The Pirate Party Becomes The Pirate Bay’s New Host
Written by enigmax on May 18, 2010After its previous bandwidth provider had to take the site offline due to concerns over an aggressive Hollywood injunction, today The Pirate Bay is fully back in operation with a surprising new supplier. From a few hours ago, in a move intended to “stand up for freedom of expression”, the Swedish Pirate Party became the site’s new host.
Following an injunction obtained by several major Hollywood movie studios, yesterday Pirate Bay bandwidth provider CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG took the decision to take the site offline while it digested the legal implications.
That meant that for several hours The Pirate Bay, for the first time in many months, was taken offline. An insider at the site told TorrentFreak that people shouldn’t worry, and that the site would soon return.
By start of play this morning that promise had been kept. In most corners of the globe, the world’s most resilient BitTorrent tracker was living up to its name by coming back online with a new and as yet unnamed host.
Now the identity of the site’s ISP has been revealed, and it is a somewhat of a surprising revelation.
“Today, on 18 May, the Swedish Pirate Party took over the delivery of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay,” says the Party’s Rick Falkvinge in a statement.
“We got tired of Hollywood’s cat and mouse game with the Pirate Bay so we decided to offer the site bandwidth,” he adds. “It is time to take the bull by the horns and stand up for what we believe is a legitimate activity.”
The Pirate Party say they will provide bandwidth to the site’s homepage and search engine.
“The Pirate Bay is a search engine, and as such it is not responsible for the results,” notes Falkvinge.
The Party adds the attempts at censoring The Pirate Bay “is an attempt to silence one of today’s most important opinion makers in matters of civil liberties and rights on the web,” adding that it is “nothing less than political censorship, and something that any democratic-minded person must reject.”
With a general election coming up in Sweden, the Pirate Party’s move is also an attempt to reiterate what the Pirate Party stands for.
“It feels great to get an opportunity like this to demonstrate that we put our money were our mouth is,” Falkvinge told TorrentFreak. “We’re not your run-of-the-mill politician who commissions reports and spends 8 hours a day avoiding blame. We’re people committing our own resources and time to the values we believe in.”
“The only thing we have in common with today’s politicians is that you can vote for us, and I hope this demonstrates how we are prepared to take responsibility for civil liberties and the future of the net in a very direct way,” he added.
Meanwhile, a Pirate Bay insider remains vague about the exact location(s) of the Pirate Bay servers, and ensured TorrentFreak that nothing is as it seems. The important thing though, is that the site is fully functional again.
Previously: ISP Must Reveal Who Runs SweTorrents BitTorrent Tracker
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212 Responses
I knew it, TPB always returns :D
Good job me mateys :p
We’ll win every battle. arrrg
I guess the PP will live and die on this decision.
i didnt vote for pirate party in the eu election and i will not vote for them in the election this fall in sweden
but as a one-question party they are working with a really important question and i hope they do well
they stand up to the capitalism of hollywood
Lol, noone can stop TPB :)
Yesss!
Three cheers for TPB, three cheers for Pirate Party, three…umm, strikes for the morons at MAFIAA HQ..
Hippp Hippp…
And now the games may…
http://free-image-host.ezee.se/pic.php?p=11805100_cat-proceed.jpg
:))
Epic comeback as usual … :D
Ok, we ALL knew they would be back!
years & years and the most anyone
can do is a few hours!
Sweet!
This is interesting… What will happen if the Swedish Pirate Party is legally asked to disconnect The Pirate Bay?
I was thinking this kind of move should have been more of a last resort kind of thing..
If the Swedish Pirate Party cannot hold up to the pressure, it would mean the Pirate Bay will have a harder time finding a good host.
I am a tad confused!Would it not be a little unwise to advertise who your bandwidth suppliers were?If nothing else would it not make it easier and quicker to serve injunctions?I suppose I must have faith in the boys who always have remained one step ahead.May they continue to so do.My best wishes to you!Plain sailing!
One _small_ swedish party vs mafia?
i prefered Cat&mouse!
Go Get ‘em, TBP!
iteresting.
since a part of sweden has free speech law
and the freedom of press legislation as two of the 4 big things in swedish constitution
and pp is a politic party…
will monique wadsted claim that a poltic party also should be shut down? :D
Well done, Pirate Party! :D
Got to admit there very persistent, good work
@#4: They are not a one-question party. Go read up on their “principprogram” before voting this fall.
