Popular torrent site The Pirate Bay and its affiliate websites go offline after its data center had been raided by the Swedish police yesterday, December 9.
According to Torrent Freak, Swedish authorities have confirmed that their local police carried out a raid in Stockholm yesterday as part of an operation to protect intellectual property. They, however, are remaining mum on the exact details of the whereabouts and their targets.
“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.
“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,” expert file-sharing case prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad commented on Radio Sweden regarding the incident, further adding weight to the incident.
Along with The Pirate bay, several affilites such as Suprbay and, Pastebay, and other torrent websites EZTV, Zoink, Torrage and the Istole tracker went offline.
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