Pirate Bay raided......

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(http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/)BREAKING

Police in Sweden carried out a raid in Stockholm today, seizing servers, computers, and other equipment. At the same time The Pirate Bay and several other torrent-related sites disappeared offline. Although no official statement has been made, TF sources confirm action against TPB.

For many years The Pirate Bay has been sailing by the seat of its pants so any downtime is met with concern from its millions of users.

This morning, for the first time in months, The Pirate Bay
disappeared offline. A number of concerned users emailed TF for information but at that point technical issues seemed the most likely culprit.

However, over in Sweden 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.
In addition, expert file-sharing case prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad has commented on the raid, further adding weight to the incident.

“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,” Ingblad told SR.

Ingblad would not be drawn on any arrests during the operation but TorrentFreak has learned that police may have detained at least one man connected to the site.

While it seems certain that The Pirate Bay has been targeted today, it was not the only casualty. Several other torrent related sites including EZTV, Zoink, Torrage and the Istole tracker are also down.




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The Pirate Bay is known for sailing its ship from one place to another. It looks like TPB has set sail for a new land. The Pirate Bay moved to Costa Rica after Swedish police carried out a raid in Stockholm. The torrent website appeared with a new domain after the previous domain went offline.

Thepiratebay.se domain was unavailable for users across the globe. Many speculated that it can be due to some technical issue, but it was not any technical problem. It was an attack on The Pirate Bay.

Paul Pinter, national coordinator at Stockholm County Police for intellectual property talked about the crackdown on a server room.

"We had a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm because of a copyright infringement, and yes it was Pirate Bay," Paul said to Reuters
(via Sydney Morning Herald).

Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad talked to Radio Sweden and revealed that several computers and servers were taken and "a number" of digital forensic folks and officers were involved in the operation.

The Pirate Bay resurfaced with a new domain - thepiratebay.cr, but users are not able to search the website and download. As of now, the domain is just a placeholder as the website shows "500 internal server error, sorry, something went wrong."

Apart from The Pirate Bay, websites like EZTV, Pastebay.net, Suprbay.org, Torrage, Zoink, Istole and Bayimg.com also went offline and were not accessible.

Meanwhile,
Google also removed The Pirate Bay apps from Play Store. PirateApp, The Pirate Bay Proxy, The Pirate Bay Mirror and The Pirate Bay Premium were removed by Google.

"REASON FOR REMOVAL: Violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content Policy. Please refer to the IP infringement and impersonation policy help article for more information," read the email sent to the developers.

It has to be seen how long it will take The Pirate Bay to bounce back and start the operations. It is likely that it will operate from Costa Rica with the new domain.