Sweden takes TPB offline, but it’s back

Robert Hallock 24 Aug, 2009 at 1:55pm ET Article published in Tech

Today the Stockholm district court that handled The Pirate Bay’s springtime case ordered the site’s primary bandwidth provider, Black Internet, to disconnect the site or face penalties.

Citing compliance with Swedish law, Black Internet did disconnect The Pirate Bay, but the site has since relocated and is back online. In true Pirate Bay fashion, the site has taken to patronizing big copyright with a blog update denouncing the act.

“The MAFIAA has spent millions of dollars and endless amounts of time to get this ban in order. Our guess is that they also bribed a bit to get it since it violates so many laws not only in Sweden but also in the EU, not to mention violations against human rights. And what do they have to show for it? 3 hours of partial downtime,” they wrote.

Additional civil cases brought against The Pirate Bay are pending, and these too could have an impact on the site’s uptime in the coming days.

Comments

24 Aug 2009 ~ 2:02pm Obsidian I can't believe I never noticed the The Music And Film Industry Association of America is so close to the Mafia. It makes sense, I guess. With the odd name it seems almost as if that was their intention though.
24 Aug 2009 ~ 2:19pm Snarkasm It's not their actual name. The MPAA and RIAA have not joined forces and created the MAFIAA.
24 Aug 2009 ~ 2:51pm ardichoke I wish they would though. Truth in acronyms anyone?
24 Aug 2009 ~ 5:03pm Cliff_Forster I guess I had better get downloading now??
24 Aug 2009 ~ 6:38pm Komete I haven't used a torrent site since supernova went down way back when. Newsgroups rule... for now
24 Aug 2009 ~ 7:27pm Thrax Newsgroups have been hunted by the RIAA too.
24 Aug 2009 ~ 10:24pm jared I went to Giganews and never looked back.

Although TPB always hosted some cool stuff. Like 3 seasons of Are You Afraid of the Dark and season 1 of the Chuck Norris cartoon show
26 Aug 2009 ~ 10:26am MrTRiot There's better places out there then TPB....
26 Aug 2009 ~ 2:57pm GnomeWizardd yea well Mininova is kaput now
26 Aug 2009 ~ 3:02pm kryyst

GnomeWizardd wrote:

yea well Mininova is kaput now

ummm ??
26 Aug 2009 ~ 3:08pm Thrax

kryyst wrote:

ummm ??

http://icrontic.com/news/dutch-court-guts-mininova
26 Aug 2009 ~ 3:30pm Snarkasm I think he was questioning GW's point, not his facts.
26 Aug 2009 ~ 3:57pm GnomeWizardd the point is the places are getting scarcer
26 Aug 2009 ~ 4:15pm kryyst Yeah mininova has been ditching trackers since they first got slapped in May. Same with ISOhunt. Trackers go up and down constantly on those sites. The thing is, with mininova anyway someone puts up a copyright tracker and let say it takes 24hrs for them to find it. By then, depending on the popularity of the file 1-5000 people may already be seeding it.

For example a new video game hits launch, or a TV show finishes airing. Those torrents go up very quickly and people search for a few days. They just need to hit the tracker once and start downloading. Once they are grabbing it, the existence of that tracker no longer matters.

For trackers that do get taken down and it's been happening a lot on mininova someone puts them backup again. Now that this court ruling is final I would imagine things will get tighter, but Mininova is far from kaput.