Slashdot Mirror
Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With the main Pirate Bay website experiencing DNS issues, downtime and uncertainty about both the lawsuits and potential sale to GGF, a Pirate Bay clone has already gone online. True to their principles, someone at TPB put up a torrent with a 21.3 GB copy of the site as it exists today. And now that archive is alive, at BTArena.net. Linus' old adage about backing up everything by putting it on FTP and letting the world mirror it may need to be updated. Torrents are much more efficient." "Downtime" may be a nice word for it; reader Underholdning writes "The Register has a story about a Swedish court ordering ISPs to disconnect The Pirate Bay or face a massive daily fine. The reason for the shutdown was an upcoming civil lawsuit by copyright holders. As usual, Torrentfreak has an updated story. It seems like the takedown until now has been successful." Believe what you will; the site itself says they'll be back up "in a few hours."
Damn! I'd like the t-shirt but "millions of dollars" seems like a little overpriced.
Unless it's signed by the admins, of course.
The years thing was because they send them by standard mail?
Like iTunes?
it's easy as pie to take the TPB site code and turn it into 'art':
Step 1) RAR the whole thing, break it down into, say, 50MB files
Step 2) View those files in Notepad, which you are running from the copy of Windows XP that you downloaded last week from TPB
Step 3) Copy the ASCII text into a new image in the copy of Photoshop that you downloaded three months ago from TPB
Step 4) Apply some filters, gradients, throw in some flames and fractals at random, maybe a lens flare or two
Step 5) Be sure not to add too much crap to it, so that it can be OCR'ed later
Step 6) Save as ThePirateBaySiteRipPart1of4200.rar.JPG and post it somewhere
And you're done!
Maybe they can't shut it down, but it is hillarous that someone pirated The Pirate Bay.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
I herd you like torrents, so I put a torrent in your torrent so you can leech while you leech...
Which begs the question - who are these ignorant twats?
"But this one goes to 11!"
YARRRR!!!