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- vivisector, on 10/12/2007, -6/+178The police cover the cameras because whatever they are going to do next probably isn't going to be exactly legal.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+107Anyone else find the "no photography permitted" sign slightly ironic?
- vetipc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+103They look more like bank robbers. I was expecting cops in uniforms.
- stomicron, on 10/12/2007, -19/+118Wow that's unbelievably boring.
Let's all agree to stop calling it a "raid." - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+99Because we don't have our favorite tracker back yet ;)
- tony23, on 10/12/2007, -5/+101Why not make it a torrent?
- BrandenWill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+90Do you know how much of a nerd I feel like right now? I am watching a video with no sound and subtitled in another language and it's just a bunch of people walking around servers, yet I can't take my eyes off of it. lol.
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -9/+77They probaly just wanted some torrents too ;)
- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61The bust was pretty mild, not much to see. I actually thought it was an actual bust where the cops busted in with a warrant yelling at everyone to shut the fxxx up and tell them where the servers were.
- jblithe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+60i saw text that promised "filmen slut" but they never showed any. :(
- jpwhitmore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51Do all Swedish police walk like robocop?
- espek, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53I had no idea PirateBay had such serious hardware? I worked for a large multinational that didn't have half those racks! Where's the money come from to pay for that gear and upkeep? That's some serious ***** in there! God damn I love those guys and the balls to stand up to the biggest names. We all say we would, but if you've ever been caught up in legal bullying -- let me tell you, it's gets scary fast. We may talk about it, but these guys did it for a long time, and that takes a lot of balls.
Show your colors:
http://enrique-espinosa.com/downloads/pirate.jpg - tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50Wow nice find. I don't see why the police would cover up the cameras unless they were going to do something they shouldn't...
- Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46They took pictures around the 45 second mark.
More importantly though, the video is missing sections. From time to time it skips a few seconds, from what I see, it normally skips a few seconds before showing the camera getting covered. - -=Ross=-, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44I like how one of the cops picks his nose right in front of the camera.
- vetipc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+46Yes indeed. You can't take pictures of the server racks, but it's perfectly legal to pull out the servers out of them (and take them home.)
- -=Ross=-, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40What would the servers do? Attack back?
- crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40That camo jacket reeeeally helps that agent blend in against those servers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+53WHAT THE HELL????? covering the cameras??? something is out of place here.....
- -=Ross=-, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37It was shared hosting. They all aren't just their servers.
Quote from TPB website:
The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks
*and other servers* - Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39At least we aren't watching two people dressed as Mario and Luigi race each other in SMB.
Oh wait, we did that too -.-;; - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37sorry to disappoint you but that said film over
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+39because they know if folks find them on the streets they will get beat on, cop or no cop for taking down the WORLD'S favorite tracker
and no, I wouldn't do that, but people can be idiots at times for the most irational things so... - FogDogg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33A mirror of the vid in case digg brings the video down again.
VLC plays it.
http://www.fogdogg.net/files/TPB.flv - bchang, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30I was kind of hopeing for something much more dramatical like a swat raid and them just running out with the servers and everyone on the ground.
- slythic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31Ha, I would have paid to see that...
Seems that doesn't happen much outside of the U.S. ??? - Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Yes, because those raids from the movies are real.
Well, I'm sure they are, when it's dealing with murder or drugs or something deemed 'dangerous'. Web servers, I'm sure they're not worried about computer nerds whipping out glocks. - boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32Argh. I wanted to digg your comment, but then you put spam at the end!
- winampman2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Was this video pirated?! :-O
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24"Web servers, I'm sure they're not worried about computer nerds whipping out glocks."
No, but they should be worried about geeks with thermite detonators! Start watching at approx. the 3 minute mark.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4147847319296070400&q=techtv+thermite - GamingLab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21this whole case is amazing promotion for PirateBay, they'll have a superb amount of new visitors surfing a site that made the media in the last week.
That aside, I'm just surprised how tidy the server room looks. No open doors, no notebooks on the ground connected to servers via 50m cross cables. Much unlike other locations I've seen. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20nikoniko.. don't take mpaa's claim and use it as fact. they claim piratebay makes $60,000 dollars a month from ads, but who knows what the truth is..
and to the others, most of the servers in there are owned by piratebay. a few of the racks were used by other smaller websites. - dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Well, security cameras skip. Most of them have motion detection systems in the camera and only record sporadic movement on screen. Since most of them are digital now days, they only record what they need to get the point across.
Old analog security systems recorded pretty regularly at 5-15 fps, and they could record about 24 hours of footage to a tape in this fashion. - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20@^. Wish I had a laughing floor.
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21How many laws do the RIAA and the MPAA break to bust these "criminal" (such as the 13 year old girl and the family without a computer)
- maloney_633, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Wow it took 50 police officers to do that. Talk about incompetence. I have a new theory to why the police site is off line, one of them tripped over the power cord or they confiscated there own servers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24"Where's the money come from to pay for that gear and upkeep?"
They were making over $60000 per month on advertising alone, plus took in some money from user donations. - FreakTrap, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19"I had no idea PirateBay had such serious hardware?"
Those doen't all belong to TBH, those are all of the racks in the entire datacenter.. - twisterX, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22I want to hear the google video one. Anyone have it downloaded.
- nagstaku, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20man, this isn't like the n'th time ive read something new and different about piratebay today ;)
- film42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16One guy was picking his nose... rolf
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14If the MPAA were smart, they'd buy some ad space on TPB when it returns. They sure helped it out with free advertising.
- SPARTACVS, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16The MPAA and the RIAA are a bunch of ***** gobblers.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Well, they *are* pirates. There should have at least been a swordfight.
- Cholito, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17the last person you see on EVERY camera is the bald guy (except for the first 2 cams hehehe)...isn't that weird?
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14someone needs to mashup a voice over and repost the video
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Once The Pirate Bay returns, let's post this video on there just for the heck of it.
- SpyDerMann, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Meanwhile, the hackers and spammers are TRULY breaking international laws ... intruding on your aunt Jebedeeza's PC and turning it into a spam zombie to launch DDOS attacks and whatnot. The US occupies the 10% of SPAM in the world, who knows how many of those computers are used to do click fraud and phishing. And while this problem (botnets), big enough to be matter of National Security, is happening in front of our noses, the US government is scandalized at.... *GASP* movie pirates!
Somebody has to get his priorities right. - andreo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16@CharlesDarwin
Uh, you were expecting Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte with maybe a little Jackie Chan thrown in?
Don't worry, COPs will be on tomorrow. You'll get your fix. -
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