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Pirate Bay Down, Police Raids Across Europe
September 8, 2010 - 8:19am -- jim
Pirate Bay Down, Police Raids Across Europething.co.uk
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...
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Pirate Bay Down, Police Raids Across Europething.co.uk
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... _______________________________________________