Swedish Police Raid Torrent Site Pirate Bay, Site Offline
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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.
Update: The Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org is also offline. The same goes for Bayimg.com and Pastebay.net.
Breaking news story, more as we have it.
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.
Update: The Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org is also offline. The same goes for Bayimg.com and Pastebay.net.
Breaking news story, more as we have it.
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kat.ph is way better anyway
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Bully_Pulpit wrote: »kat.ph is way better anywaytrilla!
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Got that Cole Album before it was too late.....
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When will these come to realization they can't fight technology. What they should be doing is embracing peer to peer sharing and figure out how to make money off of it.
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@deathrowzorrow Your country ? sucks bruh. Muthafuckas have the cleanest air in the world and you ? don't have anything better to do than ? with our torrent sites. Smh...
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Bully_Pulpit wrote: »kat.ph is way better anyway
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That’s not gone stop ? , the internet is the wild west. I ? wit Mp3skull anyway!! The toothpaste been out the tube. ? not going back to paying for content.
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Damn swedish ? . A lil torrent never hurt nobody.
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If I owned a entertainment studio/label I'd want the ? taken down too.
....BUT I DONT OWN AN ENTERTAINMENT STUDIO OR LABEL SO............fml -
and btw yify has the cleanest movie rips online
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whoever run kickasstorrents and torrenthound is rubbing they hands like Birdman right now
"the game is ours, pleighboi" -
Knives Amilli wrote: »Got that Cole Album before it was too late.....
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Bully_Pulpit wrote: »and btw yify has the cleanest movie rips onlinehe has his own site that has them out before the torrent sites..... bluray rips and 3d.... ? is glorious
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GodSpeed215 wrote: »That’s not gone stop ? , the internet is the wild west. I ? wit Mp3skull anyway!! The toothpaste been out the tube. ? not going back to paying for content.
I used to use mp3 skull
Mp3 clan is better though
they have more songs and songs I can't find in 320kbps on mp3skull are usually on mp3 clan -
SoulseekNS
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y'all ? really think feds can't open the spoiler button too huh
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Aww I'm sick. Was just about to dl the full Roseanne series tonight too. ? .
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ain't ? to see here fam.. Sorry
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PB's been shut down before, they'll be back. Just gotta move their servers to a different country (like they did last time).
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That's some ?
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? gotdamnit ? ? ?
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Newsgroups ? .
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