The Pirate Bay taken down by authorities....
I figured it was just a matter of time...:pinch:
From TorrentFreak:
Following the earlier court defeat for Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter and the pending civil action taken by several Hollywood studios, the Swedish authorities have now ordered The Pirate Bay to be disconnected from the Internet. The site’s bandwidth suppliers have been threatened with a large fine. The site is completely offline.
The rest of the story...
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-b...rities-090824/
Edit: Seems they've found another host!
"Update: As expected, The Pirate Bay site relocated and is back online (DNS still has to update for some people). A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak that they “got a new connection to the net.” The tracker is still down and is expected to be fully operational tomorrow morning, we were told. Ever since their servers were raided back in 2006 they were prepared for takedown attempts like this."
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Long live the Pirate Bay!
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Here's another good read about the financial happenings re: TPB
From Arstechnica:
Swedish court rules TPB admins too broke to pay damages.
The Swedish government can't find any assets with which to make The Pirate Bay defendants pay up, and its attempt to shut down TPB's ISP lasted only a matter of hours. Meanwhile, the sale of the site appears to be in jeopardy.
Rest of the story:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...ay-damages.ars
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I think it may be down again, as I have not been able to access the site today.
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From TorrentFreak:
Another Update: The temporary host has a problem with its fiber causing the site to go offline again. Meanwhile, the downtime is causing traffic spikes for other torrent sites and trackers.
I think this is most likely just the beginning of the cat and mouse game to come between TPB and the authorities. As mentioned, they have been prepared for take downs since the first raid and have more than a few tricks up their sleeve.
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Nice fight they're putting up!
But hasn't TPB been bought out? What authority do the original owners still have left?
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I thought the site was already shut down. Would not visit it if i knew it was up.
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yeah, I'm kind of afraid to download from there now...