The Pirate Bay is being taken down!

[SomeGuy]

I dont think this has been posted on here yet...and Im sure we have lots of Torrent users here...

In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.

According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.

The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.

The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.
--form www.thepiratebay.com -- thats their release...

Heres the MPAA's press release on the matter... http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_05_31.pdf

[enthused]

i know totally gay.

i read it on shoutwire an hour or two ago

[SomeGuy]

I was going to download some missed episodes of "my name is earl" earlier...and now they have that message up...
still like to use demonoid and torrentspy though...

[bedake]

Bad news for torrents, good thing i only use private trackers

[king kong bong]

nooooooooooooooooo i just found out about that site recently. my wrestling noooooooooooooooooooo. o well other torrents out there.

[likemclever]

sorry I'm confused. :confused: :confused: :confused:

Is this a file sharing program. Like napster or whatever. I've never heard of it. :upsidedow :question:

[HazardousToking]

Was a popular site too

oh well

use www.torrentspy.com while its still hot!

[insanity]

sorry I'm confused. :confused: :confused: :confused:

Is this a file sharing program. Like napster or whatever. I've never heard of it. :upsidedow :question:

Bittorent is a technology that is really complicated, but basically people download small files that tracks (and coordinates) the download of full files. Websites like TPB host these tracker files on thier servers, but do not host the actual files they represent. People create tracker files and then individually host the actual thing that is linked to the tracker file. After a time, people will begin to download and 'seed' (host) the file. After a while a network is created where people seed and download at the same time. Ultimately this makes Bittorent really hard to take down because the pirated files exsist everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

[HazardousToking]

You have a file, you post it up on a server, people start downloading it, each person that downloads has to spare some bandwidth to upload pieces of the file(hence file sharing) Once you get 400-500 people all sharing, speeds get cranked up and you can download large files pretty quickly on a consistent basis(unlike most file sharing)


Thats the jist of it I suppose

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

Wtf. First they took down supernova thing which was all i used. Now they're taking down fucking pirate bay? Fucks sake :(

Then again, i dont really download games anymore. and to get music or movies or programs i use limewire... which will proberly be brought down soon as well.

[redandcracked1888]

i use pirate bay all the time with bitlord the running software for it,i didnt know as i'm currently downloading from 2torrents,e-donkeyand fulldls.com,i'm just checking the now,totally bollocks the swedish fuck-pigs,i like piratebay.org asit one of the first torrents i found for the artic monkeys album,and since then i use it all the time for porn,i always thought it was a p2p site and i was basically borrowing from another user then if i liked the song/film i go out and buy it,what is it with the government i take it they like us wasting our money on shite,fuck them the torrents will live on,the fuckers will never stop the downloadingnever as theres just 2 many sites to block and theres no way they'll block 2torrents or edonkey lol going to go the new xmen3 film has just finished hope its good then i'll go to the pictures then buy it on dvd c choice mutha fuckers fuck it i think i'll have a j as well

[Oli]

Pirate bay'll be back, take a look on the site if you're not too paranoid of your ip being logged.

[Hollandica]

FUCK!!!! Every goddamned time they (ze pigs) take down another of the best torrent sites available! I use pirate bay every day, they are tearing apart my daily routine!!!!

And yeah I guess I'll have to use torrentspy now but I don't like it half as much as pirate bay.

[SomeGuy]

Awesome! They now have this message at the top of the letter "SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO"

I knew they would be back...but they will probaly still keep getting trouble from the swedish govt....

[bedake]

HOLY GROOVY MONKEY!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5041848.stm


Hackers hit Swedish police site
Logo of The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay site says it plans to be up again shortly
Cyber vandals have attacked the website of the Swedish police, forcing it to shut down.

Police said the site was taken offline after it was overloaded by net data.

The attack came a day after the police raided several locations linked to a website accused of directing users to pirated films, music and software.

ThePirateBay.org had described itself as the largest search index for BitTorrent, a system used for sharing large files over the internet.

The entertainment industry welcomed the action against a site it argued was a major source of music and film piracy.

Raids and arrests

Swedish police are investigating the so-called denial of service attack against the website of the national police.

Such attacks are designed to overload a server by bombarding it with data.

It is not clear whether the attack is linked to the police action against The Pirate Bay.

On Wednesday, officers raided 10 locations across the country, confiscating the computers and detaining three men suspected of violating copyright laws.

The three have since been released, but a spokesman said they could still face charges.

Legal questions

The people behind The Pirate Bay argued they were not breaking the law.

They maintain that the site's function was to direct users towards the files that they search for and manage the uploads and downloads. The website itself did not hold any copyright files.

The legality of the website has not been tested in Swedish courts.

The site has been offline since Wednesday, with a statement on its homepage saying that it planned to be up and running again within a few days.

The Pirate Bay became a dominant player in tracking BitTorrent files when another search index, SuprNova.org, met its demise in late 2004.

SuprNova.org, shut down after a relentless campaign by the entertainment industry to close its operations.



PWNED

[king kong bong]

^^^^^^^^
ahahahahahhaa
soon thats gonna be me, im learnin programming....

[bedake]

^^^^^^^^
ahahahahahhaa
soon thats gonna be me, im learnin programming....

LOL, dont go to jail. DDOS attacks are easy as pie, just dont get caught

[bedake]

its back up