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New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-off-my-domain dept.

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."

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  1. Alternate Method of Accesing TPB by Idetuxs · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  2. Re:TPB trackers down for days by The+Mighty+Buzzard · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  3. Re:Another resolution layer? by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.

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  4. Re:TPB trackers down for days by The+Mighty+Buzzard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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  5. Re:Another resolution layer? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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