The Pirate Bay back online
p2p news / p2pnet: That fierce grinding sound you hear is the MPAA’s Dan Glickman knashing his teeth over in LaLa Land.
“Only torrent files are saved at the server. That means no copyrighted and/or illegal material are stored by us. It is therefore not possible to hold the people behind The Pirate Bay responsible for the material that is being spread using the tracker. Any complaints from copyright and/or lobby organizations will be ridiculed and published at the site.
“The Pirate Bay was started by the Swedish anti copyright organization Piratbyran in the late 2003, but is since October 2004 separated and run by dedicated individuals.”
That’s the disclaimer on The Pirate Bay site and Yes, it’s back online, as promised, Hollywood’s blatant efforts to use the Swedish police force to stomp it notwithstanding.
The tool used was the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), headed up by Glickman. But it’s possible The Persuader, Dean Garfield, was significantly involved in the attempt to shut TPB down. His associations with Sweden are many.
The candid pix (note the handcuffs in the clip on the upper right) are from a YouTube feature pointed out by a p2pnet reader.
Garfield’s most recent claim to fame came when it was revealed he’d bribed a hacker to lift 
confidential data from Torrentspy.com.
TPB has been offline for a couple of days but its organizers had promised it would be but a brief hiatus.
In other news, the BBC revealed that hackers had forced the Swedish police site offline but, “It is not clear whether the attack is linked to the police action against The Pirate Bay,” said the Beeb.
“Using the site is free of charge, but since running it costs money, donations are very much appreciated,” says TPB.
p2pnet is in exactly the same boat, especially since we’re now being sued not by the corporate entertainment cartels but, perversely, by Kazaa owner Sharman Networks, which claims to be on the side of the p2p community.
Digg this story.
Also See:
as promised – Return of the Pirate Bay, June 1, 2006
The Persuader – MPAA hacked Torrentspy, May 25, 2006
are many – Swedish anti-p2p site hacked: more, March 15, 2005
same boat – Free speech in Canada, June 2, 2006
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June 3rd, 2006 at 3:11 pm
…that didn’t take long! nice!
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:56 pm
From a brief inspection, it looks like most all the torrents and discussions and everything (including recently added stuff) is still there. But their search engine is still down.
It gives the error message “no hits due to politics.” But it looks like just about all the torrents are still there and you can find them if you use another search engine and add: site:thepiratebay.org
So just a minor inconvenience and they should have it running again soon if they got the site up this quickly
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:17 pm
if you look even closer at the legal threats section you will find most of thier responses are gone. they are replaced with a 404 error
“404 Not found”
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:46 pm
The “site” appears to be back up, BUT…. this writer has attempted, 3 different times to download 3 different torrent-files, and NONE were downloadable; 404′s and all that sort of thing.
Imho, it would have been _far_-better had PirateBay held off for a little bit longer, to enable the downloading of its’ torrent files.
June 4th, 2006 at 12:29 am
dont steal programming
June 4th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
-= Disclaimer: This is just my opinion. =-
- As such I’m NOT suggesting any comment -
- following this preface is true. In fact -
- I live in a fairy-tale and nothing I -
- say should be taken seriously. -
When something is “Stolen”, someone is deprived of it.
Example someone “Steals” my pencil, I no longer have it,
I have been deprived of it’s use. Televeision, Cable
programming is broadcast to many people, in many locations
all at once, WITHOUT the original program being lost to the
owner. VCR’s STILL make copies of such programming, an act
which has ALREADY been legal for a VERY long time. a TiVO is
very simply a VCR that uses a disk drive intead of a tape.
Different form, same function, no theft. Fair use rights allow
recording for personal use.
Now, lets look at something else ….
When broadcast Television was the only thing available, the
ONLY thing customers paid for was a Television set. Why ??
Broadcasters used commercials. Advertisers funded their
endeavors. This worked out REALLY well for broadcasters AND
customers. Then Cable TV came along. In theory, by PAYING for
the privildge, you got COMMERCIAL FREE shows. HMM, there are
a lot of commercials on cable TV now, aren’t there ?
Now, cable and sattellite not only get paid by consumers, but
get revenue through advertisers. Double funding.
AS far as the staff and employees go …
They are paid for their work. The broadcast gets aired 500 times
but those involved in it’s creation still get paid .. once.
Actors may get rebroadcast and royalty rights, but the joe blows
that do the grunt work don’t, no matter how many times a
show is broadcast. So, whether a show is copied via TiVo or
broadcast 1000 times, those people never get another dime
anyway. Yet, the Actors and the studios that hold the “rights”
to the show get a piece of ALL those broadcasts. You, know,
the folks that whine about going broke while driving their Lexus
around.
Tell me, who is stealing from whom ??
June 4th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
unfortunately you haven’t written the laws the govern society, corporations and out of touch people have done that. It’s up to us, the regular plebes, to influence the process, have our voice heard and be recognized as a group who is no longer passive in it’s subjugation by those who think they know best. The very medium that has caused this upheaval in the status quo of consumerism is also the medium that facilitates our voices being heard and recognized. That is also the reason why the corporations (and government(s) ie the US) are so desperatley trying to put the genie back in the bottle…their outlook is that the control they have enjoyed for so long, without challenge, is slipping from their grasp (watch a documentary called ‘The Century of the Self’ http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/531196/DOCUMENTARY_BBC_The_Century_of_the_Self_MUST_SEE or The Politics of Fear http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?h=A481236427624D34A01A1E07EE1C3415&query=The+Politics+of+Fear&submit.x=5&submit.y=8).
Just look at the attempts to destroy net neutrality for a good example of how the internet and this medium of protest and communication is under assault. To ‘control’ the internet and destroy its level-playing field by tipping the balance back to the ‘elites’ will produce a situation where dissension, whether political or consumer based (although after watching Century of the Self the line between the two is blurred or non-existent), is stifled and we’ll all be worse off for it, but eventually through this ‘restructuring’ we’ll never even know the difference or what we’ve been deprived of. We will once again be the irrational subjects of a power structure who thinks they know best.
rant done
TT