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The Pirate Bay may not have been sent to Davy Jones' locker by the recent Swedish police raid on its servers, but the legal assault on the site made a lot of Swedes very förbannade. Some of them apparently thought it would be fun to take down a police website, while others were content to vent their outrage at politicians, who were accused of bowing to pressure from the US. Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom took to the airwaves to reassure his fellow Scandinavians that this was not, in fact, the case.

Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom denied allegations in a Swedish television report that the government ordered the crackdown on a U.S. request. "I have never acted individually or spoken about how the police and prosecutors should act, nor will I do it," Bodstrom was quoted as saying by Sweden news agency TT. Sweden's constitution bars ministers from directing police investigations.

It turns out that the minister was choosing his words carefully. While he may not have personally ordered the raid, a new report in the Washington Post claims that US authorities were involved in alerting their Swedish counterparts to the existence of The Pirate Bay. At an April meeting, the US delegation expressed its displeasure at the site.

From Ars Technica