Colocation Provider PRQ Raided; Wikileaks and Many Torrent Sites Offline 138
An anonymous reader writes with some chilling news about PRQ, the infamous colo founded by two Pirate Bay founders. From the article: "Stockholm police raided the free-speech focused firm (PRQ) Monday and took four of its servers, the company's owner Mikael Viborg told the Swedish news outlet Nyheter24. While a number of bittorrent-based filesharing sites including PRQ's most notorious client, the Pirate Bay, have been down for most of Monday as well as PRQ's own website, Viborg told the Swedish news site that the site outages were the result of a technical issue, rather than the police's seizure of servers."
Torrentfreak is reporting that the Pirate Bay isn't using PRQ for anything important (if at all), and that their downtime is due to a faulty PDU that happened to fail as a coincidence.
Re:same country that wants Assange just raided.... (Score:4, Interesting)
Same Country that wants assange on funny smelling charges of "rape", just raided his server room.
Sorry but that is untrue.
PRQ hosted wikileaks back in 2010.
What did get removed was a number of torrentsites.