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By: lotnybartek

lotnybartek — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:49:27 +0000

Torrentbytes is fine. And it’ll be.

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Thu, 07 May 2009 21:07:43 +0000

[...] IFPI Goes After Torrent Site Hosting Providers In the aftermath of the Pirate Bay verdict, Sweden has witnessed the demise of many other BitTorrent trackers. But not quite enough according to music industry lobby group IFPI, who are now threatening the hosting providers of torrent sites. The host of private BitTorrent tracker TorrentBytes appears to be one of the first targets. [...]

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By: haha

haha — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:35:33 +0000

NON CAN’T STOP US!!

there is allways some other servers in some other countrys…MUAHHAhahaha

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Thu, 07 May 2009 08:38:31 +0000

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Thu, 07 May 2009 07:35:46 +0000

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Thu, 07 May 2009 07:30:38 +0000

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By: IFPI Using Disputed Pirate Bay Verdict To Claim Web Hosting Companies Are Liable

IFPI Using Disputed Pirate Bay Verdict To Claim Web Hosting Companies Are Liable — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:28:03 +0000

By: John Davis

John Davis — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:45:00 +0000

I say piss on the IFPI.

privacy-web.net.tc

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By: evilperro

evilperro — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:36:59 +0000

TorrentBytes is now up!

By: TPB

TPB — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:08:29 +0000

TPB is simply overloaded.
IMHO because everyone is now using it.

By: Dremin_th

Dremin_th — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:23:20 +0000

TPB website is down for 2 days now. The site responds to pings, though, that means it is alive. My guess is the web server must be down, and no one is there to restart it.

Of course you do not a tracker to download torrents, but you need to *have* the torrent to get the files. So, if the trackers are down, how are we going to find the torrents, or make them available to others?

Anyone knows of an alternative for this? The information must be allowed to be shared. When they manage to shut down the flow of information, they will manage to keep us in the dark.
We are scattered all over the world, we must find a way to communicate with eachother.

They are ready to make their final moves. Who knows how much time we still have?

By: DCP and TB

DCP and TB — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:41:13 +0000

“DCP can’t take down TB because TB isn’t hosted on/at DCP”.

Sooooooooo I guess either things changed quicker than the news came out or the news or IFPI or someone are just not up to speed :p

Either way, hosting is as interchangeable as underwear, how will sending empty threats out to random hosts help close a site? They’ll just relocate. Someone eventually will take the business, it’s just a php based, search front-end having database of metadata anyhow..it’s nothing illegal per se, it’s just lobbyism pushing legal interpretation towards that.

It’s like saying even a cafe that has only mafioso as guests is illegal in itself, despite only serving coffee and bagels..bit silly.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:36:18 +0000

“Eh… Bye bye torrents… Time to figure out how to do it fast, 100% decentralized and encrypted ;-)”

Torrent is not dead.

But any way this has been figured out already within BT.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:23:44 +0000

IT’S GAME OVER DUD! The music industry of parasites is dead!

It is over!

They pissed up to many people.

THEY ARE DEAD!

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:17:49 +0000

Eh… Bye bye torrents… Time to figure out how to do it fast, 100% decentralized and encrypted ;-)

By: Happy Pirate

Happy Pirate — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:08:45 +0000

If you don’t like those things: Stop buying products from those that are responsible for it!

Every money you give them will be used against you.

At this point of time it is arguably much more ethical to pirate stuff than not to.

So be like me, be a happy pirate!

By: 412

412 — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:31:44 +0000

Can anyone from TPB verify why they are now offline ???

By: TPB Down

TPB Down — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:59:28 +0000

TPB Is down

Is this the reason why..?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:54:53 +0000

TB is Down :(

By: kos

kos — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:10:03 +0000

When are you people going to learn you don’t need a tracker for torrents to download let the take down the trackers wont stop nothing…
Just shows you what the IFPI knows

By: tucny tukan

tucny tukan — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:34:26 +0000

TPB tracker is still up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:29:27 +0000

How about just finding the poorest country in the world, and pay them to change the law and then host a torrent site. security would be an issue, but if the only way they’d recieve payment was to keep the service up, they would probably keep it running.

