The Swedish Government is the owner of thepiratebay.se | | PirateTimes
The Swedish Government is the owner of thepiratebay.se May 14, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Topic After a court-decision ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se has been forfeited to the Swedish government. This is the first time a domain name has been confiscated in Sweden on this level. There are no previous cases of states suing a registry for abetting criminal activity or breaching copyright law. The Swedish Prosecution Authority had filed a petition (pdf in Swedish) with the Stockholm District Court requesting the seizure of two domain names, thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se from the Registry of Swedish Domains IIS (formerly .SE). The job of IIS is to administrate the top-level domain .se …