It remains unclear if Pirate Bay can restart operations. Six years later, its operators decided to move it to the cloud so that it would be harder to shut down since it wasn't under a single jurisdiction, Wired reports.īy hosting their operation from multiple cloud hosting providers located in a number of countries, a single police raid would not be able to disrupt their operation. Tuesday’s raid was not a first for the Pirate Bay Swedish police conducted a similar one in 2006. The apps help users circumvent digital barriers put up by Internet providers to prevent access to the site. And just days ago, Google removed and banned third-party Pirate Bay apps from its Play store. The Pirate Bay also took a hit last week when a French court ordered Internet providers to block access to the site in France, Wired reports. Gottfrid, and Peter Sunde, the site’s third co-founder, of copyright infringement. Neij had been on the run since 2009, when a Swedish court convicted him, Mr. Last month another co-founder, Fredrick Neij, was arrested in Thailand. Tuesday’s raid was the latest and most crippling blow to a website that has come under increased pressure in recent months. Swedish authorities, American entertainment companies, and anti-piracy groups consider the peer-to-peer file-sharing service a blatant infringement on copyright laws. Torrent Freak, a news site that covers file sharing and copyright issues, notes that several sites related to Pirate Bay have also gone down. "Since the site was shut down shortly afterwards, it's clear that it had something to do with it.”
“I took the decision to bring a search warrant to this place as we found evidence it could have been used by the Pirate Bay,” Swedish prosecutor Frederik Ingbland told the Local, an English-language news site in Sweden.
It went offline Tuesday morning after police raided a server room in Stockholm over alleged copyright violations following a complaint by the Rights Alliance, an anti-piracy group in Sweden. The website is probably the most well-known peer-to-peer portal for downloading pirated content, such as movies and movies.
Swedish police have effectively shut down the Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing service, by seizing its servers and computers in a raid.
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