Swedish 'The Pirate Bay' demo
p2p news / p2pnet: Piratpartiet, Piratbyrån, Grön ungdom, Liberala Ungdomsförbundet and Ung vänster organized a one-hour demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden, in response to the raid on The Pirate Bay when more than 100 servers were seized.
"The demands of the demonstration were that the Swedish goverment, instead of criminalizing more than one million of their citizens should seek a compromise in the issue," says a Pirate Watch post.
The lamescream media are reporting that the Swedish police were behind the bust, which temporarily closed TPB down.
The instigator, however, was Hollywood's MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), which now routinely uses tax-payer funded international law enforcement agencies to do its corporate dirty work.
The actions do, "nothing to stop the pirates [counterfeiters], and everything to stop normal people enjoying things the[y] have legitimately (not to mention the fact the industry isn't loosing anthying [sic] by it)," posts Spike on the Pirate Watch site.
" If the pirate party had any balls whatsoever, they'd just call for a boycott," says an anonymous post, going on, "Course, that would mean sacrifice, and most persons involved in this fiasco don't seem willing to do so. Perhaps they're all a lot of whiny childish hypocrites."
But, " Wait... a boycott of what?"  asks another comment. "Their own government? The police?"
Outrage was aimed at Swedish minister of justice Thomas Bodström, "who gave in to American orders," states the poster, adding, "do you propose that they boycott the law in general and just start murdering people to accomplish their goals?... Personally I'm just slightly disapointed [sic] international protests weren't organized."
Digg this story. Also See:
Pirate Watch - Pictures from the piracy demonstration, June 03, 2006
Swedish police - Return of the Pirate Bay, June 1, 2006
p2pnet newsfeeds for your site.
rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss
Mobile - http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
NOTE: p2pnet is being sued by Sharman Networks and Nikki Hemming, ceo of p2p application Kazaa. "The suit is a little odd, since P2PNet.net is a champion of peer-to-peer file-sharing, which is the same business that Kazaa is in," says The Globe & Mail. If you'd like to help p2pnet, or find out more, please go here. Other stories on p2pnet.net:
200px
Swedish  site The Pirate Bay is back online following the Swedish police raid of their office on May 31.

Pirate Bay has previously announced on their website that they "will be up and fully functional within a day or two". A Pirate Bay spokesperson identified as brokep told Slyck News that if necessary, they'd reopen in another country. The reopened website is currently hosted in the Netherlands.

The web page titles have been changed to ''The Police Bay'' and the indexing capability is reduced, with the search function disabled, though this is expected to change.  All searches are now returned with the error message:

:No hits due to politics

:The search function will be back later today

Searches can still be done with Google and other search engines by adding site:thepiratebay.org to the search. Most attempts at downloading .torrent files resulted in  error messages during the first hours after the site went back online, however torrent downloads seem to be working fairly well now. 

Currently 11:00 a.m. June 6 , The Pirate Bay seems to be back and operational, but downloads still aren't working too well; you may be able to, you may not. There's probably a lot of traffic right now.