the other side are the old people and the law. On the other side are the young people and the Internet." Her view is supported by the official participation of several political youth organizations in today's support demonstrations for the Pirate Pay. Many well-known younger politicians of the established Swedish parties have already openly challenged the official copyright policies of their respective parties.
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In the picture below Pippi Långstrump, a popular anarchistic children book character created by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Like the Swedish pirates, Pippi is smart, resourceful and does not fear to challenge the bad guys or the authorities. Pippi's entire name in English is Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim's Daughter Longstocking.