This is great news :) I hope the discussion can now be oriented around whats _really_ is going on in this monkeybusiness, not only about copyright bullshit. The “industry” are a threat to a free thinking sosciety!
@#4
Yeah, please read their principprogram, I don’t care if you disagree with it but yeah, maybe it’ll stop you from saying they’re a one question party :D
Dear mpaa,
one word comes to mind yet again after the last attempt to silence the free world… checkmate
Nice!
So i can upload more torrenz on TPB, with a vpn because i’m in a stupid and fascist country (Italy) :(
TPB <3
HAHAHA YEARRRRRRRRRRRRR!! Like i said in earlier posts, it will take more than ICE and $$$ to sink the unsinkable!! Welcome back TPB!!
God bless Sweden.
God bless Sweden.
“AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL. OURS RLY NICE WEBHOST WUZ THREATEND WIF RLY HUGE FINE, SO WE DECIDD 2 MOOV TEH SIET SO DAT THEY DIDNT GOT INTO TROUBLE, LOL. TEH DECISHUN 2 MOOV WUZ TAKEN BY US, TEH PIRATE BAY, LOL.
TEH PIRATE BAY IZ AN UNSINKABLE SHIP. IT WILL SAIL TEH INTERWEBS 4 AS LONG AS WE WANTS IT 2. REMEMBR DAT, K THX.
TPB, ONLY IN IT 4 TEH LULZ SINCE 2003″
Viva La TPB
Can Someone Contact Hollywood and tell em to produce a movie …OOPS
Land Ahoy me hearties.
ASSCLOWNS!
Anyone picture old corporate guys running around frantically trying to figure out what the picture means?
“Check”Is perhaps more appropriate at this stage.However I agree that the “big” picture is that our democratic rights are under real threat!
LOL!!!
This must be some kind of stupid joke. So a political party decides to ingnore the decision of their own courts.
Filesharing is cool and all, but this is undermining the rule of law…
i am so happy that someone like TPB is here to fight against the MPAA and the rest of those maggots … long live TPB …. never give up, never surrender! judges all over the worl are becoming slaves to the mighty. they are corrupted servants and nothing good can come from their decisions. bloody bastards…
…moreover it will likely be the end of the Pirate Party: they are willingly hosting a website the content of which has been deemed illegal.
ThePirateBay may be back, but there seems to be trouble uploading torrents.
yeah horah harah
Oh snap. That is awesome!
HURRAY HURRAY HURRAY !!!!!!!
That was quick.
TPB is a beautiful thing it should stay online forever. Fuck those greedy basters who want more and more money. Thanks to TPB the poor people can have some fun too!
well done that man!! may you achieve the success that you and all believers in net neutrality deserve and crave for!! this will now probably end up in the ECJ, because i think the copyright industries will soon be issuing court proceedings against TPP. if that happens, at least we will all know whether the Court of Human rights actually stands for human rights or just for big business!
@PhDiddy:
Nuance is of essence. Law is nuanced. The injunction has specific implications and scope. Not everybody who under any condition seemingly challenges a court’s decision “is undermining the rule of law.”
Even then, there’s this nifty little thing called civil disobedience which in democratic countries _used to_ act as a safety valve for when people’s will and the state’s will (under corporate pressure) did not quite align. Not anymore, it seems, since last year in Pittsburgh CS gas was used on peaceful US demonstrators who gathered to protest the G20 summit. And these days one industrialist’s vote is worth a couple million votes of the “little people.”
The Pirate Party chose an opportune time to test the limits of tolerance of corporate fascism. What happens to TPP and TPB in the not-so-long run will be a good indicator of what will happen to anybody who tries to challenge the interests of the beneficiares of corporate fascism.
Will the corporate fascism at least play by its very own rules or will it just topple the board, raid data centers, dish out longer terms of imprisonment for “infringement” than for murder, and so on?
#30 well.. since we have laws saying you are free to say and print what ever you want.. and tpb is a search engine it shoudlnt break the law..
but then we have hollywood and the trial thats is just a politic thing and court seems to follow that lead..makes it illeagal
HAIL PIRATE BAY!!!!!!!
