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The Pirate Bay Is Back Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the have-those-responsible-been-sacked? dept.

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."

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  1. Sucks to be the MPAA... by oberondarksoul · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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    1. Re:Sucks to be the MPAA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't under stand the finger analogy. Please use one involving a car.

  2. The Top ten by yoharryo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice to see an illegal copy of Vista is number one...

    1. Re:The Top ten by Legion303 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "* prances around in free Half-Life 2 T-shirt *"

      Looking at it from another angle, you paid $40 for a shirt. :)

  3. How many.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..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.

  4. Re:Thank you, Sweden! by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, all those gorgeous blonde women are in their 40's. Nowadays, all we have left is chubby girls who look like raccoons.

  5. Re:Location of servers... by thelost · · Score: 5, Funny

    a true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the yard-arm. yarrrr

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  6. Re:MPAA/RIAA press release by Cartzca · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The MPAA has a multi-pronged approach to fighting Internet piracy, which include educating people about the consequences of piracy" Is this going to be the old-school 'piracy == terrorism' line? I hope not; I'm look for a more SouthPark style: 'Here's X's private jet, notice anything? X used to have a Gulfstream 4, but now she's had to sell it and get a Gulfstream 3 because people like you used to download her music for free. The Gulfstream 3 doesn't even have a remote control for its surround sound DVD system. Still think downloading music for free is no big deal?'

  7. Re:MPAA/RIAA press release by fbjon · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's interesting, they compare the popularity of thepiratebay.org (21st in Sweden by Alexa), with CNN.com (125th in Sweden, Alexa). Color me surprised: a swedish site is more popular in sweden than an american site.

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