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The Pirate Bay Celebrates 2nd Anniversary of Server Raid

By soulxtc

Notes that it was back up and running a mere 3 days later, and that despite no court date still having been set it has yet to see the return of its confiscated servers. It was 2 years ago yesterday that the famed Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay was raided at the apparent behest of the MPAA, IFPI, and the American embassy. Authorities seized not only The Pirate Bay's servers, but also those of 10 unrelated companies who had the apparent misfortune of simply sharing the same hosting services of PRQ. The Pirate Bay decided to mark the event in a blog posting on their site that emphasizes that after all the threats, raids, and outright harassment by the entertainment industry it is still around and arguable stronger and more popular than ever before. It reads: Today we celebrate! Two years ago on this day, the 31st of May, the Swedish police raided our facilities.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).