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[Nvyseal]

Early reports suggest that The PirateBay has had its servers seized by Swedish police.

The site disappeared offline this morning, with no explanation. According to Slyck News, which claims to have spoken to a spokesperson at the site, the servers were seized in a police RAID, with police investigating whether or not illegal activities were being conducted.

""The police right now is taking all of our servers, to check if there is a crime there or not (they are actually not sure)," ThePirateBay.org spokesperson “brokep” told Slyck.com."

Sweden's copyright laws are incredibly liberal, a fact which has allowed the site to operate the world's largest BitTorrent tracker with impunity. There is still doubt as to whether or not the site has actually committed any crimes - it merely lists Torrents, rather than hosting copyrighted content.

Two PirateBay personnel were arrested, but vowed to move the site to another country if Swedish authorities took them offline permanently.

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[atsaunier]

We can all breathe again, turns out Piratebay are updating their servers with a new version! (not 100% sure onthis, i know they had a similer story last year when they was updating there servers)

Edited by atsaunier, 31 May 2006 - 04:50 PM.

[Nvyseal]

Oh i think something is going on

p2pnet
Business Week
Sydney Herald
ABC News
US Newswire
Reuters

and tons of others

[error51]

I hope this is just a routine update, but I think that all the news is probably accurate. FYI, it was one year ago to date that they tried that hoax when they were updating their servers. With any luck this is just another prank. If it is true I'm going to cry and cry and cry and cry.

[Nvyseal]

The PirateBay page has been updated:

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[error51]

Also today The Pirate Bay said "SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO". This could just be them trying to show full confidence in what is going on or it could be that they know something noone is sharing. Anyways I guess there still is some hope.