The Pirate Bay claimed on Monday that Swedish police never laid hands on the servers behind the filesharing site in a raid last December, despite the fact the website went down for two months.<\/p>\n

The raid on Nacka datacentre near Stockholm in Sweden mostly hit EZTV, a website dedicated to television show torrents, according to former EZTV staff member Sladinki007, who confirmed that site’s hardware had been taken by the cops.<\/p>\n

Whilst a server from the Pirate Bay was taken by police in December, this had actually been hosted at a different location, and was used to run a communication channel for the website’s admins, according to a Pirate Bay staffer that spoke to TorrentFreak, a filesharing blog.<\/p>\n

Following the raid a Pirate Bay moderator was arrested by the police, prompting the website to stop operations as a precaution, which gave the impression the site had been hit in the raid.<\/p>\n

According to the source the team was not sure if it was the main target of the raid, with the servers behind the main website actually being located outside of Sweden.<\/p>\n

However they did not completely dismiss the chance the police had been following an erroneous lead.<\/p>\n

The Pirate Bay eventually reappeared in February of this year with all of its data intact, a relaunch having been delayed so the site’s admins could move and adjust to a new \u201ccloud\u201d environment, which lets admins interface with the hosting system remotely.<\/p>\n

Since that time the website had apparently kept various moderators and observers ignorant of the facts behind the raid so they could investigate any potential compromising of their systems and team.<\/p>\n

Further details can be found on TorrentFreak<\/a>, where this story was originally reported.<\/p>\n

Image Credit \u2013 Pirate Ship and the Setting Sun, August 2009 by Paul Hamilton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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