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The Pirate Bay Is Back Online
Many readers have submitted news that The Pirate Bay is back online, operating for now as "The Police Bay." Writes one anonymous submitter: "Pirate Bay got new hardware, moved the servers abroad and used recent backups. So the only bad side-effect of this police raid is that hundreds of clients of the ISP PRQ still have not got their servers back from the police. When the police did the raid on Wednesday, they took Pirate Bay from Bankgirot's secure server room. Then they also took all the servers in PRQ colocation facility STH3, effectively disabling a lot of small companies. The connection between PRQ and TPB? - Same owners, nothing more, this is beginning to become a huge scandal in Sweden with coverage on TV and all newspapers 4 days in a row."
When can we expect the MPAA/RIAA press release issued the other day to mysteriously disappear from the public record (or at least the org's sites)? Oh and will we see another press release saying the MPAA/RIAA got pwnt?
So soon they crowed victory, so soon will they be humbled. By the looks of things the takedown of the Pirate Bay was less than legal, and now with the 'Bay back online the MPAA must be feeling more than a little upset. Personally I'm of the view that the Pirate Bay was perfectly legal - they didn't carry any copyrighted works themselves, just as Google don't carry the materials they link to. What fun this whole affair will turn out to be...
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
Nice to see an illegal copy of Vista is number one...
God damn it, do you mean that fucking for virginity doesn't work either?
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
..cops does it take to change a light bulb?
50. One to do it and 49 to confiscate every other light bulb in the house as evidence.
Sorry, all those gorgeous blonde women are in their 40's. Nowadays, all we have left is chubby girls who look like raccoons.
Do you have a better way of making more virgins?
(Sorry, can't give proper credit, don't know who came up with it.)
Feele-a shereeng seete-a Zee Purete-a Bey, vheech ves clused doon fullooeeng Vednesdey's reeed by zee Svedeesh puleece-a, oopened egeeen oon Setoordey murneeng under a deefffferent neme-a: Zee Puleece-a Bey.
Zee seete's perffurmunce-a ves steell petchy et loonchteeme-a oon Setoordey, despeete-a beeeng roon frum noo serfers in Hullund effter ell zee Svedeesh iqooeepment ves cunffeesceted. Bork! Bork!
Zee reeed, vheech ves cerreeed oooot et husteeng cumpuneees in Stuckhulm, Fästmunlund und Fästra Götelund tergeted oone-a ooff zee vurld's lergest seetes fur shereeng mooseec, gemes und cumpooter prugremmes.
It ves prumpted by a cumpleeent tu puleece-a frum Unteepuretbyrån, vheech represents zee Svedeesh feelm und mooseec indoostreees' cupyreeght interests. Bork! Bork! Bork!
Un infesteegeshun egeeenst Zee Purete-a Bey hes beee oongueeng fur munths. "Ve-a beleeefe-a thet ve-a veell be-a fuoond nut gooeelty," seeed Fredreek Neeej, oone-a ooff thuse-a roonneeng Zee Purete-a Bey, tu Ixpressee. "Ve-a ere-a gueeng tu cunteenooe-a unteel zee ferdeect cumes. A-yup!"
The changed the old logo adding cannonballs shooting from the pirate ship smashing a hollywood sign. Way to go my proud swedish brothers. I admire your balls! (ehm.. well you get it).
a true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the yard-arm. yarrrr
Promote Charity on Myspace, Show Your Colours!
It's never too early to drink :^)
I love their new logo.
I was fully expecting anti-terror units in all black combat suits, with shotguns pointing, flashbangs going off and stuff. But nooo. Also no ninjas cutting peoples' heads off, RoboCops or a horde of battle monkeys. All very boring scenery.
/. frontpage story as soon as the Pirate Bay has a torrent of the raid video online.
By the way, PLEASE make a
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
Software pirates don't have guns.
This wouldn't have happened if those network admins were armed.
paintball
honeypot
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
well it was online... till we slashdotted it.
believing the big bang requires a certain amount of supernatural faith
Nice feral apostrophe, by the way. Haven't seen one of those for a while.
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.
Come in the summer, you can stay at me + my girlfriends place in our guestroom. Hook up to our 10mbit LAN connection (100mbit in November) and just chill. No problem.
What some slashdotters won't do to brag over the fact that they have girlfriends...
Quickly, citizens!
The Pirates have gone global this time. They can change their port with the tidal waves of mind crimes and its nefarious actions.
It's not time to save on resources. The criminals can move between countries in a matter of days.
We need the help of a new super-hero spotted in Canada previous week! Only him can track down the Pirates and sunk their ship of infringments around the Earth.
Support the fantasy! Don't let our dreams die!
Captain Copyright, our prays are with you. Save us from the Pirates!
Buy a Nintendo DS Lite
In another case of poor journalism, the above post mistakes a fact of utmost importance.
Fortunately, we here at FoxDot news have the REAL story. As Sweden's police stood up for the rights of media artists and fans worldwide, defending all civilized nations from the threat of terrorism funded by..er.. free music and movie downloads, the unthinkable was happening.
The suspect, whose name has not been released on his way to Guantanomo Bay, was not eating a "peanut butter and jelly sandwich."
We here at FoxDot are here to tell you:
It was a fluffernutter.
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?
24 and Lost won't exist? YES! YES! YESSSS!
*Starts pirating in earnest*
God damn it, do you mean that fucking for virginity doesn't work either?
Actually, I am pleased to inform you that fucking is in fact how all virgins throughout all of history were produced. Stay the course!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
That'll do for Shlashdotters.
That is all.
"Just because a lot of people do it doesn't make it legal, moral or right."
Ummm... try telling that to any other group that has been harrassed by stupid laws. Why don't you start with homosexuals? 55's the limit.
You must've been The Little Lemming That Could. Standing at the edge of the precipice while your friends were getting laid.
Pull my finger for my public key.
"how many Swedish police officers does it take to screw in a lightbulb"
Two - but how do you get them in there?
No kidding. Much more effective camo in that terrain would be a Sun microsystems hat and a half-life 2 t-shirt. And don't forget the sweat pants! He'd be nearly invisible!
today is spelling optional day.
there is consensus that child porn distribution on the internet is a much more severe crime than copyright infringement of anything.
What about copyright infringment of child porn?
"Be seeing you..."
Too much Oblivion I see
Or 'The Prisoner', of course.
It's always sad when kids mistake a reference to a reference for a reference to an original.
It's like, bad pointer arithmatic, or something.
I never said I never broke copyright law. But I don't kid myself about it when I do it. Sometimes I'm doing it for the right reasons, sometimes I'm not. But I don't lie to myself about it.
You made the argument about being similar to used bookstores to bolster your argument. It is useless as an argument, because of the reasons I point out. If used bookstores duplicated books and sold them, then it'd be a useful argument, they would indeed be similar.
Your hypothetical situation does indeed arise. I know people who have gotten back episodes that way and then began to watch the show. However, regardless of whether it helps the company or not, it's illegal, it's stealing their content. If the company is smart enough to allow you to view back episodes to get caught up, that's great. If the company doesn't do it, it isn't up to you to change their business model.
It is their right to hold on to their stuff so tight that they lose gobs of money. You don't get to remold their goals because you think you know better, even when actually you do know better.
Again, just like a non-duplicatable object, if you don't like how they sell it, you are free not to buy it. You aren't free to rip it off.
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