{"id":279,"date":"2006-06-01T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=279"},"modified":"2006-06-01T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T11:24:24","slug":"pirates-sunk-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Pirates sunk &#8211; for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance (sic) of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether (sic) it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/5036268.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/5036268.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who is behind this? You can bet your last Krona that it isn&#8217;t Swedish police or the Swedish government directly. So that leaves external (and most probably) commercial interests directing the activity of a domestic justice system in the complete absence of any legally substantiated wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden, I am ashamed of you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the internet-savvyness of record labels, <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.guardian.co.uk\/features\/story\/0,,1782629,00.html\">this interesting piece<\/a> from the Grauniad sheds some light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law. &#8220;The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}