The Pirate Bay offline: ‘Something is broken’
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Pirate Bay is down, for whatever reason.
Yesterday afternoon reports started coming in that it was inaccessible, and it’s still offline at 4:50 am Pacific.
“Something is broken, we are working on it, check back in a little while! – is the message.
Yesterday, we noticed some queries were being answered, and some weren’t. The message was the system was over-loaded and, “try again in a few seconds”.
Now, with the site’s (former?) owners demanding Dutch authorities rethink a ban they’ve imposed in Holland, and negotiations apparently continuing between Global Gaming Factory (the wanna-be new owner) and a least one of the Big 4 labels, TPB is definitely offline.
Is this a genuine technical hitch, or is it in some way related to the supposed sale of the site to GGF and its efforts to get on the good side of the Korporate Kopyright Klans?
Meanwhile, “”Ok, we have some pwr FAIL. It’s not BREIN FAIL,” promises the message.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
rethink a ban – The Pirate Bay Dutch retrial, August 10, 2009
wanna-be new owner – Pirate Bay: hooking up with Big 4 label?, August 10, 2009
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August 11th, 2009 at 9:45 am
EZTV was knocked out too for a while. Must be living on the same island
August 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Still down still no explanation
August 11th, 2009 at 11:18 am
still down…still dont care
August 11th, 2009 at 11:35 am
10:45 onAug 11….firfox cant find it! It could be that the ship has finally been sunk!
Not sure I really care!
August 11th, 2009 at 11:56 am
WHOIS records show Spain as country of origin
August 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
The Net isn’t revolution. It’s evolution.
Whenever a site such as TPB goes down for whatever reason, if something doesn’ t already exist to take its place, something new quickly evolves.
And the auld grey heads who rule the Korporate Kopyright Klans finger their beards and become even more confused.
Cheers!
August 11th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
wow , i will be alive when the legendary SWEDISH website thepiratebay.org goes down.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
fyi: eztv is back online.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
The TPB site may not be responding to everyone, but none of the TPB trackers have gone offline. All torrents are still moving.
August 11th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
TPB was a good site, it was one of the better ones. lets hope its just a glitch.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
pirate bay is back online.
BayImg is NOT back online.
BayWords is NOT back online.