Torrent sharing website The Pirate Bay has been forced offline after Swedish authorities raided its Stockholm base on Tuesday.

Swedish police targeted servers, computers and other equipment servicing the website at thepiratebay.se, which redirects from thepiratebay.org.

The Pirate Bay has parked itself at thepiratebay.cr after thepiratebay.se was shut down.

"We had a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm because of a copyright infringement, and yes it was Pirate Bay," Paul Pinter, national coordinator, intellectual property crime at Stockholm County Police told Reuters.

Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad told Radio Sweden the operation, which lasted from morning until afternoon, involved "