Police confiscated The Pirate Bay equipment, the site does not work

Official statements from the "Pirate Bay" yet

This morning, The Pirate Bay went offline for the first time in several months. The site remains inaccessible around the world. No reasons were reported.

Portal TorrentFreak has published information about the raid of the Swedish police that took place today.

Were confiscated servers, computers and other equipment. Source TorrentFreak reported on the focus of these actions against The Pirate Bay, although official comments have not yet been.

Swedish authorities confirmed that the local police raided the operation to protect intellectual property. Representatives of government agencies did not clarify their goals and the place where the raid was conducted.
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But conclusions about the seriousness of what is happening can be made on the involvement of the chief of the national police.

Fredrik Ingblad, the prosecutor of file exchange cases, speaks about the importance of the events: “There were several police officers and computer forensics. The raid began this morning and continued in the afternoon. Several servers and computers were seized, but I cannot say exactly how much. ”

Ingblad also confirmed that there were no arrests during the raid. TorrentFreak has data on at least one arrest.

Together with The Pirate Bay, EZTV, Torrage, Zoink, Istole and Suprbay.org have gone offline.

The Pirate Bay is the world's largest directory for searching BitTorrent files. In practice, this means that it is with its help that the user can download illegal content. The story of Pirate Bay is a multitude of legal proceedings and legal prosecutions. Not so long ago, the biggest tracker of the world OpenBitTorrent has gone offline and still does not work.