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    • Nov 2001
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    The Pirate Bay Taken Down After Swedish Police Raid

    A Swedish police raid of a nuclear bunker style data center located in Nacka has taken down The Pirate Bay, and several other torrent related sites as collateral damage.

    At the time of publishing, The Pirate Bay remains down in one of the longest downtimes the site has experienced. Other sites related to The Pirate Bay, including Suprbay and Pastebay, are also down, as are unrelated sites including EZTV, Zoink and Torrage.

    And despite media reports suggesting that The Pirate Bay has moved to a Costa Rica based domain name (which is merely a proxy site that has been operating for months prior to this raid), no official word yet on when The Pirate Bay will be making a comeback.

    Other sites, which used servers also hosted at the same Nacka facility, have started to come back online, including TV show torrent site EZTV.

    According to information obtained by torrent news site TorrentFreak, while the Pirate Bay has mostly moved to a cloud and virtual based infrastructure, which is supposed to be immune to these kinds of take-downs, the raid may have taken down the load balancing server located at the Nacka facility, the last remaining physical "bottleneck" for The Pirate Bay.

    What this also means is that the actual websites and servers that contain the Pirate Bay data is still online, somewhere, but users cannot connect to these servers because the load balancer, which switches between these servers to spread out usage, is down. In all likelihood, police will not have gotten access to user data or the site's files, and once the load balancer is replaced, the site will be back to normal operations fairly quickly.

    But for now, the world's largest piracy site remains down. Down, but not out. Not yet.
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