industry internet service provider headquarters stockholm sweden key people fredrik neij and gottfrid svartholm products web hosting service website www.prq.se primary asn 33837 peering policy open periquito ab prq is a swedish internet service provider and web hosting company created in 2004 . contents 1 ownership 2 business model 3 criticism 4 legal issues 5 references 6 external links ownership edit based in stockholm prq was created by gottfrid svartholm and fredrik neij two founders of the pirate bay . 1 business model edit part of prq s business model is to host any customers regardless of how odd or controversial they may be . according to the new york times the pirate bay guys have made a sport out of taunting all forms of authority including the swedish police and prq has gone out of its way to be a host to sites that other companies would not touch . 2 the prq service has been described as highly secure no questions asked hosting services . the company is reported to hold almost no information about its clientele and is maintaining few if any of its own logs . 3 fredrik neij and gottfrid svartholm are said to have amassed considerable expertise in withstanding legal attacks . svartholm is quoted to have said we do employ our own legal staff . we are used to this sort of situation in a telephone interview . 3 due to hosting the pirate bay prq was target of a police raid . 4 criticism edit the co founders have been criticized for hosting controversial websites including web pages that promote paedophilia 5 6 7 such as the north american man boy love association nambla a paedophile and pederasty advocacy organization . local authorities and anti paedophilia activists in sweden have failed to persuade prq to close the sites . 8 the pair defended their decision citing freedom of speech . 9 the co owners were also criticized for creating and hosting americasdumbestsoldiers.com a website identifying deceased military personnel that invited visitors to rank how dumb the soldiers were based on the manner in which they died . 10 other criticism originates from the hosting to bittorrent website the pirate bay 11 wikileaks 12 and the french far right blog fdesouche . 13 legal issues edit on 1 october 2012 prq was raided and a number of sites which they provided hosting for were taken offline for alleged copyright infringement . 14 references edit h yhti tapio . net working networking tampere university press p. 344 2008 . gallagher david f. bits ; wikileaks has friend in sweden new york times . 25 february 2008 . a b goodin dan . wikileaks judge gets pirate bay treatment the register 21 february 2008 . slyck news aftermath of the pirate raids . slyck.com . retrieved 26 april 2010 . carp ossi . pedofilsajt tar skydd av lagen dagens nyheter 5 june 2007 libbenga jan. pirate bay founders host paedophilia site the register . 5 june 2007 . thangham chris v. pirate bay founders host paedophilia site calling it free speech digital journal . 6 june 2007 . vinthagen peter . police powerless to close paedophile forums the local 9 april 2010 . moya jared . the pirate bay paedophilia and freedom of speech zeropaid.com 7 june 2007 . tpb afk the pirate bay away from keyboard tpb afk on youtube 8 february 2013 . retrieved 13 february 2013 . ripe crib sheet wikileaks and its spokesman julian assange . fast company . 6 april 2010 . retrieved 26 april 2010 . http www.fdesouche.com 159879 fdesouche chez les pirates torrent sites go offline as police raid alleged copyright infringers . arstechnica . 1 october 2012 . retrieved 1 october 2012 . external links edit official website the swiss bank of web hosts foreign policy on prq retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title prq & oldid 733054982 categories internet service providers of swedenthe pirate bayintellectual property activismweb hostinginformation privacyinternet privacyhidden categories use dmy dates from october 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olfran aisnederlandsportugu ssuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 5 august 2016 at 02 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view