Pirate Bay Thumbs Nose at Prosecutor: "We Are Really Good at Copying"

Hakan Roswall, the Swedish prosecutor going after popular torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay has apparently asked for more time to review evidence before filing charges. The Pirate Bay was raided last year, and according to Swedish law, prosecutors have one year to file charges. Time's up for Roswall on June 1, and although he's pledged to press charges, it would appear that he's still not ready to make his case. Apparently (and I say apparently because the report comes from a Swedish paper, and I don't speak European, so I'm relying on The Pirate Bay's account here) Roswall claims he needs more time to go over encrypted data found on the computers. Hogwash, says the Pirate Bay. Shennanigans. Horsefeathers.

The Pirate Bay fires back that Roswall is talking not about its files, but rather encrypted data that was found on other customers of Web host PRQ's machines. It adamantly claims that none of its data was encrypted and that the whole search is a ruse:

There was no encrypted harddrives, partitions or even loop files on the servers that belong to The Pirate Bay. The encrypted data he is talking about must therefore belong to the PRQ customers. It is our firm belief that either Hakan Roswall is using The Pirate Bay raid as a cover-up for going through other peoples data or that he is about to take a long holiday and do not want to work this summer.... If the court grants Hakan Roswall any more time extension on this case it is clearly for going through other data than The Pirate Bay's.

Never a wallflower, The Pirate Bay also goes on to slap Roswall around some more for taking so long to return the seized drives: "Honestly, we would have copied the data in less than a day, but then again we are really good at copying." Oh, snap! Now that's how you prove your innocence!

Oh, wait.