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THE P2P site ThePirateBay is back from the dead, despite claims from various anti-piracy groups that it had been sunk.

The site went back online on Saturday at 6:07PM Eastern Standard Time, and already seems to be a bit busy, probably because it is not running at full capacity again.

It is not clear if any of the smaller businesses that were also using the same ISP are back online. The last email we received from GameSwitch, that outfit was still offline, probably because Inspector Knacker of the Swedish yard had confiscated most of its hardware.

The shut-down is getting considerable press attention in Sweden after one of the research news shows 'Rapport' has indicated that the shut down appeared to have had the involvement of the White House.

The story was corroborated by Svenska Dagbladet which is one of the most cautious and careful of the Swedish dailies.

This led 500 people taking to the streets in a demonstration here.

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Sweden's self confessed daddy of BitTorrent has revealed that if the findings of an ongoing legal fiasco deem The Pirate Bay legal, the site's owners can claim compensation from the Swedish state.

The popular tracker claims to have not been breaking any of Sweden's laws before it was subject to raids on Thursday by the Swedish police force. Hackers retaliated by attacking the Swedish police website with a denial of service (DoS) attack a day later.

The hackers also unleashed their anger on Sony BMG and Warner Music's regional sites, allies to anti-filesharing devotees such as the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

Despite Sweden's anti-filesharing group Antipiratbyran being accused of misleading the police, a Swedish legal expert has deemed the site's threat of compensation as being "silly".

Regardless, it seems it's back to business as usual at The Pirate Bay.

[aiolos]

Just a couple a weeks ago, it appeared like another victory for the movie industry after the Swedish police brought down The Pirate Bay, with 50 police raiding some 200 servers and arresting 3 people. A couple of days later, the three were released and The Pirate Bay made its return back online by travelling to a hosting provider in the Netherlands.

Now their ship has sailed back home to Sweden, returning to their former provider "PRQ" going by their IP information. It also did not take long for the Dutch anti-piracy organisation BREIN to start threatening the hosting provider The Pirate Bay used in the Netherlands, but it looks like it is too late for them as the Site no longer appears hosted there. According to The Pirate Bay, they plan on spreading their site to various locations across the world, not only to improve its speed, but to make it even more difficult to shut down.