The Pirate Bay is being taken down!

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

i know totally gay.

i read it on shoutwire an hour or two ago

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...

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

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

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:

Was a popular site too

oh well

use www.torrentspy.com while its still hot!

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Originally Posted by 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:

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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.

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

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.