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This is just awesome, thanks for spending the time to make this video!

As I’ve previously blogged, the traffic to TPB in Italy is redirected to Ifpi. Since they suck at how internets work, they didn’t understand that bloggers and geeks would easily find out that this server belongs to Ifpi. Checking the reverse DNS showed that it was the same server as pro-music.org - an Ifpi campaign site - was running on.

The reverse DNS have now mysteriously changed. It’s no longer got pro-music.org as a reverse, it’s “localhost” instead. Still, it’s already in print and the information was stored many places.

So their lame attempt of obstruction of justice has no effect - instead, they’re simply showing that they did something stupid and trying to hide the error. But the internets never forget. This is hopefully going to bite them in the ass.

Earlier this week the Swedish stasi-government decided - against the peoples wishes - to wiretap all internet and telephone traffic in order to protect Sweden against threats. As you all know, being a neutral country makes Sweden a target for all the terrorists of the world, apparantly.

The wiretap law has been intensely discussed in the blogosphere and it’s very nice to see that people care about the subject. Interesting is also that Belgium decided to take Sweden to the Strasbourg court which I hope more countries will follow.

Many people have asked me what we’re planning to do - and the answer is “A lot!”. We’re going to help out in any way we can with fighting the law. This week we’re going to add SSL to The Pirate Bay. We’re also going to help out making a website about easy encryption - both for your harddrives and your net traffic. As some people know, we’re running a system for VPN-tunnels already and we’re going to lower the price for that as well and open it up for international users as well.

More stuff is planned - together with other people that work against the law we’ve talked about asking the international ISPs to block traffic to Sweden. Yes, that’s right! We want Sweden to be banned from the Internet. The ISPs need to block Sweden in order to protect their own customers integrity since everything they do on Swedish ISPs networks will be logged and searched.

One of the most interesting questions about all of this is that FRA bought the 5th fastest super computer in the world in order to handle the wiretap. But they bought it two years ago! It smells a bit rotten in my world to have that much confidence to buy a system like that without even a law passed that makes it legal to use it. Nobody discusses this issue, but I think we should dig a bit about it.

Yesterday we reported that the responsible police officer for The Pirate Bay investigation is now employed by Warner Bros.

Today, IDG news talked to the prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall about what this means for the investigation. Apparantly this is normal and has happened before. He sees no problem with this man being employed just moments after his work with The Pirate Bay case has been filed. The past two years of this mans life has been focused on finding out our intimate details, secrets, no matter if they’re illegal or not. All the information is supposed to be handled gently by the police in order to keep us, the suspects, safe. Only information that will be used in the court are supposed to reach the other party since the rest is considered irrelevant to the case. Things like sexual habits, alcohol consumption, friends, family and so on are already checked into by the police.

Roswall thinks that the copyright industry like to employ swedish police personell for their skill. Many of us computer skilled are laughing a bit about the way the Swedish IT-police forces work. They are simply not good at their job. Or well, it turns out they are good at their job for their employers-to-be.

So my suggestion to solve this is - Hire me! I want to work for the Swedish IT-police. I have been using computers for 20 years, I’ve done a lot of high-tech stuff and I have a background both in hacking and the demo scene. And I have a lot of inside information. I’ll be a perfect skilled employee and I’ll probably have more knowledge about computers and (computer-) networking than the current employees.

Also, trust me file sharers - I’ll of course be objective but there’s no worries for you, since I’ll just close down all the cases against you. And it’s not a problem, because I’ll still be objective, according to the prosecutor! And if there’s a case against The Pirate Bay, of course I’ll be objective. I might work with it, but not a problem.

Röta.

I’m getting used to filing charges against the government now. But this time it’s not a thing i’m involved in personally, but I just feel really upset about.

Some background;
In March earlier this year the Swedish police did a raid at a 31 year old mans apartment. The charges was illegal file sharing and they took his computer along with optical media and such. Even though it has been set a standard based on previous court cases that file sharing in Sweden is not severe enough to do a raid they still did, probably because of pressure from the organisations behind the police report.

Those organisations are AntipiratbyrÃ¥n (APB, The bureau of anti-piracy) and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the usual suspects. And what’s the big deal? Well. The prosecutor in the case decided that nobody at the police was good enough to check the harddrives for the media, so she decided that the police had to hand over the mans harddrives to APB and IFPI to do the actual investigation. She wanted them to check for the shared media, to come up with the evidence, in the same case where they are the accusing part!

APB and IFPI are commercial interest organisations for some of the larger companies in the world. People that spend money on drugs to please their partners. People that spend millions of dollars on greasing politicians all over the world. Handing over personal data, like this guys e-mail, to these people means he might not need a sentence from the swedish court system. And the evidence itself should be dismissed by the courts. And the prosecutor should be fired!

It’s hopefully unprecedented that this has happened. It’s hopefully the last time. And I’ve done my part in this by filing official charges against the prosecutor to the Justice Ombudsman. For all people living in Sweden that might read this, please do the same. Click here to get more information about how to do it.

The MPAA-”hacker” is spilling his guts in Wired.
Not really hot news, but still interesting. It’s funny how the copyright lobby is “permitted” to break the law to fight the things they do not agree with.
MediaDefender was one example. This is another - and do you remember that they put private investigators to follow Gottfrid and Fredrik around? Everything is ok for them. They use their economical muscles to break/bend the laws as they seem fit and they get away with it for most part.

In the case of the insider at TorrentSpy, it’s a classic example of industrial espionage. They’ve signed a contract to get information from this guy about TorrentSpy, The Pirate Bay, eXeem (SuprNova) and Mininova. And the insider was in direct contact with John Malcolm, the Executive Vice President (and Director of World-Wide Anti-Piracy) of MPAA. It’s always the upper management that condone these things, it’s not the little people as they try to make it look like. The little people would have understood that there was no connection between TorrentSpy and TPB. In their world we would be considered competitors so I can’t understand what they where looking for there to start with. Actually, during this time I was not especially happy with Justin and if they caught any e-mail between us, it was pretty much not nice words I would guess. Now I’m quite happy he’s fighting the cause, all respect to him for that. (Although, I’m still pretty much upset with his FileRights-initiative…)

I’m starting to think that we’ve had enough by now. This is more and more looking like a war. The war between good and evil, the war between the future and the past. It’s the oil of the 21st century - people will do whatever in order to win. Their money against our knowledge and spirit. And I know who will win. And we won’t take any prisoners.