Pirate Bay taken down by Swedish Authorities

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Swedish authorities take the website down

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.

pirate bayToday, Stockholm’s district court took action to completely remove The Pirate Bay from the Internet.

The court ordered the site’s major bandwidth supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face penalties of 500,000 kroner ($70,600). The ISP complied, saying that it had no choice but to uphold the law.

The censorship of The Pirate Bay will continue pending the outcome of a civil action taken by several entertainment companies including Disney, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Sony, NBC and Paramount.

Rick Falkvinge, leader of The Pirate Party said: “This is absolutely ridiculous. The Court seems to consider themselves above the Constitution,” while criticizing the effect that these civil actions are having on freedom of speech. “This clarifies how copyright law has become untenable, and how information is lacking political skills in the judiciary,” he added.

Black Internet is probably not the only supplier of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, so it may be possible for them to reconnect to the Internet elsewhere. Whether or not another Swedish supplier would even consider doing that is seriously in doubt.

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.There is no way to stop them, the world should give up. Piratebay is the best :D

Threads merged by iAdam (Forum Moderator); Threads are of the same relevance.

[Hitman]

Ahhh I wondered why it wasn't loading... I always think that it might have been taken down every time it's down, and this time it is.

Ah well.

[Ardemax]

guess who's back... back again


well isn't this good news

[Laurensh1]

There's no way to stop them because they uploaded the whole site and all torrents :)

[Mentor]

Word on the street is the piratebay sorted out a few alternate isp after the server raid a few years back, the actual outage only lasted 3 hours, right now its just waiting for the DNS to switch over.

At least, thats what i'm hearing :)

[Laurensh1]

Good news (in the Netherlands downloading is legal for own use only :P)! :)

[Jordy]

Good news (in the Netherlands downloading is legal for own use only :P)! :)Didn't know that but the Dutch copyright group, BREIN or something has sued The Pirate Bay haven't they and the owners have to stop access to the Netherlands (Doubt it'll happen).

The Pirate Bay is such crap anyway these days, the search engine is useless, it never comes up with anything useful for me. And it's either slow or down. Isohunt is far better.

[efq]

Didn't know that but the Dutch copyright group, BREIN or something has sued The Pirate Bay haven't they and the owners have to stop access to the Netherlands (Doubt it'll happen).

The Pirate Bay is such crap anyway these days, the search engine is useless, it never comes up with anything useful for me. And it's either slow or down. Isohunt is far better.
Does for me, shows up real time, best and I love it.

[N!ck]

Rumour has it they have servers in around 10 different countries in the world (so they could easily recover if another server raid happened). I reckon it will be back on sometime tomorrow.

[iDenning]

go piratebay, true pirate's, aye.

[Misawa]

Excellent news.

[Laurensh1]

Didn't know that but the Dutch copyright group, BREIN or something has sued The Pirate Bay haven't they and the owners have to stop access to the Netherlands (Doubt it'll happen).

The Pirate Bay is such crap anyway these days, the search engine is useless, it never comes up with anything useful for me. And it's either slow or down. Isohunt is far better.
Yes, BREIN is Dutch and Dutch inhabitants are supposed to not be able to access the pirate bay from 26th of august onwards...

[Flisker]

I guess TPB still is not up since I cannot load it and havent been on there for about a month.

edit: just took off www. from the beginning and got this:



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 (http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=filetype%3Atorrent&btnG=PirateSearch&meta=&aq=f&oq=filetype%3Atorrent). See, we're nice people, always helping!

[Chippiewill]

Finnally
http://static.thepiratebay.org/doodles/fniss.jpg
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/171

[N!ck]

Surprise surprise.

[Pyroka]

pmsl read the blog, thats epic. Can you dig itttt haha

[Describe]

Does for me, shows up real time, best and I love it.
Same, I've always found Piratebays search engine fast and reliable with good results.

[Ardemax]

Yes, BREIN is Dutch and Dutch inhabitants are supposed to not be able to access the pirate bay from 26th of august onwards...


ave fun downloadin stuff 2moz kk

[Recursion]

Man TPB crew are amazing.

[Chippiewill]

TPB Crew have left us some messages :)


The t-shirt

The t-shirt on the frontpage is actually being made right now. It will be sent to the enemy frontline.
We also suggest that someone raise a fund for Black Internet so that they can decide to fight the decision from Stockholms tingsfel. Talk to them and do something about it.




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.

[Recursion]

TPB Crew have left us some messages :)

Your signature is actually 699 x 300.

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[Chippiewill]

Your signature is actually 699 x 300.

That's the whole point of the signature :P, except the Jewish teddy bear (Inspired by whom I wonder)
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[Recursion]

That's the whole point of the signature :P, except the Jewish teddy bear (Inspired by whom I wonder)

That makes no sense what so ever, you're a pixel off! :P xD

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