ThePirateBay.Org ISP Ordered To “Shut It Down”
In the latest twist of a story we have been following for a while, the ISP which serves as the main backbone for the filing sharing site, (Black Internet) ThePirateBay.org was ordered today to stop servicing the site today or face penalties.
According to various news sources as of 9:30 a.m. PT, ThePirateBay.org appeared to be mostly inaccessible.
Although other ISP’s carry the site, Black Internet was its main backbone.
In other ThePirateBay.org news today, the official, Swedish government run debt-collection agency, commonly referred to as the bailiff, said it could find no attachable assets belonging to 3 of the 4 founders of the site.
The 4 founders were sentenced in April to one year in jail, and fined $3.6 Million Dollars, they have appealed .
As we reported back in June, ThePiratebay.Org was sold for $7.8 million dollars.
The buyer had plans to turn the site into a “legal” site where copyrighted material would not be allowed to be freely shared.
However, last week that company hit with two major issues which may delay or stop the sale.
First, on Friday Swedish officials launched a criminal probe of the company that agreed to buy ThePirateBay.org, for possible insider trading.
According to reports, Global Gaming’s stock rose sharply a week before the company announced its plans to acquire ThePirateBay.org
Second in an unrelated move, trading in Global Gaming shares was halted by the Swedish stock exchange on Friday, after officials requested proof that Global Gaming had enough money to complete the purchase of ThePirateBay.org site, saying they will not let trading resume in the shares until they have furnished proof of funds to the exchange’s satisfaction, which of this morning they still have not.
Seems like another mess involving the highly controversial site.
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Oh noez, TPB is down now! Cannot life without itttttttttttttttttttttttt
They’ll be back up and tracking by tomorrow. Watch. LAWYERS CAN’T KILL BITS.
I Wish they r backkkkkkkkk
All they have to do is host the site in another hoster, in a Country where the swedish court has no jurisdiction, or legal agreements.
Hosting on the moon is a good idea. or greenland for faster tracking.
wtf i luv this site…..
try south africa…
This sucks I was going to download the new true blood episode today damn them.
North Korea or Russia
why cant people just mind there own business, its not like the site is selling drugs or killing people.
I’ve never seen Braveheart, and now I never will…
dont worry about it. minova.org is still up and running get your torrents from thereuntil tpb is back up
KualaLumpur…most spam email ocmes form there too…
I hate copyright,
We all schould,
We need to make clear to those few ppl at the top of it that we dont accept this.
We all need to make ourself strong.
We cant let them scare us !
We need cyber freedom !
Ofcourcse it isnt legal what their doing, but copyright as we know it is freaked out and need freaked out anti copyrighters like tpb !
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OMG WAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON MAN? HOW DID THEY SHUT DOWN THE BEST TORRENT SITE EVER?….WELL I DONT KNOW ABOUT EVER , BUT ARE THERE ANY THERE ANY OTHER SITES HAT GOOD. LET ME KNOW WILL BE CHECKING BACK SOON.
WTF If copyright owners want people to stop doing this then they should lower the F***ing prices of cds and crap!!
down with cds, up with the almighty memory sticks. we can reuse those (always) ya’know?
Raijin said discs would go under long ago.
mothafukers
guys use http://www.btjunkie.org the site is encrypted protected of your identity ( ip ). even from your isp . it is linked to other torrent sites as well . they might of closed the piratebay down , but they will never close all torrent sites down . when one gos one shall apear . you goverment and coprate f**ks will never win .
i would like to say thank you to the piratebay , for providing us with such a good service, for the years it was around .
free stuff for every one rich or poor , lets realine the masses , free movies and music for every one .
R.I.P http://WWW.THEPIRATEBAY.ORG
We may fall now, but we are the internet. We feel no guilt or shame. We are a resilient, underground nation. Kill one of us and another two will rise in their place.
Guys another tip from me that makes it easyer for me to find out info on what free stuff is out there for us to down load ; ie movies , music , games . it also gives you informasion on new products , and news . Check out http://www.rlslog.net .THIS SITE PROFENTS YOU DOWN LOADING SOME MOVIES WITH VIRUSES IN . just copy the name of the movie , then past it in to btjunkie and search there always there , its that easy . i have never had a virus on my comp doing it this way .
pass this info on to every body you no , its time to help the masses ,help each other .
just one more think before i go you people out there nead to watch more documentrys , realy find out what is going on in the world , try to understand each other a little bit more .
Oh My God, This has to be the worst thing to happen to the world since Christ was on the cross.
Fricken crooked Swedish officials, what they were doing wasn’t even illegal.
They were just supplying information that can be used illegally and legally. just read their defense it is flawless if that stupid judge hadn’t been an idiot none of this would have happened.
try in Peru
I love it!!!!
I can’t live without TPB
mininova is just a search engine, but places like that can be used for finding torrents in conjusnction with a tracker such as:
http://openbittorrent.com/
in fact, all of your old pirate bay torrents can be used with the tool on their site to use openbittorrent as the new tracker (it is a tracker ONLY — no searching for torrents).
this is the new wave, and the groundwork has been established by the guys who created tpb. you may even notice that tracker addy in a lot of your tpb torrents, especially recently. use that from now on, and change all of your ones that don’t have it with the following tools:
tool for changing the tracker of just a few torrents is at :
http://torrenteditor.com/
i think this is the link addy for dl a script tool for changing a bunch of these tpb torrents:
http://openbittorrent.com/trackercleaner.php.gz
if it is not, go to openbittorrent.com and there is a hotlink there which will dl it for you.
spread the word.
