Fractured Silhouette
January 30th, 2013, 10:14 AM
POLICE RAIDS across Europe have managed to take down popular Bit-torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay.
The website, which is hosted by the same firm that houses servers for Wikileaks, was hit hard by the authorities as they moved in on alleged filesharers armed with nothing more than IP addresses. According to Torrentfreak, police in 14 countries throughout Europe were involved, including the United Kingdom.
Talking to the web hosting site PRQ, the firm that provides hosting services to The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks, it said that five coppers tipped up asking for the persons using certain IP addresses. The chap from PRQ admitted to handing over email addresses but added "it is rare that our clients have email addresses that are traceable".
At the time of writing The Pirate Bay's website is down, though as its tracker operates on a distributed hash table (DHT), the outage will merely serve to stop the acquisition of torrent files and not cease actual file sharing itself.
Torrentfreak also got word from a Swedish prosecutor that the raid had nothing to do with Wikileaks. While The Pirate Bay's website is down, Wikileaks is still operational, suggesting that for once it isn't the centre of attention for law enforcement authorities. It is being reported that the police seized a number of servers during the raids.
Given the noise The Pirate Bay made about the resilience of its hosting, one wonders how long it will take before the resourceful lads get it back on its feet.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1731683/police-raids-the-pirate-bay
I was confused as to why I couldn't access the website earlier today. I for one hope they get it back online soon. Stupid law enforcement, they ruin all the fun.
The website, which is hosted by the same firm that houses servers for Wikileaks, was hit hard by the authorities as they moved in on alleged filesharers armed with nothing more than IP addresses. According to Torrentfreak, police in 14 countries throughout Europe were involved, including the United Kingdom.
Talking to the web hosting site PRQ, the firm that provides hosting services to The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks, it said that five coppers tipped up asking for the persons using certain IP addresses. The chap from PRQ admitted to handing over email addresses but added "it is rare that our clients have email addresses that are traceable".
At the time of writing The Pirate Bay's website is down, though as its tracker operates on a distributed hash table (DHT), the outage will merely serve to stop the acquisition of torrent files and not cease actual file sharing itself.
Torrentfreak also got word from a Swedish prosecutor that the raid had nothing to do with Wikileaks. While The Pirate Bay's website is down, Wikileaks is still operational, suggesting that for once it isn't the centre of attention for law enforcement authorities. It is being reported that the police seized a number of servers during the raids.
Given the noise The Pirate Bay made about the resilience of its hosting, one wonders how long it will take before the resourceful lads get it back on its feet.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1731683/police-raids-the-pirate-bay
I was confused as to why I couldn't access the website earlier today. I for one hope they get it back online soon. Stupid law enforcement, they ruin all the fun.