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The Pirate Bay goes offline following raid by Swedish police

Other torrent sites follow suit after servers seized.

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The Pirate Bay has a long history of successfully eluding the law with cat-and-mouse tactics of border-hopping and domain forwarding. But the law—specifically Swedish prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad—caught up with the BitTorrent indexer Tuesday in a raid on a data center in Stockholm.

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Ingblad told Radio Sweeden: 

“There were a number of police officers and digital forensics experts there. This took place during the morning and continued until this afternoon. Several servers and computers were seized, but I cannot say exactly how many.”

According to TorrentFreak, the raided data center is located in Nacka and built into a “mountain,” which indicates the center may have been Portlane. The Pirate Bay has not been the only casualty in this morning’s server-seizing actions—EZTV, Zoink, and Torrage are also among a list of torrent sites that are suddenly sending out 404 errors. 

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Rumors are abound as to which domain The Pirate Bay will pop up under next, but all proxies are (for now) currently down.

H/T TorrentFreak | Photo via annann126/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

 
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