“So a political party decides to ingnore the decision of their own courts.”
No, it ignores the decision of another country’s court. The court that ordered the shutdown was German and the current host of TPB is the Pirate Party of Sweden.
Swedish courts ordered the shutdown of the tracker but Piratpartiet doesn’t host the tracker, only the web page.
power 2 the people
Drastic.
If the MPAA, RIAA, etc. actually have to sue an active and not unsuccessfull political party, this is going to be interesting.
_|_ SUCK IT MPAA RIA MAFIAAA _|_
@PhDiddy
The rule of law is flawed and corrupt
EPIC !! TPB has shutdown their tracker and deleted all torrentfiles (that is distributed amongst the users)… What is left is a search page; And that can’t be illegal in any country !! (except maybe china)
Freedom to think is a principle that can never be defeated in creative minds. If the RIAA wants to defend the Pirates then build a better mouse trap for these guys have displayed that they are smarter than you are so far. You build better encryption and that challenges them to be better at decrypting it and the whole intellegence base gets smarter for the challange. We all benefit from this battle of the minds and the hell with lawyers, they have done enough to hold us down for way to long. It is, and will remain, OUR internet and intelligence shall always remain NEUTERAL!
NICE, well this takes things to another, even higher level!
congrats on the decision, c u arround @ TPB! :)
Please donate money to the Pirate Party! The Swedish election is coming up in September and every penny counts!
http://www.piratpartiet.se/donate
People Stop Supporting Hollywood Make Them Go Get A real Job,Support The Pirate Bay
Send The RIAA where they are needed To The Gulf Of Mexico with tea spoons to clean up oil spill and no boats!
I applaud you TPB.
I have never used the pirate bay…
PIRACY PREVAILS!
But..When I get a computer I am sure gonna give it a good go!
ok… so swedish pirate party hosting TPB hmm… well either way after many ping tests from different locations around europe – and many tracerts etc… we found that the best ping to TPB is from Donetsk (Ukraine) :
Command: traceroute 194.71.107.15
1 194.71.107.15 (194.71.107.15) [AS 35320] 12 msec
tracerts from many other locations went via ukraine weird for the swedish pirate party to host in .ua
either way – this shows that TPB are back in ukraine – how long will this visit last?
More Popcorn!
We allways Pirets arrrg
ray
ray hey!
Like I wrote yesterday, the corporations will never win. Cut off one segment another pops up. OVER AND OVER again.
SHIVER ME TIMBERS, and crack the rum The Pirate Bay is back up for some FUN!
Well thanks theddlera.RU mafia demonstrating what a great pinger ur? I am sure tpb appreciates your efforts in letting anyone know where they are.You bubble headed booby!
To really make a statement, everyone should support the Swedish Pirate Party by their votes and donations.
Keep TPB afloat too by buying merchandise.
Nothing would please me more than the Swedish Pirate Party becoming the dominant political force in Sweden, even though I live in a country going downhill amid a swill of ACTA and religious humbug. (That country is Australia – I once was proud but am now ashamed to be Australian).
Long live Sweden. Long live TPB and TPP.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAS! lols! this is epics! wes ares thes owners ofs thes internets!!!
@theddlera :: You are a moron my friend.. give some false tracert so that MAAFIA are distracted
Its just a publicity stunt for yet another bunch of self-serving politicians who are intent on gaining popularity in order to fill their own pockets at a future date
Long live TPB…
We love you…
This is great. This was the last thing Hollywood wanted. There is a election this fall and the pirateparty has some problem reaching out through the traditional media. We can only hope Hollywood are so stupid so they sue the pirateparty. If they do that pirateparty will get the 4% votes that are needed. In the latest pools they have about 0,6-0,7% of the votes.
Smart move for Pirate party.
that will make some publicity and will help to regain lost members.
Once police will decide to raid PP headquarters that will raise PP ratings to the sky.
i gotta say, you guys rock
ASSCLOWNSOVTEHRIAA
I’m confused. I see everyone talking about TPB’s tracker, but I thought they permanently took that down a couple of months ago?
Anyway, nice one Pirate Party, glad to also know one of those is also getting set up here in Belgium =).
@Theriddler (A.K.A: Retard)
Do you actually think TPB’d make it that easy?
