Since ThePirateBay.org was raided by the Swedish Police on the 31st of May for alleged aid of copyright infrigment. The servers were taken as evidence material, and is now in police custody for investigation. After just a few days, the Pirate Bay was back online again, but then with servers located in the Netherlands.
To many people’s surprise, ThePirateBay.org now states that they have servers in Sweden again. “The big plan is to spread the site on different locations all over the world, so it will be faster and harder to take down”, writes ThePirateBay.
Prosecutor Håkan Roswell, is skeptical and says that it might be a “propaganda action” from the filesharers, writes Svenska Dagbladet
A leading newspaper covering technology in Sweden, Ny Teknik, interviewed many leading IT persons in Sweden, and 4 of 10 said that they supported filesharing.
Indeed, this increased the heat of the filesharing debate in Sweden, and the battle is long not won by any side.