Domain Registrar Confirms New Pirate Bay Investigation

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Suspicions that the police have started a new criminal investigation
into The Pirate Bay were confirmed by the Swedish hosting company Binero
today. Police have requested the company to reveal the personal details
of the customer who registered The Pirate Bay domain name. Sources say
that the new investigation is a renewed attempt to shut the popular
BitTorrent site down.

Last week the news leaked that Swedish prosecutors have started a new criminal investigation into The Pirate Bay.

The assumed goal of the new effort is to shut the site down, something the authorities failed to accomplish during the first investigation more than half a decade ago.

Initially, the only source for the new investigation was The Pirate
Bay team itself. Today the plans were confirmed by the Swedish hosting
company Binero where two of The Pirate Bay’s .se domain names are registered.

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