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The CCC interviews ThePirateBay

Written by Roberto Preatoni (SyS64738)

Saturday, 03 June 2006

As you might know, the famous Swedish torrent tracker ThePirateBay.org 's servers have been recently seized, in truly misterious circumnstances by the Swedish Police. As promised in the press release posted on their website, since a few hours ago ThePirateBay.org is back online, after moving the servers to a different country, up to the moment when the Swedish police will release the seized equipment (ThePirateBay.org members and political supporters are quite confident in a happy end of the story)

But do you know what exactly happened during the police raid? Read this news to learn from the voice of the CCC how things went... guaranteed, you won't believe your ears!

Tim Pritlove of the German hacker community Chaos Computer Club interviewed "Peter", one of the current operators of ThePirateBay.org in a sweet podcast in which Peter reveals a lot of interesting things about ThePiratebay itself and some incredible things such:

Did you know that ThePirateBay runs on 2gigs bandwidth but the generated torrent traffic sums up to 50% of the total bandwidth used in Sweden?

Did you know that ThePirateBay gets an average of 20,000 new incoming connections every second?

Did you know that during the raid the Swedish police seized something like 300 servers, only a few of them belonging to ThePirateBay.org and the rest to innocent customers, including cable patches and mouses?

Did you know that apparently six weeks before the police raid, two Swedish politicians had a private hearing at The White House to talk about "The PirateBay problem"?

Did you know that after the raid, police took DNA samples from all ThePirateBay.org members, including their lawyer?

If you want to know all of the above, including much more neat details, we welcome you to hear the Chaos Computer Club podcast .

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