The Pirate Bay torrent site raided - Hoax

well, according to a computermagazine here in sweden, the lawyer in The swedish anti-piracy agancy, Henrik Ponten, denies that they are involved in this. The guesses on different forums are that it might be a joke or that the sight is hacked. We can just wait and see.

I read on slyck that it is a joke and they are upgrading their servers. Only time will tell!?!?

Yes apparently it was a hoax ;-)

lol

all i gotta say is "be careful what you wish for"

says new update available soon, you just never know boing boing baggies baggies

Yup, sites closing down everywhere, servers raided, people arrested or quizzed by FBI etc....hahaha real funny guys....your best joke yet.

Is funny how some of the places claim to have been shut down are still working for me. Thanks for the new torrent site to check out when it comes back to life. And do you realy belive anyone was arested a few years ago for downloading MP3? All lies intendted to scare people away from doing it. -Del

Is it just me or was the joke not funny?..........kinda odd actually....

Sure...really sick joke...i almost cried when i saw the page lol :D ... now i can't stop insulting that mad admin and laughin my ass off lol... and btw...one big phheeewww hehe

This is what thier page said yesterday which I translated into engish from swedish. "Now maybe yous am wondering whys we did it so here? We would only make yourself aware on that The Pirate Bay soon am arriving in an fresh version." It basically said they were doing site maintainance and updated the site. I never saw anything about it being raided, I wonder where that came from ><

its said earlier yesterday morning that it had been raided then changed later in the day,, thats were it came from boing boing baggies baggies

Hey.. April's Fool was ages ago.

"Now maybe yous am wondering whys we did it so here? We would only make yourself aware on that The Pirate Bay soon am arriving in an fresh version." hmm. i can't tell if this is more pirate or swedish?

On behalf on swedish pirates and TPB I have to say we thought the joke was kinda funny. Maybe its out bad sense of humour(?).. Anyway, v2 is up and running and lots will change and have changed. The GUI has been made easyer etc., faster laoding etc. and we are currently working on more changes. So go google for torrents now! :-) "Everything for free, why is that bad?"

Acutally, I don't think it'll be much longer before there is a non-hoax raid on the Pirate Bay. I recall reading that the Norwegians are trying to shut down their BitTorret sites, and Sweden will probably do the same thing. The Pirate Bay has much too high a profile and much too cocky an attitude to escape attention.