Pirate Bay taken down by Swedish Authorities

[efq]

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

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 )!

[Jordy]

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

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.