How was The Pirate Bay able to get back online after being shut down?
<p>The Pirate Bay in the past year had its servers raided by Swedish Police and the site was shut down. On what grounds were Swedish police able to raid TPB servers and shut down the site, under Swedish Law? And how was TPB, under Swedish law, able to reclaim its servers and control of thepiratebay.se domain name?</p>

<p>If you take a look at the Wikipedia page <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay</a> you can read that</p>

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  <p>In some countries, Internet service providers have been ordered to
  block access to the website. <strong>Subsequently, proxies have been providing
  access to it, and its content is being provided by multiple
  round-robin servers, collectively nicknamed the "TPB hydra."</strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p>That page has about all the info you need about how they operate, their legal situation (in particular the May 2006 raid) and more. The Wikipedia page is continuously updated: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&amp;action=history" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&amp;action=history</a></p>

<p>Also, read TPB's own usage policy and disclaimer: <a href="https://thepiratebay.se/policy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thepiratebay.se/policy</a>  which includes the line:</p>

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  <p>The responsibility lies upon the user to not spread malicious, false
  or illegal material using the site.</p>
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<p><strong>Update 8/16/2017</strong>: The Pirate Bay is back at the URL <code>thepiratebay.org</code> while the domain <code>thepiratebay.se</code> is now forwarded to it.</p>

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