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Pirates of the Caribbean: the Pirate Bay Moves To Island of Sint Maarten
New submitter coolnumbr12 writes "For the second time in a week, The Pirate Bay has found a new home for its popular torrent website. A complaint issued Tuesday by Swedish prosecutors threated the Icelandic domain, forcing the file-sharing pirates to take harbor in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with a new .sx domain name. 'Control of the island, which has just 78,000 residents, is split between France and the Netherlands. Around 41,000 live on the Dutch side and 37,000 on the French. ... Even if the court grants the prosecutor’s request it remains to be seen how effective any seizures will be. Time and again the BitTorrent site has responded by relocating to new domains.'"
lots of practice, and the systems are designed to move.
Is they hop around the world with almost no downtime at all.
Even the best sites that we PAY for can barely manage to do simple upgrades and changes and say the same..
The only thing that moved, is where it's domain name is at. the servers are in the "cloud" they don't need to move, and if they did, they can do it no problem. But all this is just about domain name changes.
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Why bother? We already have pirate bay proxies: http://proxybay.info/
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Amen to that. That's exactly what happened to Wikileaks and the financial blockade forced by the USA government. A little protection racket talk against Visa and Mastercard ("nice little business and cash flow you've got there. You wouldn't want to forfeit all of it by continuing to provide processing and money access to some punks like wikileaks, then, would ya?") and suddenly there was no way for Wikileaks to get any donations from anyone. You are so right about corrupt governments. Sad but true.
Just a domain change (.sx), presumably. A new domain can be registered and active within afew minutes.
Downtime is usually due to a server/script issue, not propagation, in my experiences...but is that a bad sign?!
That's because their website isn't http://www.piratebay.sx/
Their websit is http://thepiratebay.sx/ -- note the presence of "the" in the name.
TPB does have a decent amount of legit content, and it's called a "BitTorrent site" because of the BitTorrent protocol. Similarly, sites that have 'gifs' in their name are not related to Compuserve.
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