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The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly

Posted by Soulskill on from the arrr-me-hearties dept.

New submitter cbiltcliffe writes: About a month ago, we discussed news that the Pirate Bay domain name was back online. This story mentioned a timer, which supposedly showed the time since the police raid. I didn't notice at the time, but a more recent check showed this counter was counting down, not up, with a time set to reach zero at the end of January. Sometime around a week ago, the waving pirate flag video changed to a graphic of an orange phoenix, and a disabled search box showed up. I've been watching the site since, and now, about 12 hours before the timer was to reach zero, the site is back up, complete with searches.

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  1. Countdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is there going to be a countdown until it's taken back down? FBI.gov maybe?

  2. Re:Problems with the staff by BronsCon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah... staff locked out? Seems fishy, almost as though LEOs took over the domain and brought the site back up. Someone brew some tea, I think there's a pot of honey around here somewhere.

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  3. Nice nice.... by Kekke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now all the officials who where involved in that raid, can start searching again via PB.
    No need to use those thousands of others torrent search sites that are available.

    Good for them.
    I hope they feel like winners now.

  4. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid by Marginal+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do we know it's legit?

    Hey, it's The Pirate Bay - what's not to be legit?

  5. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid by kimvette · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it legitimately illegitimate?

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  6. Re: Problems with the staff by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    there is a Flash exploit that STILL isn't patched, that only requires a user to visit a site with a bit of compromised embedded flash content like a banner ad, and BOOM, owned. You don't even have to click a link, just visit a domain hosting the content on a page.

    I notice your account was created yesterday. Please let me be the first to welcome to you Slashdot.

    Maybe you could tell us a little bit about yourself, by way of introduction. Like maybe your badge number.

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  7. Re: Problems with the staff by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot. Where a simple "edit" button is too much to ask.

    Sorry about the typos in my comment above, it won't happne agian.

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