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Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains

Posted by timothy on from the grand-mal dept.

The Pirate Bay will probably never be the darling of any government; we've seen various Pirate Bay domains cracked down on, and the arrests of site founders. An anonymous reader writes now with the news reported this morning by TorrentFreak that: the Stockholm District Court has ordered two key domains owned by The Pirate Bay to be seized. While the ruling means that the site will lose its famous ThePirateBay.se domain, don't expect the site to simply disappear. TPB informs TorrentFreak that they have plenty more domains left in store. From the point of view of the down-crackers, It's a hard problem, particularly when it's easy for people to spin up their own instances of the site.

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  1. Oh bother... by Trracer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, this won't make any difference at all.

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  2. And in related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    EZTV was taken over by scammers so careful what you download from there
    http://torrentfreak.com/eztv-s...

  3. Worst summary ever by smallfries · · Score: 5, Informative

    The domains have not been seized from the Pirate Bay. The domains have been seized from Fredrik Neij because his property was forfeit after his earlier loss in court.

    After two years the court refused to agree that the actions of the Pirate Bay should lead to the seizure of the domains, and instead a shortcut has been found to grab them by another means.

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    1. Re:Worst summary ever by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Informative

      It sort of already is, so if the .se domain goes down:

      uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion

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  4. Unenforceable laws by bradley13 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's been said before, but: when a law is essentially impossible to enforce, the problem is with the law. The ease with which digitized goods can be copied is an indication that copyright probably should not apply to them.

    I actually believe (naively?) that this would not cost individual authors and musicians anything at all. I choose to by music and books from artists that I like, because I want them to continue creating.

    Likely, it would affect the big companies, like Disney. They would have to find new ways to monetize their assets, and might have to create new mascots more often than every hundred years. The worlds tiniest violin...

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    1. Re:Unenforceable laws by netsavior · · Score: 5, Interesting

      If Disney realized how much I spend on Iron Man shoes, backpacks, toys, notebooks, Infinity characters, crackers, cookies, drinks, t-shirts, and costumes for my kid; they probably would laugh at me for sweating over a 7 dollar movie ticket. Their core business is brand awareness, piracy is quite nicely aligned with that.

  5. Newsflash! by Qbertino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Newsflash!
    Closing of ThePirateBay top level domains forces millions of users to search two minutes for an alternative bittorrent infosite.

    Next up: Bag of rice falls over in China! Situation unclear!

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