Sweden police take down ThePirateBay

[the_randomizer]

Kinda hard to do that when a lot of countries has ties to a lot of people.

True, there's always Somalia, no real government infrastructure or laws there

 

[TeamScriptKiddies]

There were DMCA-ish laws used against them before and they got stiff penalties (jail and monetary). They basically said that the site was aiding/facilitating pirating and making money off infringement via the banners. TPB claims the amount they received from the banners was a small fraction of what was stated by the prosecutor and it went to the server and IT costs.

I think everyone on this site should watch the documentary on it.

those were arbitrary laws that were made up in the moment... I was talking about actual laws on paper. That was likely another pay off *sigh*

 

[Hells Malice]

Dammit Sweden this is why nobody likes you.

True, there's always Somalia, no real government infrastructure or laws there

The problem with hosting in shitty countries is that your website works like dogshit. It'd take several minutes to load any page.

 

[DarkFlare69]

Dammit, the best porn advertisements come from this website! Where am I gonna get find and fuck sites now?

 

[Deleted member 357656]

Dammit, the best porn advertisements come from this website! Where am I gonna get find and fuck sites now?

Lol, a bit serious, no?
Anyway, I feel sad for those who are concerned...

 

[DarkFlare69]

Lol, a bit serious, no?
Anyway, I feel sad for those who are concerned...

No, I'm [size=0.000001]not[/size] being completely serious.

 

[Gahars]

It looks like there's already ways to circumvent this. I'm not going to link to them or anything, I think that might be a rules violation iirc, but if you really need your fix, I'm sure any large thread on the subject (like Reddit's r/technology or r/torrents) will have all the info you need.

But hey, they got a good few hours, I'll give them that.

 

[luney]

Thanks for linking that cracker. Great watch!

 

[Ashtonx]

Not that it'll affect piracy, well it'll affect people who don't really know anything aside from tpb, but then again, kill tpb another one will grow.

 

[Searinox]

Again? They're seriously gonna try this again? When will they ever learn...

 

[RCJayce]

Piratebrowser is working fine, besides that. There is always a cache version of TPB. So no big deal at least for me.

 

[The Catboy]

Didn't this happen already once before?

 

[Bladexdsl]

So you go usenet, or you go the crazy mans way of paying money? :o

usenet is shit now that nzbmatrix threw in the towel. it's easy to get brand new stuff but after a few weeks nearly becomes impossible to find it again without getting missing data blocks or getting fucking missing part errors after you have downloaded it while trying to extract. good luck downloading old shows, movies or games now

 

[Jiehfeng]

My favourite buttkick site still lives, so I don't care. ;O;

 

[grossaffe]

True, there's always Somalia, no real government infrastructure or laws there

The Pirate Bay in Somalia? I can't see Somalia being host to piracy.

 

[Centrix]

Not worried, this has happened before to other torrent sites and they just pack up and go else where in the world and continue! give them time, I'd be surprised if this was the last time we hear from the bay guys

 

[the_randomizer]

Dammit Sweden this is why nobody likes you.
The problem with hosting in shitty countries is that your website works like dogshit. It'd take several minutes to load any page.

True, but, you wouldn't have all those sycophantic anti-piracy activists after them.

 

[PewnyPL]

It will be back tomorrow. It was taken down by police like what, 2 times already? They even joked that it took longer to get it back up when one of the admins got drunk and tripped over a power cable.

 

[Xzi]

I think their redundant systems will take some time before they come online. TPB will be back in one form or another, and another ten torrent sites will spawn in addition. This is the way the internet reacts to something like this.

 

[TVL]

Well in defense of the police it is much safer and easier to raid a server hall than to solve real crimes.