As I understand it - I could be very wrong - Swedish law says you can't restrict the exchange of information. The people who run ThePiratesBay claimed the police wouldn't find anything on their server farm, and apparently they didn't.
I hope DL.TV (Patrick Norton from TechTV's old "The Screensavers") covers this in their webcast tomorrow.
Not that I use ThePiratesBay...Really, I don't. I don't even know how to use Bittorrent stuff. Seems too complicated for relatively little reward. In the heady days I did use filesharing/swappng programs to find old/unique/little known songs, but that's justabout all done now...but then there's the - virus run rampant - usenet.
prisoner6
The RIAA should have known better. The PiratesBay management's press release hinted at their future efforts, distributed seeding in globally distributed mirroring hosts with distributed tracking. Along with the newer packet encryption programs being developed soon to be integrated into BT.
The RIAA just launched Skynet against themselves. Technologists have been warning the RIAA lawyers against playing this cat and mouse game since the majority of home users were on 28.8k dialup.
The future will be amazing when the RIAA starts disabling hundreds of thousands of DRM entertainment system models at a time in retribution against their customer base cracking the DRM for each model.