PRQ Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites

**anon** · 02.10.12, 01:53

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.

**techsupport** · 02.10.12, 03:42

BTN, BitHQ and Filelist.ro are using PRQ, for those who wonder what happened to them.

**Instab** · 02.10.12, 08:12

wasn't that hoster raided before? why would anybody host in sweden anyway given the developments there

**Jordan** · 02.10.12, 08:35

Bad News. Maybe trackers like GFT, REVTT, ST, Bithumen etc are down because of this.

**Jordan** · 03.10.12, 08:36

Most of the sites are up again. Torrent Damage is reporting data loss.

**roberto1972** · 03.10.12, 08:43

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.

**C3PO** · 03.10.12, 10:12

Fl.ro are also still down.

**DEViL.eXE** · 03.10.12, 11:03

GFT are back.

**anon** · 03.10.12, 15:38

Originally Posted by roberto1972

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.