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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