December last year The Pirate Bay went dark after police raided the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof datacenter built into a mountain complex. Around the same time one of Pirate Bay's moderators was arrested, fueling the idea that the site had been seriously compromised. The events resulted in the longest ever period of downtime for the site, nearly two months, and led to a revolt among the site's moderators. While it was generally believed that Pirate Bay needed time to recover the site from various backups, The TPB team now says that this was not the case.
In fact, Pirate Bay's servers were never raided by the police. The police did raid the Nacka datacenter but instead of Pirate Bay's servers they raided those of EZTV. Sladinki007 of the former EZTV team confirmed that their hardware was indeed taken, but the Pirate Bay team says they were barely hit.