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Police raid sparks piracy debate in Sweden
>> From iht.com:
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When the police raided 10 locations across central Sweden last week, shutting down a popular file-sharing site called The Pirate Bay, it seemed that online piracy in this highly wired country had been dealt a massive blow.
Hollywood appeared delighted that a threat against the economic underpinnings of the movie business had been removed, even gleeful that the openly provocative founders of the site had been taken into custody.
"The operators of The Pirate Bay have publicly ridiculed copyright holders and taunted law enforcement for years, claiming immunity to copyright laws," the Motion Picture Association of America said. "The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a reminder to pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbors for Internet copyright thieves."
But as the dust begins to settle on the empty racks where The Pirate Bay's impounded servers had been stacked, the effects of the raid no longer appear so straightforward. There are signs of a backlash, underscoring a deep rift between the government and industry stance on copyright laws in the Internet era and the more liberal views held by Sweden's technology-savvy youth.
By Saturday, The Pirate Bay site was mostly online again.
Neij (main operators of The Pirate Bay) said the site, which judging by the drop in overall Internet traffic registered after the raid was responsible for close to one-third of the total Internet traffic in Sweden, should come out of the ordeal stronger than ever.
"Today, millions of additional people have heard about The Pirate Bay," he said in an interview. "We will have huge numbers of new users."
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