It just keeps on keepin' on . . .

THE PIRATE BAY proclaims itself to be "The world's most resilient BitTorrent site" — and that may well be true. You see, according to TorrentFreak, a BitTorrent news and commentary site, police all over Europe have been raiding addresses and seizing computers to stamp out this pestiferous org.

This morning news is coming in which indicates that very significant raids against illicit file-sharing are taking place in locations across Europe. Police in up to 14 European countries are said to be involved in an operation, said to be in the planning for two years, targeting the Warez Scene, the network of individuals and servers at the top of the so-called ‘Piracy Pyramid’.

Details are scarce at the moment, but it is believed that at the behest of Belgian authorities, raids have gone ahead in The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Hungary and Sweden.

Not unusually, Sweden appears to have borne the brunt of the activity with a total of seven locations raided including Stockholm, Malmö, Umeå, Eskilstuna and Solna. Armed with IP addresses, this morning police officers turned up at the Solna premises of PRQ, the company that in part hosts WikiLeaks.There is no suggestion that the controversial whistle-blowing site is connected to the operation.

However, it appears that TPB is indeed resilient. Dropped in — it's alive! In a world of cable and satellite rip-offs, outrageous DVD and movie ticket prices, ya gotta love them distributed servers — BitTorrent rules!