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?

[muphin]

Is the data you are downloading saved to the PB servers? no
only the .torrent files (which is legal) shows a link to the tracker which hosts the data that shows the peers, the people who HAVE all or part of the files stored, they are just acting like an ISP, connecting the dots.
the infringing content is not physically on their servers not does the data being transferred pass through their servers, just like google links to bad sites, they arent responsible for the content within those sites.

Alternate Method of Accesing TPB

[Idetuxs]

As is a DNS problem just tupe TPB's ip directly http 194.71.107.80 /81/82/83. Works like charm.

Pretty useful info here: http://proxybay.info/alternate-methods.html

Re:TPB trackers down for days

[The Mighty Buzzard]

Magnet links do not NEED trackers and tpb hasn't run its own trackers in quite a while. Your issue is something else.

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.

What I don't get.

[MadMaverick9]

They've had the name since 2011 and suddenly today it's a problem?

Domain Information
Query: thepiratebay.gl
Status: Suspended
Created: 16 Mar 2011
Modified: 10 Apr 2013
Expires: 16 Mar 2015

Looks to me like somebody exerted pressure onto somebody else. Same as in 2006 when the US threatened Sweden with trade sanctions if they wouldn't do something about TPB.

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.

Re:Another resolution layer?

[maxwell demon]

You're forgetting that the term "piracy" has been used to describe copyright violation for over 400 years. [citation required]

Yes?

From Wikipedia:

The practice of labelling the infringement of exclusive rights in creative works as "piracy" predates statutory copyright law. Prior to the Statute of Anne in 1710, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labelled pirates as early as 1603.[2]

1603 is 410 years ago, thus it's over 400 years.

Re:What were they thinking?

[xenobyte]

Seriously! Greenland is still an autonomous country, they should be able to make that decision, not a domain name broker.

Not quite... Greenland is part of Denmark but has extended 'home rule'. It is independent enough to have it's own legal system, but the it is the danish Police that does the police work.

The ruling from the danish "Fogedretten" regarding TPB (forcing the ISPs to DNS-block TPB) has no validity in Greenland and there has been no other legal precent regarding torrents or similar in Greenland. It is therefore not illegal to run a torrent tracker in Greenland and thus it is not "using the .gl domains for illegal purposes". I recommend that TPB sues the domain provider in Greenland in order to get the domains restored.