The largest torrent site in the world has been closed by the police!
Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site was closed by Swedish police, who raided the location in Stockholm where they were famous trackers servers. According to TorrentFreak, the Swedish authorities have confirmed that all site servers and back equipment were confiscated and .org and .se domains were blocked. “There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,” Paul Pintér, the police national coordinator for IP enforcement, said in a statement, according to TorrentFreak. Swedish police have not confirmed whether they were operated during the raid and arrests them.
“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.
It’s not the first time it happens with Pirate Bay, but last year the last founding member, the third was arrested. The police action took place yesterday, and the site was dropped all day. It was not long and the site was already standing at piratebay.cr. Pirates have directed the vessel to Costa Rica after failure of Sweden, and now the site works normally.
Update: The .CR domain listed above is now diverting users to another domain (thepiratebay.ee) which demands anything from $4 to £4 for users to access torrents – AVOID.
