TPB is dead... not

[Malevolence 6]

UPDATED!

 

Riding out the storm

 

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

 

Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

 

Signed;

 

The Pirate Bay Crew - Always when needed.

 

 

Previously...

 

Pirate Bay down after ISP cuts its connection

Its ISP faced a $70,000 fine if file-sharing site was allowed to continue

 

 

IDG News Service - File-sharing site The Pirate Bay went down today after its Internet service provider, Black Internet, cut its connection to avoid being fined by the Stockholm district court.

 

A 500,000 Swedish kronor (US$70,000) fine would be the result if Black Internet did not comply with the decision in the district court.

 

"The decision was made by the district court on Friday, but reached us today and we have decided to comply. ... We are a small operator and we haven't got the financial resources to pursue such a matter," said Victor Möller, CEO at Black Internet, in an interview with Computer Sweden.

 

The Stockholm court's decision goes back to May when a number of movie and record companies filed a motion with the court to fine the people behind the Pirate Bay operation, including Black Internet, as long as The Pirate Bay users can access copyright-protected material.

 

Black Internet isn't the only operator that sells capacity to The Pirate Bay, but it's by far the largest. There is some redundancy with capacity from other operators, but not enough for the site to be up and running.

 

A Swedish court apparently decided it is illegal to be an ISP, said former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde via Twitter today.

 

This isn't the first time copyright holders have been able to block The Pirate Bay by taking action against an ISP. The same tactic worked in Denmark, but failed in Italy. There is also a case pending in in Norway, which will go to court Oct. 17.

 

Meanwhile, Global Gaming Factory X is planning to acquire The Pirate Bay. Its shareholders will decide at a meeting Thursday whether the deal should go through.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/913...on?taxonomyId=1

 

 

Pirate Bay Downtime Boosts PublicBT Tracker

 

Earlier today The Pirate Bay was taken offline by Swedish authorities. As a result many BitTorrent fans were forced to get their BitTorrent fix on other sites and through other trackers, resulting in huge traffic spikes for these alternatives.

 

For most people TPB is just a site where they can download torrents, but in reality it is more than that. The Pirate Bay tracker is responsible for more than half of all BitTorrent traffic, even for torrents that are downloaded off Mininova or isoHunt.

 

This means that, when The Pirate Bay goes down, many torrents will slow down or stop working entirely. That is, if there is no backup tracker listed in the torrent. One widely used backup tracker is PublicBitTorrent, a standalone tracker running on OpenTracker software.

 

As becomes clear from the graph below, the Pirate Bay downtime didn’t go unnoticed for long. As soon as TPB’s tracker went down the number of peers using the PublicBT tracker skyrocketed.

 

One of the admins told FreakBits that they are currently tracking well over 2.5 million peers, a record since the tracker launched last month. And with the upcoming sale of TPB this figure might go up even further in the near future. Let’s hope it holds up.

 

http://freakbits.com/pirate-bay-downtime-b...bt-tracker-0824

 

Is the Pirate Bay takeover sinking?

 

Controversy and the Pirate Bay have always gone together like peanut butter and jam, but now, quicker than you can utter "arrgh me hearties", the controversy seems to have spread to Global Gaming, the company aiming to become the Pirate Bay's new owner.

 

Global Gaming Factory X announced in June that it was to buy the world's most popular torrent tracking service, however questions are now emerging amidst rumours surrounding its ability to consummate the transaction.

 

Global Gaming Factory X had planned to buy The Pirate Bay for US$8 million and legitimise it, however last week, trading of Global Gaming's shares was halted on the Swedish market, as investigations kicked into gear around rumours of debt and Global Gaming's ability to purchase The Pirate Bay.

 

Whilst Global Gaming Factory X denies that there any impediments to the purchase of the site, the amount of uncertainty hanging over the acquisition is growing as rumours surface that Swedish authorities are also investigating insider trading of Global Gaming shares.

 

Several statements made by Global Gaming Factory CEO Hans Pandeya to IT media outlets including CNET ranged from outright denial of any problems, through to allegations of a conspiracy to enable a competing bidder to buy The Pirate Bay.

 

The commotion surrounding Global Gaming appears to be nothing new, with the former president of peer to peer player, Grokster, dumping Global Gaming (who were originally hired to set up licensing deals with content owners), citing questions about Global Gaming's financing and Pandeya's character. Further compounding doubts, Pandeya has so far refused to provide any substantial details on who his financial backers are.

 

Local media in Sweden are also covering rumours of Global Gaming debts, stating that Pandeya is also said to owe Peerialism (the company that was supposed to provide the technology underpinning the new Pirate Bay) up to US$900,0000 for work done two months ago.

 

According to Swedish media, Pandeya also allegedly owes the Swedish government over US$100,000 in taxes.

 

The negative rumours and growing levels of doubt could not come at a worse time for Global Gaming Factory X, who need to swiftly conclude the Pirate Bay deal in order to quell doubts and halt the exodus away from the service.

 

Since the news of the purchase of the Pirate Bay was announced, Pirate Bay fans have been steadily migrating to alternative torrent tracker services whilst other users have been developing alternative backups to the Pirate Bay's torrent tracker database.

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/...jectid=10593024

 

 

TPB is gone. You can never access the site and the torrents are kinda messed up right now.

Edited August 26, 2009 by Malevolence

[BioBen 3]

lol again?

 

They'll appear again with a czech IP soon

[Malevolence 6]

lol again?

 

They'll appear again with a czech IP soon

 

What do you mean again?

 

All these while TPB has been active despite all the court suing stuffs been going on. It is officially dead yesterday.

[Luk3us 63]

I've since moved on.

