http://www.techi.com/2010/09/pirate-bay-sunk-at-last-after-europe-wide-raids/
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/7/pirate-bay-down-police-swoop-across-europe/
The Pirate Bay is down this morning after reports of raids across Europe.
According to thinq.co.uk, police in up to 14 countries raided locations
suspected of housing file sharing servers or equipment.
The seemingly invulnerable site has survived a number of attacks from
copyright holders through the courts, and has become a beacon for file
sharers and those who disagree with the position of content creators about
the internet.
Predictably, most of the raids occurred in Sweden, although raids are said to
have taken place in the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Britain, the
Czech Republic and Hungary.
The big question remains where the authorities will turn next once
prosecution takes place. The Pirate Bay may yet survive this action, since
reports are already rife that the site is back up even though the trackers
are still down.
Even if The Pirate Bay were to be obsoleted, other torrent trackers remain,
plus the many other sources of piracy such as Usenet and IRC.
The sum total of this morning’s action is the questioning of four
individuals, which again brings into question the cost and effort required to
even attempt to address the worldwide problem of piracy.
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/7/pirate-bay-down-police-swoop-across-europe/
UPDATE, 15:11 GMT: Site currently unavailable again.
UPDATE, 14:02 GMT: Pirate Bay site now back online in UK, though torrent
trackers appear not to be working. Further news as soon as it's available.
Torrent-tracking site The Pirate Bay is currently unavailable as reports come
in of co-ordinated police raids against file sharers across Europe.
Police in up to 14 countries carried out raids against suspected file-sharing
servers this morning.
According to file-sharing news site TorrentFreak, the bulk of police action
seems to have taken place in Sweden.
Swedish Internet service provider ISP, which hosts both The Pirate Bay and
whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, earlier denied rumours of a police raid,
saying that officers had visited them to ask questions over two suspect IP
addresses, and that no computers or other goods had been seized.
Swedish Prosecutor Frederick Ingblad confirmed to Swedish newspaper Expressen
that WikiLeaks was not involved in the current action.
"At 9:00 this morning, five policemen were here," PRQ director Mikael Viberg
said. "They were interested in who was using two IP addresses from 2009 and
onwards.
"We have no records of our clients but we're handing over the e-mail
addresses for those behind the IPs. However, it's rare that our clients have
mail addresses that are traceable."
It appears that a number of other locations in Sweden have been the subject
of police action, including Stockholm, Malmö, Umeå university and
Eskilstuna.
Four individuals are said to be being questioned on suspicion of breaching
copyright law. Servers and computers are reported to have been seized.
Simultaneous raids are also said to have been carried out in The Netherlands,
Belgium, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
The action, targeting the so-called 'Warez Scene', is said to have been in
planning for two years, and is believed to have taken place at the request of
Belgian authorities.
We'll keep you updated as further details emerge.
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