NOT COOL! you can’t shut the site down. It was just a large file storage place where illegal content could exist. It wasn’t the hosters fault crap was put on it. Dont Leave Us, TPB!
WTF..
now what.. r u gonna start copyrighting junk..!
fuck..!! i already miss TPB..
Where am I suppose to get my porn from now on?
What the FUCK. This was the best site for torrents! D:
well i say bad call because with them it kept hackers from doing stupid stuff now hackers and others will start getting revenge and it wont be good
this sucks. so much balls. well at least yesterday i restored and downloaded photoshop and my antivirus stuff
lol silly government they have no idea how torrents work the pirate bay just is the google for torrent links the torrents still exist morons there still torrent sites you cant stop piracy if you do you stop the interwebs
http://www.mininova.org if you need your torrent fix
If TPB doesn’t work for you in the next few days it’s because your ISP has a sucky DNS. Use OpenDNS instead… http://www.opendns.org
Long live TPB!!!!
it will be back in one week guarenteed.
That is kind of funny. The internet makes billions of dollars a year through ISP’s.
It is not like the 90′s where if you could get free internet only dial up of course.
We as comsumers pay for our internet so it is ours and it has nothing to do of a compainy losing there bussness .
It is like everything else in this world, if You really like something someone some where will figure out a way to charge you for it.
File sharing is a multi-million dollar business, advertisements is where they make there money.So that in return gets us on these sites for free.
It seems the advertisments are not raking in the cash any more like they use to. They have to get there money some how.
So who ownes the internet anyways ? My point exactlly?
this is fucked up…..they need more reply support
Oh by the way .
it is not ileagal to store any file from the net ,isn’t it really a big storage place If so shouldn’t you go after the guy that ownes the internet.
But it is ileagal to sell it to make a profit . Did you ever hear of someone selling you a mp3.
Yes but that is the people that started this in the first place. I mean in a store ,like a music store. Really can you really buy mp3s in a music store on a cd ?
It cannot be said enough: The Pirate Bay is a Search Engine. There are no files hosted on their website and there never have been. You can use Google to find illegal files too. TPB just happens to be a better search engine for torrent trackers than google, and therefore it is a target.
Please bring TPB back!
iso hunt still running
wtf i love this site and i live here in brasil here i use tpb for evertn games programs they have to come back
Great, the day that I finally want to download something from this site, is THE day that it’s shut down.
Stevem
Guess the court in Sweden didn’t buy that argument.
To all
The issue is that the material all you guys want for free is copyrighted and protected by law.
Its someone creation, their work product and you just can’t take it from them because you want to
If you really want to know who brought this to light and started the getting the file sharing sites down was Metallica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica
Moreover for something that most of you think legal, TPB founders sure got hammered at trial.
So they either had terrible lawyers or they were just wrong.
Fuck the powers-that-be. If they want people to stop pirating their products, they need to make their products WORTH THE MONEY!! If record companies would start releasing GOOD music and actually make their albums worth the $25 you pay for them. If movie studios would stop releasing crappy predictable movies. If software companies would bring down their prices. etc. etc. etc.
The fact that this stuff is being pirated is 100% the fault of the companies trying to sell these products. And in the business world, if you can’t make your product sellable, you fail. SO… TO ALL THE COMPANIES COMPLAINING OF THEIR PRODUCTS BEING “STOLEN”: STOP WHINING AND CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS PRACTICES! you obviously don’t know what you’re doing and your business probably deserves to fail! of course, you’ll just get bail-outs from the government, putting everyone except YOU in debt!
Well, my friend and I just toasted to The Pirate Bay, the one and only. Here is the toast
“To The Pirate Bay; a website of outstanding charisma and character. An entry point on the internet for all to access everything, and most importantly, the backbone of torrents, creating a true community for the masses”
I know how to get a torrent of almost anything on the pirate bay from another source, but the pirate bay was a gem. I will drink a shot of Rum on this day after a proper toast to the pirate bay for years to come.
May you all join me in commemorating The Pirate Bay.
How will i go on? I work in the middle east where everything is censored by these insincere puritanical muslim fucks. Now I can’t watch the shows I love.
@Düane
All of this material is being stolen. it is illegal to download off this site. I dont download illegally because its not worth the money, if it wasnt worth the money it wouldnt be worth watching. I download illegally cause I dont feel like paying or I dont have the money. record companies do release good music (the prices are rediculos though) its just that i dont feel like paying for it when i could just get it for free. get your reasons right and dont speak for other people
Düane
$25 for a CD?
You should shop somewhere cheaper.
Funny, all the media is good enough to download and store it on your computer, ipod or itouch, as long as its free.
This $25 argument is so old.
Music now costs $1 a song, you can rent a movie for $2.99 and get online instant delivery.
Henry
Your the first guys whose opinion I respect all day.
You get it for free because you can and you don’t want to pay for it.
I can accept this.
The rest of the excuses and justifications are just ridiculous.
FUCK INTERNET TYRANNY !! BOYCOT ANY AND ALL ASSOCIATIONS AFFILIATED WITH HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS INJUSTICE, DO NOT BY ANY OF THERE MEDIA, THERE TRYING TO MAKE MORE MONEY BY ACTIONS LIKE THIS, INSTEAD LETS MAKE THE SORRY FUCKS PAY !!!!!! sTICK WITH IT, AND LET EM KNOW BY EMAILING THERE WEBSITS AND SPREADING THE WORD. Tell em ” HEY ! ‘ I may have bought some of your greed drivin garbage but since I now have no access to download you trash to check it out to see if I really want it, I will just refrain from doing any business with your dictatorship at all, may you go bankrupt in peace . !!