Torrent Directory Pirate Bay Raided Again, Currently Offline
The most resilient torrent directory in the world, the Pirate Bay, has been raided by Swedish police for the first time since 2006. Also read: Peter Sunde Released. Update 12/10/14 2:56AM CST: the Pirate Bay is alive and well in Costa Rica. The Pirate Bay Gets Raided. The site routinely goes down for various reasons from hacking to overload, so initially it was unclear to regular users whether or not the site's unavailability was due to regular issues, their Internet providers blocking access, or something more sinister. But according to Swedish news outlets, the site's data center was....
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