DMac
7th September 2010, 10:22 AM
Pirate Bay down, police raids across Europe (http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/7/pirate-bay-down-police-swoop-across-europe/)
snips
UPDATE, 15:11 GMT: Site currently unavailable again.
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.
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.
snips
UPDATE, 15:11 GMT: Site currently unavailable again.
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.
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.