Adrian Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Great cheers of jubilee echoed in the entertainment Halls of Justice yesterday, confident of their victory against the great Satan, ThePirateBay.org. ThePirateBay.org, as many are aware, was perhaps the largest BitTorrent tracker in history. Although it was regarded as little more than a pillar of piracy by the entertainment industry, it provided a simple avenue and interface for artists to release creative commons work to the P2P crowd. This world came crumbling down on May 31, 2006. Seemingly immune from copyright infringement prosecution in their native Sweden, police from the National Crime Unit executed raids against the Internet Service Provider Rex|Port 80 and web host PRQ. After the successful execution of the raids, the entertainment industry?s media machines went into high gearThe MPA (Motion Picture Association) claimed Swedish Authorities had ?sunk the Pirate Bay.? ? The IFPI (International Federation and Phonographic Industry) also clamored the raids, stating ?This is a very good development for the Swedish music industry and for the real innovators and entrepreneurs who are trying to build a legal online digital business.? Antipiratbyr?n, the Swedish anti-piracy bureau, also expressed its satisfaction after a long string of copyright enforcement impotence. So now that ThePirateBay.org is offline, the celebration can go into high ge>Remember we?re dealing with file-sharing, the ubiquitous hydra that simply cannot die no matter how many press releases you throw at itrow at it. If you destroy one file-sharing network, another will take its place. Remove ten BitTorrent indexing sites, 20 more will pick up the slack. ThePirateBay.org is no different, but in holding true to their nature as defiant to the entertainment industry, this BitTorrent tracker and indexer is scheduled to return with>Although all tracking and indexing abilities are currently offline, ThePirateBay.org domain is still functioning. For the last 36 hours, it has been providing various updates on the raids and status of its administration. And true to their nature as being defiant in the face of the entertainment industry, ThePirateBay.org?s days are far from overr from over. In large, bold text, the following text is scrolled mid-screen: ?SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITH>Yesterday, ThePirateBay.org spokesperson ?brokep? informed Slyck.com ?we are moving it to another country if necessary.? It appears ThePirateBay.org is making good on this promise.g good on this promise. Carl Lundstr?m, employee of Rix|Port80 told Slyck.com ?As I take it, they have bought new servers, installed back-ups and are already up and running tests in at least one foreign server centre.? It seems once again the entertainment industry is about to shoot itself in the foot, unable to stop the global spread of file-sharing. Considering the speed in which ThePirateBay.org is scheduling its return, (which requires a substantial amount of logistics, organization, leadership, and not to mention equipment), it would appear they were well prepared for this event. The same cannot be said about the entertainment industry. Source: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1204 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0m8er Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 good news :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baptist Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 i knew that allready :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3thal Veteran Posted June 1, 2006 Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2006 I wonder how the MPA feels about this :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viciv Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 great news. good luck to them:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebOrbiter Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I wonder how the MPA feels about this :| ****ed. Who cares? :sleep: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Awsome :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+.Vamp Subscriber² Posted June 1, 2006 Subscriber² Share Posted June 1, 2006 Good luck to them indeed :) Hope all works out well for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duntkno Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 hey thats great, gooood too seee pple fighting the system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Cool :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted June 1, 2006 Veteran Share Posted June 1, 2006 Oh man these guys are crazy. It's great :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xantheus Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Sweet news :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecableguy Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 ThePirateBay guys are so cool. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Wow I didn't think it would be this quick! Thumbs up to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echilon Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 It's nice to see they're trying to fight back, but they'll probably end up like suprnova. The police/MPAA/RIAA can never totally destroy bittorrent, no matter how much they'd like to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin001 Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I startin to love piratebay more and more ahahah there attitude is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lieb39 Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Makes me feel all tingly inside.. OK, not really. But props to them - I'm glad the organisation has a better response time than most companies - let alone governments, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy0 Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 'Tis great news. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 they should setup in international waters where no legislation exisists no authority can do anything there because no copyright laws exsist there :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PT 13 Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 LOL great news (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomnut Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 done well (Y) they should just move to russian hosted servers, you can do the feck what you like there ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Oh man these guys are crazy. It's great :) It's definitely exciting seeing them practically take on the MPAA/RIAA, and to have it planned all along is excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 haha. excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurav Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 kudos to TPB! they rock...wonder which countrythey're operating in now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scirwode Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 ThePirateBay.org is scheduling its return, (which requires a substantial amount of logistics, organization, leadership, and not to mention equipment), it would appear they were well prepared for this event. The same cannot be said about the entertainment industry. You know, that made me laugh :laugh: . PSG22? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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