So long Pirate Bay, you have been my loyal and trusted pirate friend.
All the illegal downloads you have given me, from DVD rips of blockbuster movies to the latest series.
Alas all things must come to an end.
Swedish police seized the computer servers hosting file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, taking the website offline, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said on Wednesday.
Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay allows users to dodge copyright fees and share music, film and other files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.
Swedish courts have already handed down prison sentences and heavy fines to its founders Carl Lundstroem, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde.
“We had a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm because of a copyright infringement, and yes it was Pirate Bay,” Paul Pinter, national coordinator, intellectual property crime at Stockholm County Police told Reuters.
It was unsure if Pirate Bay was taken down for hosting some of the movies leaked due to the recent cyber attack on Sony Corp’s Sony Pictures Entertainment, tech website Wired reported.
