Anonymous Announces Operation Pirate Bay In Response To Police Raids
Web hosting company PRQ was raided by the police yesterday as the authorities were searching for servers containing copyrighted content. The Web host was founded by two founders of The Pirate Bay, and as such, people freaked out when The Pirate Bay also went down. As of this writing, The Pirate Bay is still down, but the staff claimed it was just a power outage.
Even if The Pirate Bay wasn’t taken down, a number of other torrent sites went down as a result of the police raid. In response, Anonymous has announced Operation Pirate Bay. They are attacking Swedish government Web sites as a protest against what they feel is “a crime against freedom of information.”
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As of this writing, Anonymous has managed to take down a number of Swedish governmental Web sites. They have also merged Operation Pirate Bay into the Free Assange and Free Anakata movements. Svartholm, who goes by Anakata, was recently deported to Sweden from Cambodia.
For now, it looks like Anonymous is using this as an excuse to continue their campaign against Sweden. DDoS campaigns rarely ever bring about any kind of change, and only serve to anger most Internet users. It may be the Internet equivalent of a sit in, but Anonymous may want to change their tactics in the future if they really want to achieve any kind of change.
It should also be noted once again that The Pirate Bay has not been taken down by Swedish authorities. The official story so far is that a power outage is affecting the site. Many members of Anonymous are already relaying this information to people, but other members are going ahead with the attacks regardless. Those who just want The Pirate Bay back shouldn’t have to wait much longer as the site said they’ll be back within the hour.
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