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Around 11 am on May 31, 2006, approximately 50 members of the Swedish National Criminal Police raided a data centre in among others, which hosted the “The Pirate Bay” servers. There, they confiscated all of their servers claiming they stored illegal content. Three people aged 22, 24 and 28 were arrested in the raid; Apparently, the three administrators of “The Pirate Bay” were released that same afternoon.

Some servers unrelated to The Pirate Bay – but with Piratbyrån and another fellow file-sharing site called Swebits – were also confiscated by the police. There have been complaints from other clients whose servers have also been confiscated, allegedly for no reason.

In protest of the confiscation, 600 people demonstrated in response to the call of the Swedish pro- P2P organizations on the streets of Stockholm and Goteborg. These manifestations were at the time the greatest marches in defence of the P2P.

It is not clear why this raid. However, Swedish television has commented that it could have been due to pressure from the US government. In any case, one of the effects of this operation was to increase the affiliation of the Pirate Party, which stood firmly against it.

After the closure, The Pirate Bay showed a message warning about the legal problems they are suffering and offering information to the community. It confirmed that the police, in possession of court orders, confiscated the servers alleging a crime against the Intellectual Property Law. The website also complained about the confiscation of the non-commercial website and no affiliation with “The Pirate Bay” of Piratbyrån. On June 2, after making a copy of all your hard drives for further investigation, the website became accessible again.

On March 2, the Swedish prosecutor asked for a year in jail for the four owners of the website. Those involved, accused of piracy and copyright infringement, would have made profits equivalent to 8 million dollars.

The case of Gottfrid Svartholm is directly related to The Pirate Bay. Svartholm and his three fellow founders of the famous page were sentenced to one year in prison in 2009 and to the payment of 3.6 million dollars to several companies in the entertainment industry for copyright infringement.

However, on April 23, 2009, it was stated that the trial could have been declared void because it was considered unfair, partial and not independent for The Pirate Bay, given that the judge belongs to several associations and copyright organizations such as the Swedish Association of Copyright (SFU).

In September 2012, Gottfrid Svartholm, 27, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, Swedish police report, will be deported to Sweden where he will face jail sentences.

The green light will be given to the action as soon as the country’s foreign minister approves the measure. The arrest took place after the request of the Swedish authorities to the authorities in Cambodia.

Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at the house he rented in Phnom Penh.

According to Kirth Chanharith, police spokesman: “He will be deported on the basis of our immigration law. The only thing we know right now is that he will be deported to Sweden.”

Gottfrid Svartholm would allege health problems by appealing the verdict, although he would leave Sweden before his resolution. Finally, the Swedish government issued an international arrest warrant for Svartholm in January. Today and after more than six months, the future of one of the founders of The Pirate Bay seems destined to complete the year in prison and the $ 1.1 million fine that falls on him.

On May 17, 2010, a German judge ordered the access provider to cut the service to the file-sharing portal, from then on being inaccessible, because the companies Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Bros began to threaten CB3ROB LTD, and its subsidiary that provides ISP services, CyberBunker, to stop hosting The Pirate Bay or take legal action. The Hamburg regional court has given the first ruling in favour of movie distributors saying that CB3ROB is prohibited from connecting TPB and its servers to the Internet. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, CEO of CB3ROB, decided to close the flow to The Pirate Bay in what his lawyers saw the issue calmly. December The next day the site changed from ISP and became available again, a situation that remains until today.

On December 18, 2013, the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) orders the Peruvian Scientific Network to suspend thepiratebay.pe domain under the warning of imposing a fine of up to 180 UIT (666 thousand soles) if he doesn’t.