A little late, yes, but worthy of discussion.
The Swedish police, with a force of 50 policemen, raided not only the house in which the Pirate Bay servers lay, but also several private homes all over the country, connected to the Pirate Bay. They didn't just take Pirate Bay servers, but other companies' servers, hosting from the same ISP - sites including the Swedish piracy bureau and istheshit.net.
This raid followed a police report filed by the Swedish Anti-Piracy bureau, having harrassed The Pirate Bay to no avail for several years.
Discuss - let this thread be the spiritual sequel to the "Warez - Right or wrong?"-thread.
I think it's pretty bullshittay by the Swedish police. First of all, they did no investigation at all on their own, or so it seems, or else they'd known that the Pirate Bay servers held no copyrighted material, only torrent files. But, the police and IT, you know.
Anyway, what's worse is: They're following the Anti-Piracy bureau's and the entertainment industry's word blindly, without even questioning the validity of the request.
Dreadful.
Hopefully, the Pirate Bay attorney will kick the shit out of them and sue the Swedish state to hell, but that's not really likely to happen.