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“Notorious piracy website The Pirate Bay was taken offline yesterday, as part of a raid by Swedish authorities,” Electronista reports. “The server raid in Stockholm, which took place yesterday morning, is said to be performed as part of a large operation to protect intellectual property, with several servers and other computers seized for further examination by the police.” “Yesterday’s event joins copious others in the history of The Pirate Bay where authorities have attempted to reduce piracy,” Electronista reports. “It also occurs just over a month after co-founder Fredrik Neij was arrested in Thailand, after fleeing Sweden following his 2009...

I am Kiowa Winans, Executive Producer of the movie, "Ink," which was bit torrented by pirates and consequently became one of the top 20 most popular movies online. We are shocked by this whole thing. We made our movie in Denver, CO with a very small budget and have done all of the distribution ourselves, fighting to bring it to 15 cities for theatrical screenings. We figured it would be pirated eventually, but didn't expect it to happen so soon or for it to take off the way it has. We are indie filmmakers, have zero studio funding and are...

Torrents, Suprnova et all The torrent community is in “shock and awe” today. Suprnova, internet’s most popular torrent tracker site is now permanently offline. Its owner, Sloncek isn’t available for comment. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) had indicated a few days back that they were planning to go after Bittorrent sites because an increasing amount of movies, games and was being traded in torrent form.