Pirate Bay problems update: Domains taken down in Sweden

The cat-and-mouse game continues for Pirate Bay but now it loses one of its iconic Swedish domains, PirateBay.se and ThePirateBay.se.

PirateBay.se is actually the main domain for the controversial torrent site while the other, ThePirateBay.se was an alternate domain. The domains were originally owned by co-founder Fredrik Neij but are now in the jurisdiction of the Swedish state. Neij is currently serving a one-year sentence at Skannage Prison in Central Sweden after and other Pirate Bay operators were found guilty of copyright infringement back in 2009.

The efforts of seizing the domains are credited to Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad who had originally filed a motion against Punkt SE in 2013. Citing that the domains were criminal tools and apparently misused, placing the blame on the domain registrar who he said was liable for such.

The recent developments is part of the ongoing efforts to curb down piracy and infringing copyrights, a valid argument considering that the domains were indeed somewhat teetering on the area of criminal use and misuse.

This wasn't the first time that Pirate Bay got hit. Back in December, a large part of the site was taken down. Despite that occurrence, the site managed to get back up soon afterward.

This case will not surprisingly be different. Despite the seizure of the domains which are now in the hands of the Swedish state.

With ThePirateBay.se now seized, the url now redirects to thepiratebay.gs when a search is made. At the moment, thepiratebay.gs is down.

However, there are still other domains which are up and about. The list includes thepiratebay.am, thepiratebay.gd, thepiratebay.la, thepiratebay.mn, and thepiratebay.vg.

The Pirate Bay reveals that they still have lot of other domains left and the only good thing that may have happened for the moment is that the main site has been taken down.

After seizure of the Swedish domain, a new logo was unveiled by Pirate Bay. It shows the familiar pirate ship that is surrounded by five new domain names (the ones mentioned above).