The Swedish police seem to be going straight to the source in their battle against copyright infringement. According to Forbes, the country's authorities raided the Stolckholm-based Web host PRQ, which is known for hosting some of the most popular outlaw sites on the Internet, including the Pirate Bay, Wikileaks, the North America Man-Boy Love Association, Pedophile.se, and the Chechen rebel site Kavkaz Central.
It's unclear why police raided PRQ, but its owner Mikael Viborg told the Swedish news outlet Nyheter24 that he believes the investigation had to do with intellectual property violations, according to TorrentFreak. Viborg also said he wasn't sure which sites the authorities were after.
"Yes, they're looking for four servers," Viborg told Nyheter24. "It is the first time since 2010 they have done this."
PRQ was raided twice before, once in 2006 and another time in 2010. Both raids had to do with investigations into allegedly illegal file-sharing. PRQ is known for having a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to hosting sites that are unpopular with the authorities.
"Generally we don't know who our customers are," Viborg told... [Read more]
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