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So is Pirate Bay gubbed?

Not been able get on the site for about 3 days now.

i used it today, actually.

Fine threat puts The Pirate Bay off the Intenet
August 25, 2009 - 7:50PM

The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, is off the Internet after a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine, news reports said Tuesday.

Stockholm's district court on Monday ordered Black Internet to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay or face a fine of 500,000 kronor (70,000 US dollars, 50,000 euros).

"We received the decision about the fine shortly after lunch and shut down the capacity just before 3:00 pm," Black Internet's chief executive Victor Moeller told the online edition of the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

"There are laws and rules in society and they should be respected," he said.

AFP's attempts to access the website on Tuesday were unsuccessful.

A Swedish court in April found the four men behind The Pirate Bay guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running the site, sentencing them to a year in prison.

They were also ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor (2.72 million euros, 3.56 million US dollars) to the movie and recording industry.

The four have appealed the verdict, and -- prior to Monday -- the site remained in operation.

However, the movie industry in July again sued The Pirate Bay over 100 movies and television series, demanding that the three men who run the site (the fourth is their financier) and Black Internet be prevented from operating the site.

The Stockholm court ruled on Monday that Black Internet had to pull The Pirate Bay off the web until the latest lawsuit has been resolved, or pay the fine, Dagens Nyheter said.

Moeller said he expected The Pirate Bay to be up and running shortly through another provider.

"They're going to be able to re-route and get capacity elsewhere, but it will take a little time," he told the paper.

Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and computer game files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.

None of the material can be found on The Pirate Bay server itself
















maybe it's just europe? i'm not sure...hmm

just use torrent listing sites :P

edit: their page says:
En olycka kommer s�llan ensam.
We have some issues with some fibres that was broken. Didn't know before we had to try them out. Thanks for helping us find the issues in our setup. *Kisses*
Back online in a few hours.
For now you can find torrents at google. See, we're nice people, always helping!

duh... one word: torrentz dot com

News

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Update: As expected, The Pirate Bay site relocated and is back online. 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.

ah you're all lovely people really.

How long until they go after google & search engines for listing the sites

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan Black Internet

Even if TPB were shut down, Torrent 2 is just around the corner.

Also, embedding .torrents into .jpg files with private trackers. lulllsssssss, authorities.

torrents

so one one here can afford media? really?

I really can't.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8219652.stm

just read this.

I liked PB for its Hot100 lists. Any other site has convenient Hot100 or top lists?

you people are killing society....you will make the Muffin Man mad

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Originally posted by Ian http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8219652.stm just read this.

good....I say bring it on....the less people on the internet the better....hopefully this will speed up my porn downloading.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I really can't.

*casts black hoodie spell of prosperity*

Demonoid

For real though, torrents (and their inevitable development) are the future of music. For example, I downloaded a 13gig David Bowie discography torrent in 3 days last week. Pretty much everything the man has ever done and recorded. A collection like that would probably cost more than $1000USD, and it's all in lossless.

Affordability has even less to do with it than sheer availability of both common commercial releases as well as rarities and whatnot. If record companies were smart, they'd be on this. But they're not, and even worse, they are being stubborn to what could be an amazing evolutionary step in entertainment and delivery. And so they shall continue to be stolen from, and people who download Hot100 lists shall continue to be the ones getting caught.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced good....I say bring it on....the less people on the internet the better....hopefully this will speed up my porn downloading.

so you are saying that if they changed, you would pay for things?

come on now.

No, I'm saying other suckers would because some people live with a conscience or something.

quote:

Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On If record companies were smart, they'd be on this. But they're not, and even worse, they are being stubborn to what could be an amazing evolutionary step in entertainment and delivery.

This is a huge point imo. People want things that can be got illegally but not legally in the same sort of way. The sooner someone takes the initiative and tries to offer something new, the better in both ways.

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Originally posted by lenazi so you are saying that if they changed, you would pay for things? come on now.

I agree...if you want your music, television, movies, etc. then pay for them. If you can't afford them then you really need to get a job or a better job...the stuff doesn't cost that much.

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