The Pirate Bay, arguably the Internet’s biggest source of torrents has been taken offline after the Swedish police raided their Stockholm offices.
The torrenting world took a hit this week after the Sweddish police seized servers, computers, and other equipment from The Pirate Bay, which has been rendered offline ever since. The reason? Protecting intellectual property, as they accuse them of enabling piracy.
Although technical problems and downtime happens a lot with this type of website, every time one goes offline users hold their breath and wonder if the site will ever return. That’s exactly what happened to The Pirate Bay, as the site disappeared offline, with the police raid being confirmed afterwards.
While the exact location of the raid and targets have not been revealed, we know the national police IP chief is involved, so it must be quite an operation as it is quite early. Furthermore, The Pirate Bay was far from the only site to go down as EZTV, Zoink, Torrage and the Istole tracker are also experiencing downtime that might or not be related.
Via Torrent Freak
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