Following threats of increased legal action from a local anti-piracy group, Sweden’s Pirate Party will no longer host the
The Pirate Bay, a website it has provided bandwidth to for the last three years. Responsibilities of hosting the file-sharing site have now been handed to pirate parties in Norway and Spain,
according to TorrentFreak. Local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance had warned the party and other Swedish companies that if they continued to work with The Pirate Bay beyond February 26th it would take legal action. The group is backed by world’s largest movie and music companies, and litigation with them would have been a huge burden for the Swedish Pirate Party.
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