The Pirate Bay is leaving Sweden, because pressure from a local anti-piracy group representing the entertainment industry is getting too much for it. Instead, the 'Bay will be hosted across Norway and Spain, reports Torrent Freak.


While The Pirate Bay moved to the cloud in October 2012, it continued to use web hosting services provided by the Swedish Pirate Party. But earlier this month the Pirate Party was threatened with a lawsuit from Sweden's Rights Alliance if it didn't sever ties with The Pirate Bay by February 26th.

That day is here, and so The Pirate Bay has done the only thing it could, shifting its hosting services to pirate parties in Norway and Spain. The Pirate Bay's Winona told TorrentFreak:

"TPB did of course have lots of backup transit lined up for ages. This is however the first time we are going to show two at the same time. It will be interesting to see who is now blamed for hosting TPB. In the end, maybe the anti-interneterians will understand that they can't win a fight when they have the people against them."


Norway and Spain have both shied away from taking legal action against file-sharing sites in the past. It'll be interesting to see if that remains the case. [Torrent Freak via Ars Technica]