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Law enforcement agencies thought that they had scored a victory against The Pirate Bay after the Stockholm District Court ordered the seizure of both thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se domains for being linked to copyright crimes. This has not stopped the team behind The Pirate Bay, who have registered six other domain names and are planning to rotate for the time being.

Efforts to bring down The Pirate Bay have been ongoing for years, although most of the work has been concentrated in Sweden, which is the original home of the torrent hosting website. Swedish police have arrested and charged all three of the site’s original founders, although that has done nothing to stop the current people responsible for the site from operating.

This hasn’t been the first time that the domain has been seized, and it certainly won’t be the last. The Pirate Bay will now be running from the GS, LA, VG, AM, MN and GD domain names; although it is likely a matter of time before authorities manage to get around to seizing these as well. The new logo for the notorious site includes a five headed Hydra (there was no room for the sixth head) over the traditional pirate ship, borrowing from the mythical monster’s ability to grow multiple new heads whenever one was severed.

The Pirate Bay team appears to be taking the whole incident in their stride, even telling Torrent news site TorrentFreak “Congratulations to Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad. Two years hard work to get us to change two little letters at a cost of $20,000 per letter.”

It looks like The Pirate Bay isn’t going anywhere, and any efforts to bring it down will just result in the site setting up somewhere else on the internet.

[Source: TorrentFreak]