The Pirate Bay has gone offline
torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-taken-offline...Posted Aug 24, 2009, 3:52 PM UTC
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“The MAFIAA has spent millions of dollars and endless amounts of time to get this ban in order. Our guess is that they also bribed a bit to get it since it violates so many laws not only in Sweden but also in the EU, not to mention violations against human rights. And what do they have to show for it? 3 hours of partial downtime,”
Perhaps all is not lost.
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it's funny how this isn't going to raise cd sales
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...aaaaaaaand it's back.
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Rather than wait for my dns to update, can someone post tpb's ip address?
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could be it's black holed somewhere between you and them
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that works too. Care to share what that showed?
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I sense a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices cried out in joy…and were suddenly silenced.
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The Pirate Bay is dead, Long Live the Pirate Party.
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There is a gaping hole in the internet.
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That's goatse, surely.
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I walked right into that one, didn't I?
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Eww.
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Nooooooooooooooo!
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Disney, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Sony, NBC and Paramount: Your powers are weak, old man.
TPB: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
conrad23:Nooooooooooooooo!
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Down again?
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I just died a little bit.
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R.I.P., Pirate Bay. Thanks to you, I received over 400 dollars worth of free software (And a virus or two)
Nonetheless, you will be missed.
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Uh, no it hasn't...
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good bye old friend
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I don't understand what people fucking expected to happen. It is one of the main public trackers for every other torrent. And so much pirated shit ended up being sourced at Piratebay, they were going to be shut down. It wasn't even a matter of how, just when. I remember going to their website for the first time and noticing all the cease and desist letters from large companies.
Torrent sites, in view of this, are no better than those old school warez sites that we used to have. Guess it's back to irc fservs/xdcc's / Usenet / Private FTP Dumps.
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I really wish the music industry would innovate rather then prosecute.
Here are some ideas for innovation.
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anakata, founder of TPB, wrote this on flashback (one of Sweden's biggest forums), translated to English:
Notice where it says: "Summa skuldsaldo: 46 461 591 SEK" Translated: "Sum debt saldo: 46 461 591 SEK" (that's about 6.5 million USD). I'm guessing the Swedish IRS will never ever see that money.
EDIT (at 18:49): From #thepiratebay.org: