The Piratebay was raided by the Swedish police yesterday. Today we read that the site will be back within two days, what reminds me of the trick they pulled off last year.

In May 2005 all major media outlets reported that The Piratebay was taken down by Swedish anti-piracy organisations. However, that was a hoax, and a pretty clever marketing strategy to announce their redesign.

And today, the Piratebay.org site states:

SITE DOWN – WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO

This is exactly 1 year after the succesful hoax

A HOAX? Probably not, but the new servers will not be located in Sweden, a Piratebay admin stated:

We are currently working hard on a solution and I would be very disappointed in us if we couldn’t get TPB up and running again within a week. It is very possible that we move into other countries, possibly Holland, with Russia as a Backup. There are some problems with decentralization, but a solution which would keep TPB up even if one location is taken down would be good.

However, he also said:

We still haven’t had the chance to see the warrant, so we don’t exactly know what they were looking for. No lawyer is assigned yet….

The rumor is that the warrant was issued against the provider (PRQ), however there is NO list yet (update: there is) of other affected sites (apart from PiratbyrÃ¥n).

Let’s wait and see