Declining health forced Roy Bates to move to mainland Essex, and after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years, he died on October 2012 at the age of 91. Between 2007 and 2010, Sealand was offered for sale at an asking price of $906 million, but found no buyer, although it was reported that the notorious BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, tried to buy Sealand with the intension of setting up servers so that they could operate in a region which is outside the jurisdiction of any country.