By: Pontén rules

Pontén rules — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:25:30 +0000

No it seems down right now.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:21:50 +0000

@Peter

According to the TBy staff the machines are not hosted in sweden.

By: quack_q

quack_q — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:18:27 +0000

@Peter

I woudnt say shit tracker.

Torrentbytes IS NOT P2L tracker like most of the “cool” trackers are.

One of the greatest communities.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:33:59 +0000

TorrentBytes is a shit tracker anyways so who cares.. and hwo stupid can u be to host it in sweden now :/

By: Ghostofchris

Ghostofchris — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:14:50 +0000

TPB is down for me as well…
*opens drawer and grabs tinfoil hat*

By: Reaperman

Reaperman — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:12:01 +0000

Its GAME OVER dudes, most major torrent sites will close within this week. Most global ISP signed the “ban program” to prevent Childporn and illigal downloads. Its over..

By: RamsesII

RamsesII — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:08:37 +0000

Torrentbytes is down, Filelist down also.. both are hosted by DCP Networks.. find it hard to believe that both sites have server maintenance at the moment, so something else is going on

By: Aj

Aj — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:07:36 +0000

This is actually great news! The more people these anti-piracy loons piss off with their strong arm tactics, the more enemies they make. Nobody needs to bother fighting them, they’ll kill themselves in the end.

By: Cujothemadog

Cujothemadog — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:02:22 +0000

ping thepiratebay.org works

By: desuru

desuru — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:44:45 +0000

is there anywhere (else) that will have information on why TPB and proxy are down?

By: heartseeding

heartseeding — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:25:25 +0000

even the ipv6 version of tpb is down

By: haz09

haz09 — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:13:35 +0000

TPB is down for me also.

By: Al Ammar

Al Ammar — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:48:59 +0000

Hey guys TPB is done again?
its not loading……
Whats going on…..

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:40:44 +0000

Torrentbytes was never down to do with this, it was a planned downtime and known in advance that the downtime would happen. Stop drawing quick conclusions.

By: Cordelia

Cordelia — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:28:44 +0000

Why aren’t there more trackers in ROMANIA? Apparently people there have the fastest upload speeds in the world and they are notorious pirates to boot. It’s a place to watch!

By: Jasper van Weerd

Jasper van Weerd — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:02:45 +0000

What I still dont understand, is that no-one can run a private tracker. If everyone would auto install a tracker inside his or her torrent client, and a scraper takes all info from these clients to an index (tpb, torrentz, etc,) then the total system is decentralized.

The only thing a person uploads to the scraper is a torrent file (what you download now). This way no illegal files are hosted on any scraper.

Secondly, when a scraper goes down, it shoud not be a problem, since you could add as much scraper accounts to your own torrent client as you want.

The way discribed makes it not possible to crack down servers in sweden, since they dont track anymore, they just host the location of files all over user places. And its all meta data…

By: subzero

subzero — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:27:41 +0000

Finally, demonoid is back without slow webproxy for me. Maybe they’re blocking other country’s now.

By: MyNAME

MyNAME — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:17:05 +0000

FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P

By: d35i

d35i — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:39:39 +0000

hosting providers have no risk

By: Mr Download

Mr Download — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:27:59 +0000

it terrible that they’re trying to stop file sharing
if they we’re to succeed i would set my 1/2 open connects to 1000 and download the internet to my rycycle bin for the next six months in protest :P

By: gameloo.info

gameloo.info — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:35 +0000

They will not win the wind!

By: riaarard

riaarard — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:11:09 +0000

REVOLUTION NOW!!!!!!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:05:22 +0000

yep demonoid backup