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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Faced with a new ruling from a Swedish court [torrentfreak.com] that saw its Swedish ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se domains confiscated, torrent site The Pirate Bay is moving back to where it first started in 2003, ThePirateBay.org.

The site is currently redirecting all traffic from the above two domains back to its .org home. The Pirate Bay had originally moved to .se in 2012, before making moves to more obscure domains, such as .sx and .ac. It would eventually return to .se in 2015. The alternative domains the site was using have all been seized.

While the moves were meant as a way to avoid copyright lawsuit-related closures, the return back to .org could see potential legal action from the US, as the registry that manages the top level .org domains is based in Virginia.

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