It seems that The Pirate Bay offices were raided today. They have issued a short statement here. According to the online chatter (with some sources close to the Pirate Bay) 50 police were involved in the raid.
The Pirate Bay is the largest bittorrent tracker online and has therefore long been the center of much legal discussion and controversy.
The motivation for the raid was that The Pirate Bay was “facilitating copyright infringement”. The point of whether the actions of The Pirate Bay constitute a criminal act are under discussion. But a small point which interests me is the fact(?) that the police apparently took servers belonging and/or containing/hosting other organisations.
Even if The Pirate Bay have been facilitating copyright infringement it is interesting to see how far the actions of authoritites may go. In efforts to prevent a percieved crime and to secure evidence of this the authorities have now prevented the communications of other organisations not conducting criminal actions.