[CCHyper 3]

Have i missed something? I just got onto the website and i can still grab torrents fine, and they are updating to the tracker fine too...

[Malevolence 6]

Have i missed something? I just got onto the website and i can still grab torrents fine, and they are updating to the tracker fine too...

 

Oh!

 

I guess the effort for killing piracy is pretty wasted. Sneaky pirates, they are always back with surprises.

[CCHyper 3]

Check this... http://thepiratebay.org/blog

[Doctor Destiny 41]

I just got on it too. I even downloaded torrents fine off them last night.

[Sonic 296]

Check this... http://thepiratebay.org/blog

Nice. I click that link and Avast killed it..... bottom right in the screen shot below.

 

 

and....

 

[Luk3us 63]

Your avast must be more updated than mine, as I can visit PB without any issues.

 

I thought this was cute:

 

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

 

Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

[BioBen 3]

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-ret...blazing-090825/

 

@Mal

Told you so

[Saracen 16]

Nice. I click that link and Avast killed it..... bottom right in the screen shot below.

 

For normal sensitivity, that sure is strange. Not even a blip on the radar with my Avast.

 

Anway TPB or in fact any other site is not a concern any more. I admit, in the last 12 months previous to March, I had been downloading many many torrents which were undoubtedly not of a legal nature. However, since my ISP (Along with a couple of others in my country) have stated that they're at the forefront of the Anti-piracy movement.... I sat back and thought about it, and realised I end up buying everything that I download anyway. So what's the point in risking getting caught and cut off the internet when the IP holders still get my cash anyway?

 

After all. There's not exactly a plethora of music or indeed games worth grabbing any more, apart from maybe 2 or 3 titles, the next 12 months is pure pants for the PC format. So I have money flowing out of my ears because the games industry can't put together many decent titles of late. As for movies? Well, for the price of 2 Movie store rentals I get to see however many movies and console game I can cram in within a month. There's more than enough online movie rental companies falling over each other to provide the best deals. So for a bit of cash, I can still try before I buy anyway.

 

So as far as torrent sites go, they can die for all I care. They are after all, half the reason why games prices are high, and DRM is slapped on every god damn PC title these days. In turn that only serves to potentially infringe upon the license we purchase to play/listen/watch media from the entertainment industry. Sure piracy will never die, and neither will the black market. But the tougher it can be made, the less I get to hear about the whole DRM issue. Sure I love a bit of free software and music, but I now prefer it in the legitimate form such as OpenOffice.org or some talented unsigned band trying to make a name for themselves.

 

 

[Malevolence 6]

I've updated the thread slightly. Yea, TPB is still active. Lol.

[CCHyper 3]

Strange Sonic...

 

I didnt intended to do anything to your or other system, just they have a blog up talking about how they are back up and running...

[Sonic 296]

Whatever it was, no harm was done.

[TheBlackOut 7]

So as far as torrent sites go, they can die for all I care. They are after all, half the reason why games prices are high, and DRM is slapped on every god damn PC title these days. In turn that only serves to potentially infringe upon the license we purchase to play/listen/watch media from the entertainment industry. Sure piracy will never die, and neither will the black market. But the tougher it can be made, the less I get to hear about the whole DRM issue. Sure I love a bit of free software and music, but I now prefer it in the legitimate form such as OpenOffice.org or some talented unsigned band trying to make a name for themselves.

I don't believe for a minute that's why game prices are high. Not even a bit.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Prices are higher because developers make more money. That's why. Being a game developer is not ****ing easy.

[TheBlackOut 7]

That and development teams are much, much larger than they were in the past. Product making takes longer, the software is more complex, etc etc...

[F15pilotX 4]

I don't even download torrents, but honestly, I want them to survive if only for the entertainment their legal page provides whenever they update it

Edited September 10, 2009 by F15pilotX

[Malevolence 6]

TPB is down again since yesterday 5th Oct 2009

 

Hollywood hunts The Pirate Bay; site down again

 

Update: 11:05 p.m. Monday: To note that the site was down most of Monday.

 

The Pirate Bay was inaccessible most of the day Monday after a group representing copyright owners forced the BitTorrent search engine's bandwidth provider to cut off service, according to a published report.

 

NForce, the Pirate Bay's latest Internet service provider, complied with a request to shut off service to The Pirate Bay made by Netherlands-based antipiracy group Brein, according to online news site Tweakers.net.

 

Monday's outage followed a three-hour blackout of The Pirate Bay on Friday. The blackouts are the result of work performed by attorneys based in Sweden who are employed by the big movie studios, according to my film industry sources. The lawyers are hunting down whoever provides bandwidth to The Pirate Bay and then using the threat of lawsuits to pressure the ISPs to stop.

 

Black Internet, the Pirate Bay's onetime ISP, was threatened with fines in Sweden unless it cut off service. The Pirate Bay then moved to an a Ukrainian ISP, which also received threats, according to the blog TorrentFreak. NForce was next and now that company has had to comply.

 

Just where The Pirate Bay will go next or how long the site will be down isn't clear. The founders of the site have vowed to continue operating the site no matter what.

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10367767-93.html

[Luk3us 63]

I'd of thought peopel would have given up on Piratebay by now and moved on. I mean, there are so many alternatives. Poor Hollywood and all their lawyers, you cut of the head of the serpent and a dozen more heads pop up and take its place.

[Malevolence 6]

It's a never ending story. Nevertheless its interesting to see how the progress of this madness goes.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

This is rich. These morons will attack TPB and leave the rest alone until three more grow larger than TPB ever was. ****ing morons.

[BioBen 3]

Still down here but: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-rel...-bunker-091006/