New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended

The Pirate Bay switched to two Greenland-based domains Tuesday morning but it looks like the party is already over. The company responsible for .GL TLD registrations said they would not allow the domains to be put to illegal use. “Tele-Post has today decided to block access to two domains operated by file-sharing network The Pirate Bay,” the company said. According to TorrentFreak: "Queries to the .GL domain registry now confirm that both the domains in question have been officially suspended."

Comments

Re:Another resolution layer?

[muphin]

Or take them to the courts, as the website isnt illegal, its not like child porn or anything... its a search engine... no content is hosted, get a precedent set?
or find a country with better laws, dont just give up and move on.

Re:Another resolution layer?

[Ralph Spoilsport]

I agree. I tihnk one of the biggest problems with TPB is its irony and intellectual dishonesty. File sharing is file sharing. CALL IT FILE SHARING YOU STUPID FUCKS. It is not Piracy. Piracy is a naval thing where people from one boat invade another, rape the women, then kill everyone, take anything of value and then set the boat on fire and send it and anyone left alive down to Davy Jone's Locker (and I ain't talkin' about David Bowie or the singer from the Monkees). THAT is Piracy. Some 12 year old in his mom's basement sharing files of crappy mp3s by Katy Perry is NOT A PIRATE. He is sharing files. He cares enough about the stuff that he wants to share it. Sharing is an act of generosity and and affiliation. When TPB and the Pirate Party took a page from the LGBT movement and adopted epithets as their badge, they made a critical fumble, as the ability to philosophically shift to a position of genrosity and giving is basically impossible when you've taken on such a deeply violent and ugly title as Pirate.

So, yes, they need to come up with a positive name that gets at the heart of the matter, that sharing is caring, and digital data is fundamentally different in nature from analogue.

Re:TPB trackers down for days

[The Mighty Buzzard]

Scuse me, that magnet link? It does not need trackers, it supplies them. Even they are not necessary if you have a client that supports DHT. Every single one of those (non-tpb) trackers could be down and the link would still function fine. Of course DHT has only been built into every major client for several years now, so why should that be assumed, eh?

Re:Not surprising.

[MadMaverick9]

And do you really believe that this kind of behavior by the "entertainment" industry is going to make me buy more of their crap?

Keep dreaming ...

If I buy something then I decide where and how I will use it. Not you, not the "entertainment" industry can and should decide and control what I can or can not do with the stuff I paid money for. Get it?

And after I bought the movie or music, stop treating me like a damn criminal with your stupid FBI messages about piracy.

But No - you have to control each and every aspect of your crap with drm, region code and other technology crap.

Nowadays copyright and "intellectual" property is one big mechanism to control what users can or can not do. And I will not participate in that!

Until things change, piracy will not go away.

Re:Another resolution layer?

[Anonymous Coward]

If they were truly deprived of their rights, they would have no basis to sue anyone. But they're not truly deprived of any rights, now are they?

That said, I'm of the opinion that no one is entitled to a government-enforced monopoly, and saying otherwise is anti-freedom.

you may as well be advocating copyright abolition.

I am.