IT'S ALMOST LIKE THE RECORD AND MOVIE INDUSTRIES ARE LOCKED IN A FUTILE CIRCLE OF TIME-WASTING

Let's hope the RIAA and the MPAA managed to organise some sort of celebratory barbecues for this weekend, following the police raid on ThePirateBay.org, one of the bigger bittorrent servers.

After the raids on their servers in Sweden, the site is back up and running in the Netherlands:

A statement on ThePirateBay.org website questioned the reason behind the police action.

"The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existence of a web service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained," said the statement.

"Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing whether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal," it added.

In effect, all the heavy handed cop action has done is bring the name of ThePirateBay.org to people who hadn't heard of it before.

We don't know much about football, but that sounds like an own goal to us.

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