The administrators of The Pirate Bay had previously boasted that their servers were mirrored on cloud hosts all over the world, and that they could be back up and running very quickly after a raid, but the site's been down for a day and more now.
The raid may have been precipitated by the posting of some of the pre-release movies leaked from Sony in the spectacular hack-attack earlier this month.
Then days ago Google removed and banned a number of third-party Pirate Bay file-sharing apps from the Google Play store. The apps help users circumvent blocks instated by ISPs to prevent users from accessing Pirate Bay.
Today's raid comes after some of the movie files stolen from Sony Pictures Entertainment in its recent hack became available for download through links at Pirate Bay. It's unknown if the raid and takedown were instigated by the distribution of those Sony files.
Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here's What We Know [Kim Zetter/Wired]
