A few links to use if you’re interested in keeping up with this on-going story about the possibly-illegal takedown of The Pirate Bay website (along with a whole bunch of other servers) and their return:

TPB Issue English Translation A website dedicated to translating Sweedish news articles about this story into English.

The take down of The Pirate Bay A blog written by Mikael Viborg, the legal advisor to The Pirate Bay who was detained by the police and forced to give DNA evidence.

YARR! Swedish police site broadsided after Pirate Bay raid An article from Ars Technica about the DoS attack on Polisen.se, the sweedish police website.

Understand me, I am not advocating piracy. However, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend;” the RIAA and MPAA have proven themselves to be dedicated to the destruction of “fair use” in its place forcing upon us a system of “paid use,” and so any organization with the guts to poke them in the eye looks pretty good to me, frankly. You have to have some grudging admiration for this outfit and how quickly they returned, thumbing their nose at Hollyweird (check out their website at thepiratebay.org to see what I mean - or just look at the graphic pulled from there)…and the fact that the MPAA is implicated in what is possibly an illegal act (according to the laws of Sweeden, anyway) is actually fueling the rise of the Piratbyrån political party.

Could turn out that Sweeden ends up with a more reasonable copyright system than the U.S., particularly if some of the goofy, anti-consumer laws the **AA’s are pushing through purchased representatives like Sen. Diane Feinstein become law. The balance has shifted so far away from the consumer to the conglomerates that the original authors of the Constitution must be spinning in their graves…