Effing retard.
Grow up, learn that just because your Youtube friends think a tracert (Linux name for it btw, mr scriptkiddy) will bring down a server with a few pings doesn’t work. How about using this thing called ‘common sense’ and then Googling such a matter?
Interesting, eircom (an ISP in Ireland) had blocked TPB following an agreement with the record industries. The new IP isn’t blocked anymore.
Me feeel you Pirate bay, i always knew u will be back, was jux worried about ya., miss so much
Irish Guy, eircom still have it blocked.
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds, MAFIAA vs Political Party this cat and mouse game has to end sometime, my bets are on a pp victory.
LOL… NOW trying to shut down PP will be MAFIAA digging a grave for itself in Sweden. PP made a wise move so that its ratings will surely boost.
It’s all about to be shut down. PP cannot save anything. It’s over. Deal with it kiddies.
the pirate party deserves a party.
You guys so rock.
die mpiaa dinosaurs, get a real job your 25 year leach is over and wont return
@80 Yup! Anytime now!
TPB should unite the people and stop allowing RUDE COMMENTERS TO KEEP POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ASSHOLES BETTER RESPECT YOUR UPLOADERS.
@ 80 May 18, 2010 at 17:41 by Good Stuff
No.. it’s just beginning. A global snowball that just keeps increasing in size until it crushes the the outdated business models.
And don’t call me “kiddie” since I am probably twice as old as you.
Can confirm that TPB is accessible through Eircom.
@80 I thnik you will find it far from over, maybe your wishful thinking.
You will find it is alive here,
http://thepiratebay.org/
If you require any more links I can supply you with thousands more and there’s more popping up each day.
Exciting isn’t it!
@80 – @84 does have a point because I too am in my forties so to call us kiddies is rather kiddyish!
Wow, just look at the audio top100 …
Internet…I’m disappointed :(
TF didnt make their homework:
“the world’s most resilient BitTorrent tracker”
Its not a tracker anymore, its only a site. Just as any other website. So, die_aRIhoeAA.
america wants to teach others about freedom! GIVE ME A BREAK!
Give monez to TPB and support them
I helped with 10USD hope you guys do the same
every cent will help them keep fighting
watch Zeitgeist movies
ARRRRRR!!!
Long live TPB.
TPB Will never die, those naive idiots at BREIN and the US anti-piracy organizations can never kill TPB, or our freedom to browse whatever site we want to
THE PIRATEBAY IS EFFING UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUZZAH PIRATES!
HAHAHA! That pic is perfect. PIRATE WIN! I seriously can’t stop laughing my arse off right now!
FURTHER ASSIMILATION IS REQUIRED
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
LOL
Support “The Pirate Party”.
I really liked that image,funny as hell.
Piratebay for the win!
If you didn’t love TPB before, you gotta love em’ now! This feels like such a win for the people! Finally there’s a group with the balls to resist these corporate A-holes! Long live TPB!
My quadary is this:
why is there almost no publicity, news stories etc.
Surely some reporter somewhere who wants a Pulitzer can see a block op here; the connection between using corporate money as an excuse to close the freedom of the internet?
Or am I just being paranoid….
@ 1 thru 100, EVERYONE!
What if the Pirate Party thing is just a joke? I agree, it is unwise to reveal who their REAL bandwidth providers are. That’s why I think the Pirate Party thing is a decoy, and a joke on the MAFIAA and Hollywood!
That’s meant to read BLACK Op…
That’s meant to read ‘black’ op..
Great job guys! :-)
LMFAO @ the RIAA clowns posting here. Poor kids.
tpb can i marry you :P
frigging awesome move mates
Hehe, Pirate Party my ass.
TPB’s traffic is now being routed through the Ukraine via DCP Networks ASN.Guess who owns DCP Networks? Fredrik Neij aka TiAMO. Anyone with a brain can find this out with a traceroute.
=)
ban maffia trolls from this site please…thank you
Awesome, simply awesome! Way to go TPB!
We need a pirate party in every country/state in the world….
It’s becoming a PAIN in the ass here in the states to torrent… Even LEGIT torrents are starting to become screwed up be large networks that hate pirates…
I can hear the lawyers telling their wives, ” go ahead honey order that Lexus, this ain’t over yet”.
