To the uninitiated, The Pirate Bay sounds like the subtitle for yet another Pirates of the Caribbean film. To the informed-but-totally-not-partaking-because-it’s-illegal, the Bay is a famous torrent website. Earlier this morning, it went down after Swedish police raided an undisclosed location associated with the site.
According to Torrent Freak:
“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.
Police are staying quiet on the exact location of the operation and the targets involved but the fact that the national police IP chief is involved at this early stage suggests something sizable.
In addition, expert file-sharing case prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad has commented on the raid, further adding weight to the incident.
“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.
No other details, including whether or not any arrests were made, were released by the authorities. This isn’t the first time the website and its organizers have been in trouble with the Swedish police, but today’s raid seems like a really big deal.
Most of you are probably primed to imagine a scenario a la The Wire, but my imagination immediately went elsewhere.
Source: Torrent Freak
