Police raided Swedish hosting company PRQ, and as a result many file sharing and streaming sites have been affected. The Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij founded PRQ.
Although The Pirate Bay was also down recently, this was an unrelated incident, reports TorrentFreak. The Pirate Bay says a power outage caused the problem, and not the PRQ raid.
PRQ owner Mikael Viborg says that police targeted specific hardware, but he is not sure which sites or services they were after. He also notes that “he believes the investigation is related to intellectual property violations,” explains the post.
“Torrenthound.com, linkomanija.net and tankafetast.nu, release blog RLSLOG.net, and the sports streaming sites atdhenet.tv, hahasport.com, sportlemon.tv and stopstream.tv” were all down after the raid. The raid also affected private sites that use PRQ as a host.
Although the PRQ website has returned online, many file-sharing sites remain offline.
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