Long live TPB.
Lol, If you go read the actual blog post. The Bolded letters spell out
“ASSCLOWNS OV TEH RIAA”
@90 jealous much
TPB moved their servers into the Jolly Roger. You can’t kill what can not be killed.
Hey Hollywood, MPAA, RIAA,
Listen to “This Note’s For You” by Neil Young.
‘Nuff said.
P.S. Up Yours!
life is good
TPB WIN…
Long live TPB!
Does this mean that the Swedish government is supporting TPB by supporting TPP?
Sweet Back to Downloading but it is still a little slow…but at least it is back WHOOT WHOOT ship can’t sink it is better then the Titanic LOL <3 Full Steam Ahead Captain
I can haz The Pirate Bay!
Just a message for all the Anti-P2P people….
Because of the wonders of DHT and PEX, we were still downloading/uploading when the Pirate Bay was down.
I hope that stings.
Other than a few serries that aren’t available here (like The Amazing Race) I never download anything anymore, the reason, got a DVR so I simply record everything I want and skip the comercials, legal surprisingly hassle free.
As of right now, it seems TPB is still in Germany. :/
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2361780/piratebay.JPG
seems like got problems already. cant open site.
seems like got problems already. cant open site.
Would CB3ROB be able to reroute disney.any-extension to thepiratebay.org now ? And while he’s at it take out disnylandparis with it (no more reservations to the park).
Would be fun…
(A dutch site thinks they went east instead of the Swedisch pirate party)
@123 anonymous coward
LOL!!
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100518/0215119458.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100507/1450489342.shtml
not sure if it affects any1 outside the US but it will soon. Bastards!
@123
sorry, had to add 1 more
“legal surprisingly hassle free”
legal being the lol here
This steps up the battle for freedoms but all the mpaa tards have to do is attack the host of the new tracker.
PP isn’t hosting the tracker.
Join and donate to PP!!
now i can approve them as something you can vote for
I voted on the PP last time and will vote for them next time (very soon). It is time to end this witch hunt, where companies that make gazillion dollars can run over any countries legal system and harass whomever they want. I am proud to be a Swede. heja piratpartiet :D
this freak: 124.209.127.201 fux with DHT
TPB is down for me now!
Haha knew it wouldn’t be down for long
Down again.
Some statistics for The Pirate Bay….
__May, 2006__
1,020,904 registered users
149,662 torrents
__May, 2010 (post-injunction nonsense)__
4,360,226 registered users
2,802,037 torrents
I don’t think anything else needs to be said.
Have a nice day.
Yah, they just went offline again…
134 and 137….you´re downtime must be a local problem. The bay is up and running on ipredator…
TPB is currently offline in Yorkshire, United Kingdom
offline in guadalajara, mexico
http://www.activepolitic.com/2/News/05-18.html#Internet
tpb is down in Ireland now
had it earlier but down again
11pm
haha theyr “atack’s are futile they are few, we are many!
haha theyr “atack’s” are futile they are few, we are many!
Can’t access in the US? Been timing out all day :(
It is currently offline in Toronto, Canada too. You are a giant, no one can defeat you!
TPB is currently down in Finland, too.
Perfectly accessible from France ;-)
down in Belgium…..
No, do not worry about it. However, we found that one of the firewalls was too weak and is dimensioned and fix it right now. It takes care of routing from some operators, while customers of other through different channels and therefore will still sideways.
Nejdå, oroa dig inte för det. Däremot upptäckte vi att en av brandväggarna var lite för klent dimensionerad och håller på och fixar det just nu. Den har hand om routing från vissa operatörer medan kunder hos andra går andra vägar och alltså fortfarande kommer åt sidan.
- Rickard Olsson
LOL!!!
I love it. WB TPB.
Dear Pirate Parties of all countries,
<3!
Sincerely Yours,
The team at Black Swan
Inaccessible in mexico
IT IS ON TPB IS ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Gött de, ni e fn bäst guttar
Incredible bravery on the part of the Swedish Pirate Party.
I salute you!
TPB back in Canada as of about 10-15 minutes ago
omg this is epic hahhaha
HOLY EPICALLY EPIC EVENT, BATMAN!!
TPB always surpasses all expectations. *bows down in deep respect*
And LOL at the pic. Just AWESOME!
