Police seized at least 50 Pirate Bay servers and left no hardware unturned.

This time around the raid was very different. The announcements, when they arrived, were considered vague.

Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforcement, read from a statement;

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law,”

Paul Pintér had a modest tone which was a result of 12 years of virtual humiliation at the hands of the world’s most arrogant torrent site. Previous big announcements of raids and permanent closures became pie in the face of officials when the site returns in 72 hours like it did following the previous Pirate Bay raids in 2006.

The recent raid was confirmed to take place in the datacenter located in Nacka outside Stockholm, the datacenter itself is embedded into the side of a mountain just outside the capital. Very few details have been made available since the recent Pirate Bay raid. The only new information was the police left no stone unturned to ensure that The Pirate Bay was properly taken down. A witness to the Pirate Bay raid has confirmed that more than 10 officers showed up to for the raid.

Along with the raiding law enforcement officials was a computer forensics team responsible for securing all available related digital evidence on the Pirate Bay site.

To ensure no piece of evidence was accidentally left behind, on December 9, 2014 the officers present seized around 50 servers under suspicion of even thought to be connected to The Pirate Bay. More than the 21 virtual servers the Pirate Bay site claimed to operate.

In other words the police not only took away servers that had been live at the time of the raid, but they also were able to gain access to the datacenter’s storage rooms where officers seized old equipment, just in case any of it had been used to operate The Pirate Bay.

The prosecutor, Fredrik Ingblad confirmed that the process would like take months to complete as evidence is now being sifted through as part of a criminal investigation against Pirate Bay.

It is uncertain whether The Pirate Bay will ever return. Some hints and suggestions have been appearing on the Pirate Bay’s temporary homepage but as yet not a single torrent or magnet link has been indexed.

To that end the Pirate Bay site is still attracting millions of visitors. According to Alexa, the site is still the 159th most-trafficked in the world.