Police Has No Evidence Against The Pirate Bay

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by Ernesto

It has been almost a year now since the controversial raid on The Pirate Bay. Recently, Prosecutor Håkan Roswall said that he was determined to press charges against the admins of The Pirate Bay. However, new information has leaked which shows that the Swedish police has nothing to give to the district attorney, and doesn’t have a strong case.

During the Pirate Bay raid in May of last year, the Swedish police confiscated 180 servers, most of which had no trace of TPB’s data. Despite the fact that the “offending” data that needs to be analysed has already been copied, the servers have not been returned to TPB up until today.

The police and prosecutor Håkan Roswall desperately tried to find something they could use against the Pirate Bay crew, but it now seems that they have very little to go on. Brokep, one of the Pirate Bay admins writes on his blog:

“I talk to alot of people that are somehow connected to other interesting people - one of them told me that the police officer in charge of the case against The Pirate Bay actually has _nothing_ to give the District Attorney. Still he’s pressing charges.”

Last December, the district court decided that the servers, including some servers of The Pirate Bay’s ISP, PRQ, that have nothing to do with the BitTorrent tracker, would remain in custody till June 1, 2007. Time is running out guys.

In hindsight, the raid was highly unsuccessful. TPB was only down for a couple of days before they returned in full force, even stronger than before, thanks to the widespread media attention.

Source: Torrent Freak

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The Prosecutor Håkan Roswall is going to apply for an extend on the case, his saying they're not done with the computers and that they're gonna try crack the viritual encryptions that are on the computers.

EDIT: His trying to extend to 1 october 2007