RIP The Pirate Bay

[Nicolai]

31/05/2006 - Never forget.

[sheek]

[Saint_Proverbius]

pwn3d.
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[oherror]

meh it should be back up the swed poilce broke alot ofthier laws doing that raid. pirate bay is legal in sweden....i say some one bribed the police.....
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[Whipporowill]

Pirate Bay is just stupid, taking responsibility for stuff like that is like painting a target on your forehead. From what I gather this wasn't peer to peer rather than actually hosting a server filled with illegal material? P2P 4 Liiife...
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[copx]

Just another day in the corporate republic.

[LaDoushe]

Stop me if I am breaking the rulz here, but could someone recommend a good replacement for the Pirate Bay? I think it was nic that recommended Empornium, and that rocks for porn, but I need something as good as that for everything else. A man cannot live on porn alone...

[Higher Game]

Good riddance.

[Oarfish]

Torrent spy or USENET via Easynews if you have good broadband.

[Drakron]

They will find nothing because Pirate's Bay only hosts torrent files and those are just for tracking, on thenselves they do not contain any copywrited material.

[Nicolai]

Music:
Oink.me.uk
Filemp3

General purpose:
Demonoid
Mininova
Norbits
TorrentBytes
Filelist

Porn:
PureTNA
Empornium
Fileporn


And so on

[obediah]

http://isohunt.com/

[oherror]

[Drakron]

But the problem is The Pirate's Bay was used for a lot of tracking by other sites, such as TorrentSpy.

With the severs gone so goes the tracking of many Torrent files, of course when you have multi-tracking its not that much of a issue ...

[Higher Game]

www.teletorrents.org

This one's great.

[Frau Bishop]

http://www.mininova.org/

edit:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-piratebay-is-down-raided-by-the-swedish-police/

"A final note: due to all these struggles, we might experience some downtime. One of the reasons is that more users visit Mininova now that TPB is down. We try to place an extra server as soon as possible."



MPAA goes Egypt.


Oh... and.. lol...
One Month of Torrents is Worth More Than The GDP of France
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[glasnost]

Tragedy!

They were good people; I admired their total refusal to be intimidated by thuggish lawyers. And I was just thinking about buying a shirt from them the other day, too.

It's still my hope that militant advocates of the ideology of 'intellectual property' will eventually die out (HAY Orrin Hatch)--younger generations, immersed in trading and technology, will go on to inherit the decision making apparatus, bringing to an end some of the nastier, byzantine applications of copyright law. Or perhaps abandon it all together.

I can hope, anyway. Then again, you see some kids proudly declaring their hatred of 'pirates', which is always a little sad to hear. There are more life-affirming partylines to parrot than profit protection.

[Vault Dweller]

[glasnost]

Well, if your only reason to create is to make money, then I doubt you have much of any 'worth' to give to me, anyway. Writers will write because they must. it's an outlet for their creative impulse, likewise for other kinds of artists. Other things are secondary.

And, if profits are of such paramount importance, why isn't every 'artist' up in arms about this kind of thing ('piracy', filesharing, etc.)? Many are not.

For the record, I'm not saying 'down with money'. I don't like the term 'intellectual property' because I feel it devalues (haha) what I do, and what the people I admire do. Which has nothing to do with products and profits, and everything to do with self-expression. Calling a great novel or game a piece of 'content' is a very ugly way of looking at things. It's a worldview that only sees things in terms of marketablity (in the broader sense), and never as ends in themselves.

Second, I'm against laws that are used to support/enforce purely artifiical restrictions on people (regionalized media players, software patents, digital duplication limitations, etc). These do not benefit anyone but people whose primary motivation seems to be the maximization of their wealth (and the strangulation of any potential competition), at the expense of everyone else. How is that a good thing?

[obediah]

[MountainWest]

From the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (roughly translated):
When The Pirate Bay was closed at 12.58 this wednesday the internet traffic went down with 20%, according to statistics from Netnod, IDG writes.

Now thats a bit of traffic...

But I'm with Vault Dweller on this one, even though I download music on a regular basis. Fuck, I know I'm breaking the law. If the police come knocking on my door I won't cry nazi, thats just silly. It's stealing and in most cases distrubution of stolen goods, no more no less.

Oh, and welcome to me.

[Vault Dweller]

[Vault Dweller]

[Elwro]

Sheesh people, just use eMule. Anything that uses torrents is inferior.
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[Surlent]

I hope those Pirate Bay guys make comeback to the scene. They got some balls to show off on their webpage how much letters they have had from different companies claiming rights and like they don't give a shit. Their answers were hilarious to boot. And even if they don't come back, some else site will eventually replace them and become famous..... and get more attention from authorities. It's a never ending circle.