I truly wanna know what’s gonna happen now! MAFIAA: failing hard for our amusement. TPB: winning epically for our amazement.
Please help to raise money for the election!
http://www.piratpartiet.se/donate
TBP is perfectly running, as seen from Germany (and has been the whole day).
#108 ifconfig: “Anyone with a brain can find this out with a traceroute.”
Anyone with a brain knows that intermediary hops on GRE tunnels (which are a kind of big and fat VPN for network providers), are invisible to traceroute… ;-)
Sweet Home Alabama.
Also, good news.
Hey Pirate Bay still kick’n. But you know…what happens when hollywood and everyone else goes bankrupt because no one buys their stuff? Won’t Pirate Bay disappear?
Hey I don’t mind free stuff…but ya know the producers and creators of the original media need to make money somehow to keep up operations…and good production quality..
Some respect is called for..hmm don’t know who’s side to take.
@165 I think they make enough money, for exemple, Avatar make more money then Titanic on the box office. And at the same time it was one of the most downloaded torrent. They make money more then ever and the worts in this is that all this money don’t go to the creators of the movies … anyways pirate for life <3
(BTW sorry if i made some English mistakes, i'm French but i'm trying xD)
Brilliant idea. Now The Pirate Party has earned themselves a spot in jail alongside the pirate bay. This career criminals never seem like they will never learn.
When are they going to toss these clowns in jail so they learn their lesson?
Oh Pirate Bay, we stand on guard for thee!
Hahahahaha in YOUR FACE!!!!
Greedywood
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You Got to Fullfill the Book!
The Book of Freedom
Bob Marley, do your thing Guy.
Be Waterborded, and still fight the Industrial Corporate Reptillian War God spooks.
whats wrong with you people dam freaky fanboys they will take it down again
pirate bay can not beat the people who beleve they are riping off hardworking people who pay for games dvds and music you cheap hippies
cheap hippies
Ass Clowns Uv Teh RIAA
I <3 you TPB
“bubrub……..I think you mean “ripping”….”Believe” is spelt thus and “damn thus”English lesson over,but if you will indulge me .your method of describing people you know nothing about, leaves a lot of room for improvement!Also the name you give yourself tends to indicate a predisposition towards paedophilia……….If you will pardon me for saying so!
I know that I will with this post step out from the general emotion of victory. I’m just concern about future events.
What is for me logical conclusion about reason for attacks on TPB, is the idea that MAFIAA and forces behind them, knows that PP will at some point start to support TPB against this attacks. You see, MAFIAA is not only against p2p (money issues) but against solidarity and community (new form of solidarity against rule of large capital and ultimately against USA dominance) that we have successfully build around our larger trackers and site indexes.
They have press, tv and radio. All we have is Internet’s, new and not well connected propaganda machine.
Not menu people know what is at stake, they are simply to old fashioned, and continue to use information from old propaganda sources. I was under impression that we should wait (play cat and mouse) and by more time until new generations take control. With this move of pp everything could be at stake. If propaganda starts against PP what we can do to stop it? Almost nothing, since we have no influence on information served for the majority of common people.
The movement could take some serious setbacks, in years to come, if real agenda of MAFIAA attacks on TPB, is to drown in PP in fight, while it still have small footprint.
This is just logical analyses, hope I’m wrong on everything.
The Pirate Bay Return
from Philippines
we applaud at your effort in protecting the freedom.we support pirate bay 100% on its ideals and motivation.
long live TPB and its supporter specially our life line Swedish Pirate Party we salute you
I am really starting to like the Pirate Party. I have no doubts that they can outperform the opposition on other political matters as well. Thumbs up to the Pirate Party.
The Swedish Pirate Party is officially and collectively my hero!
Captain Jack Sparrow:”Summoning the Brethren Court then, is it?”
Captain Barbossa:”It’s our only hope lad.”
The bay is back…
Suck it trolls… :O)
Hey, I’m just being picky but in the article you say “…the world’s most resilient BitTorrent tracker was living up…” — Technically the Pirate Bay does not operate a tracker and has not for some time now. Should perhaps be indexer or something.
PUT UR KNEE ON THEIR THROAT!
People who oppose free file-sharing and internet piracy are denizens of hell.
