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    PRQ Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites

    Police have raided the Swedish hosting company PRQ today, possibly looking for servers connected to copyright infringement. PRQ was founded by Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij and is known to host or route many file-sharing sites. The target of the raid has not been confirmed by the authorities, but The Pirate Bay team informs TorrentFreak that they are no longer using PRQ’s services.

    A raid against Swedish hosting company PRQ has been confirmed today. Due to the action by police many file-sharing and streaming sites are now down or inaccessible.

    All sites hosted on the 80.88./19 net are currently unavailable, (...)

    Private BitTorrent sites that use PRQ’s services are also affected. They include GFTracker and Bithumen, to name just two.
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    PRQ Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites | TorrentFreak

    Bad news all around.
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    BTN, BitHQ and Filelist.ro are using PRQ, for those who wonder what happened to them.
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    wasn't that hoster raided before? why would anybody host in sweden anyway given the developments there
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    PRQ Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites

    Bad News. Maybe trackers like GFT, REVTT, ST, Bithumen etc are down because of this.
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    Most of the sites are up again. Torrent Damage is reporting data loss.
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    ThePirateBay is down, do You think that because of this?
    It's almost sure but I heard that They use a lot of hosting servers and have a lot of backups.
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    Fl.ro are also still down.
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    GFT are back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by roberto1972 View Post
    ThePirateBay is down, do You think that because of this?
    It's almost sure but I heard that They use a lot of hosting servers and have a lot of backups.
    They weren't in PRQ to my knowledge. Anyway, the site works for me.
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    GFT and BTN were not on PRQ. Only BTN's tracker was on there i think.
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    I heard gft, filelist were on prq.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DEViL.eXE View Post
    I heard gft, filelist were on prq.
    You heard wrong.
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    They were down at the same time. So what happend?
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