Yesterday brought news of a massive file-sharing raid across Europe that saw many top-level sites taken offline. This happens every now and again in the file-sharing ecosystem. While the scope of the raid was impressive, the real issue boiled down to: why is The Pirate Bay offline?

The raids don't appear to be related to The Pirate Bay's downtime. Although one of the raids took place in Sweden at the PRQ data center (which used to host The Pirate Bay), we believe the BitTorrent search engine left its native web host a long time ago. Back in May of 2010, The Pirate Party agreed to host The Pirate Bay - however they were not a focus of the raids.

Unfortunately, little information on the matter exists - except chatter in The Pirate Bay's IRC channel. No word on the downtime was on their Twitter or Facebook page.

The word on IRC was that it was a technical issue (a damaged CPU) - and perhaps some intoxication on the part of the administrators. In any case, as we were preparing this article, The Pirate Bay is once again online and appears very responsive.

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