That's a persistent myth worth clearing up. Swedish cops found Pirate Bay the old-fashioned way: server rooms, ISP records, and political pressure from Washington via the MPAA. No Tor involved. The deeper story is more interesting anyway. Tor was built by the Naval Research Lab so U.S. intelligence could communicate anonymously abroad. They made it public on purpose, anonymity needs a crowd to work. Then Yasha Levine got the FOIA documents: Tor was almost 100% funded by the U.S. government and filed monthly updates to the CIA, NSA, and FBI. Built for state secrecy, became the tool people use to hide from the state. Whether that's irony or by design is a question worth sitting with.