People who support free file-sharing and internet piracy belongs in heaven.
Why? In heaven, everything is free. In hell, nothing is free.
Piracy = Heaven
MPAA/RIAA = Hell
Media companies want to make the world a hellish place like Hollywood and WMG while they have all the money, luxury and avarice.
TPB4evr
One day when they’ll be writing the history of our times and how freedom of speech and expression prevailed over maximum profit and police state TPB will be up there in the front runners of the movement whether they know it or not.
TPB writing history, taking the whole matter one step up.
Capitalist fascism vs. freedom…
Be assured of my deepest respect, TPB!!
@SomKen
TPB uses a tunnel so they won’t have to reveal the real server location. The tunnel may indeed be located in Germany but the REAL servers can be located anywhere in the world.
@SomKen
TPB uses a tunnel so they won’t have to reveal the real server location. The tunnel may indeed be located in Germany but the REAL servers can be located anywhere in the world.
TPB should only ‘reference’ movies that are rated Arrrrrrrrrr. :)
HAHAHAHAHA IN your face ye corporate parasites, MAFIAA,RIA,MPAA, not even 12 hours downtime, YAWN!! and just to be irritating i downloaded green zone,bounty hunter, and kickass via TPB…AND HAVE SEEDED 2.1 ratio!! come and get me if you can, vpn/proxy:D KISS MY ASS
Grats to the bay… may they keep afloat long after the MAFIAA is down in the locker.
thank god i couldn’t lost you too i already lost mininova
it is a great and necessary move to politicise the filesharing movement and spur the youth to political activity in support of OUR culture
http://www.h33t.com respect to TPB we are all behind you every step of the way
I’ll be sure to vote for the pirate party.
nice move, respect.
Tightasa:
Smart or not, this is a political action from a small party in an election year in Sweden. Crunch time, you might say, and the PP regained some lost initiative and got some publicity to boot. I support that.
As for TPB, don’t worry, it will always reappear with a new host if somehow the PP is forced to abandon ship ;-)
Victorious, once again! Long live the fighters! Long live the Pirate Bay!
i’ms in yours skynets, lollings aways ats yours futiles attempts at controllings ours internets
I hope Demonoid learns a few things. Demonoid’s never returned this fast.
i’ms in yours skynets, lollings aways ats yours futiles attempts at controllings ours internets.
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that is what the pirate bay just sent you mpaa, now the question is how persistent and how many millions more are you going to was on this, the only money you are losing to them is the money you are spending, there are 6 billon ppl on this planet. only about 300 million maybe less then that actually download movies and watch them, the other 5.7 billion is all profit, so are you really hurting for money?
Keyboard cat, play MPAA/RIAA off!
long live the TPB?
Stuff like this surprises me because ive lost all hope in the system long ago..
its like surprise after surprise they keep coming back and it proves that people do still stand up for whats right.. its amazing.. i didnt think it existed anymore honestly.
TPB.. legends forever.
Olab Thanks for the elucidation!You sound close to the fray
Theft is theft, no matter how you put it.
TPB is not a ‘stab at capitalism’ as someone put it. It is damaging to artists and programmers. The former is known for moving the world forward, the latter is becoming known for doing so.
That said, piracy is currently the only way consumers realistically have to complain to price-fixing mega corporations who add DRM, stupid licensing terms, proprietary lock-ins, and commercials into purchased products.
The pirate party would have a much better reception if the image portrayed was piracy only of products that were unreasonable due to the reasons mentioned above, and purchasing of other games.
Pimps are pimps no matter how you slice it.
Artists no longer need them.
That prospect must be very terrifying for a pimp. He might have to get a new job!
The Horror! The Horror!
So that’s why TPB was inaccessible several days ago…
Also, what is DRM?
@ 206 May 20, 2010 at 21:16 by Mehhh
“Theft is theft, no matter how you put it.”
This is a true statement.
And filesharing is filesharing, no matter how you put it.
But filesharing does not equate to theft. Filesharing could be called “copyright infringement” if it actually infringes and that is usually considered a civil offense. Theft is usually considered a criminal offense.
Apples and oranges.
The article’s conclusion isn’t right : the tracker is NOT fully functional.
Have the author tried it? I bet : no
I wish I lived in Sweden right about now.
Piratebay can’t be stoped
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