09-09-2010, 05:29 AM
Police in up to 14 countries have carried out raids against locations suspected of housing file sharing servers or equipment, on the morning of September 7th 2010.
Several of the raids were carried out in Sweden, the Swedish Internet service provider that hosts both The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks has denied rumours of a police raid, explaining that no computers or other goods have been seized although they've admitted that officers had visited them to ask questions over two suspect IP addresses.
PRQ director Mikael Viberg states: "At 9:00 this morning, five policemen were here, 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."
Simultaneous raids are also said to have taken place in The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
The seemingly invulnerable site has been dragged through the courts more times than anyone cares to remember and amazingly has survived a number of attacks from copyright holders.
The big question still remains where will the authorities turn next once prosecution takes place. The Pirate Bay may yet survive this action, since the website is already back online. These raids were a part of targeting the so-called 'Warez Scene' and have been in planning for two years.
Several of the raids were carried out in Sweden, the Swedish Internet service provider that hosts both The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks has denied rumours of a police raid, explaining that no computers or other goods have been seized although they've admitted that officers had visited them to ask questions over two suspect IP addresses.
PRQ director Mikael Viberg states: "At 9:00 this morning, five policemen were here, 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."
Simultaneous raids are also said to have taken place in The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
The seemingly invulnerable site has been dragged through the courts more times than anyone cares to remember and amazingly has survived a number of attacks from copyright holders.
The big question still remains where will the authorities turn next once prosecution takes place. The Pirate Bay may yet survive this action, since the website is already back online. These raids were a part of targeting the so-called 'Warez Scene' and have been in planning for two years.