Swedish police raid Pirate Bay
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 12/09/2014 03:51 PM
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The Pirate Bay site has been taken down after an early morning raid was carried out by Swedish authorities in Stockholm; multiple servers, computers, and other items were seized during the raid.
According to TorrentFreak authorities have just confirmed that local police carried out a raid in Stockholm this morning as part of an operation to protect intellectual property.
“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” read a statement from Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement.
Police are staying quiet on the exact location of the operation and the targets involved but the fact that the national police IP chief is involved at this early stage suggests something sizable.
The Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org as well as Bayimg.com and Pastebay.net have also been taken offline.
Google almost seemed to have a heads up on the raid as they removed several popular third-party Pirate Bay apps from the Play Store yesterday.
Gizmodo correctly points out, the Pirate Bay has been in hot water for a long time. All of the Pirate Bay's founders are in jail. The first raid on the service goes all the way back to 2006. It's hard to imagine that this is The Pirate Bay's final act, as it always seems to come back. But even if it dies in name, torrents and piracy will live on under some other name.
According to TorrentFreak authorities have just confirmed that local police carried out a raid in Stockholm this morning as part of an operation to protect intellectual property.
“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” read a statement from Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement.
Police are staying quiet on the exact location of the operation and the targets involved but the fact that the national police IP chief is involved at this early stage suggests something sizable.
The Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org as well as Bayimg.com and Pastebay.net have also been taken offline.
Google almost seemed to have a heads up on the raid as they removed several popular third-party Pirate Bay apps from the Play Store yesterday.
Gizmodo correctly points out, the Pirate Bay has been in hot water for a long time. All of the Pirate Bay's founders are in jail. The first raid on the service goes all the way back to 2006. It's hard to imagine that this is The Pirate Bay's final act, as it always seems to come back. But even if it dies in name, torrents and piracy will live on under some other name.
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