On Wednesday, the infamous Swedish web host PRQ came back online after it was raided by Swedish authorities earlier this week. In an interview with the Swedish news site Nyheter24, PRQ’s Michael Viborg said Swedish authorities targeted servers that host BitTorrent-related sites.

"They took three servers, and I know two of the sites that were targets of the raid. The first is Tankafetast.com or Tankafett.com, they are different names for the same site" he said (translated from Swedish).

"The other is a site called Appbucket.com," Viborg added. "It has not been on since April when they stopped paying their bills, so no other customer has taken over the server."

Viborg may have actually meant Appbucket.net, whose domain was seized by the United States Department of Justice back in August. (Appbucket.com is actually owned by Photobucket, a photo-sharing site.)

Appbucket.net, meanwhile, offered up various pirated versions of Android apps, and the domain name is owned by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (a co-founder of PRQ and the Pirate Bay). Svartholm Warg was deported from Cambodia back to Sweden just last month.

The Pirate Bay also went down earlier this week at the exact same time as PRQ. TPB had previously used the host, but told TorrentFreak the two simultaneous downtimes were "mere coincidence," although the group "admitted that the site may have used a PRQ relay."

There has been one unexpected beneficiary to the raid—the Swedish Pirate Party. Following the raid, Tankafetast, one of the world’s top BitTorrent sites, redirected its users to the party’s homepage.

"This resulted in a very welcome onslaught of new members," Anna Troberg, the party’s leader, wrote on her blog.

"Last time I checked, we had about a thousand new members and 12,000 new likes on Facebook in a day."