A Swedish court confiscated The Pirate Bay’s key net domain names on Tuesday, stripping the torrent-indexing website of its own well-known domain name, ThePirateBay.se.

Meanwhile, as it absolutely was on Tuesday The Pirate Bay website itself ought to be considered a tool used to perpetrate a crime and may be confiscated.

“Fredrik Neij has participated in the offenses which were identified and he’s the real holder of the domain names,” the opinion said. “It’s thus no impediment to confiscate domain names from him. The prosecutor’s main claim with respect to Fredrik Neij ought to be carried on and domain names ought to be confiscated from him in compliance together with the Copyright Act.”

The Pirate Bay has been proven tumultuous for by the last couple of years. The website itself has rebound from one domain name to the next based in changing locales, including the Caribbean as well as Iceland. In addition, it went offline for almost two months following a police raid on the servers in Sweden of the site’s. Meanwhile, the four creators of the website sentenced to a year in jail in 2009 and were charged with copyright infringement.