Online magnet link host The Pirate Bay announced today their awareness of a new investigation by Swedish authorities into the site’s file-sharing activities.

TorrentFreak reports that the Pirate Bay team expects both their servers and the new thepiratebay.se domain name to be targeted by authorities soon. TPB moved their site the the .se domain name upon concerns that their .org address would be the target of legal action in the United States.

According to The Pirate Bay’s blog, the current investigation was initiated by Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad in 2010. The website’s team members report receiving multiple and more-or-less regular information leaks about the investigation. “Since our recent move to a .SE domain the investigation has been cranked up a notch,” reports the TPB team.

Officials in Sweden are sympathetic to the cause, claims today’s blog post. “The reason that we get the leaks,” the post continues, “is usually that the whistleblowers does not agree with what is going on. Something that the governments should have in mind – even your own people does not agree.”

Today’s blog post is a bold statement in defiance of the new investigation. It sends the message that The Pirate Bay is aware of authorities’ activities, that it is unphased by any mounting pressure, and that by the very nature of the site–its nebulous structure, and, especially, its recent switch to the magnet links format,–authorities will never be able to shut down The Pirate Bay for good. The anticipated raid will result in the seizure of only a handful of the site’s scattered public servers, which are adorned with easter eggs for authorities to find. Other servers will remain intact and undetected throughout the world, and new ones will spring up as needed. The Pirate Bay is here to stay.

“We’re staying put where we are. We’re going no-where. But we have a message to hollywood, the investigators and the prosecutors: LOL.”

And, since it’s Friday, here’s an xkcd strip for you. It’s an older code, but it checks out.

Courtesy xkcd.com