ThePirateBay.org kaput... gone.
 

who is next?

tubes?

Hm... worked yesterday

After thousands (maybe 10's of thousands?) of posts with this same title, I'm skeptical, I would imagine it will be up in an hour or two.

dns issues. pirate bay will be around even after the nuclear winter. all your contents are belong to them.

Seems to be down right now. I wouldn't hold my breath on that lasting though. I expect to see it up again in a short amount of time. If not there's plenty of other options still.

Yep, there is 10,000 guys right now tripping over their dicks wishing they could be the next PirateBay.

Cool site, thx.

It's like whack-a-mole. If The Pirate Bay stays down it just means people will go to other tracker sites. If too many people get sued for using torrent sites then someone will make an anonymous way to share files or more people will move to direct downloads (e.g. rapidshare). Before torrents it was AOL chat room bots and Usenet (which still is thriving). It's going to be damn near impossible to put the genie back in the bottle after 10+ years of people being able to easily pirate damn near any film, song or software application they want.

Yup, if TPB goesa down, what do people think is going to happen? Torrent users are just gonna pack up shop and give up on piracy? Hello no. They'll just move to the next best thing. Watch for the explosion of Mininova or BT-Chat or some other smaller torrent tracker. Everyone will just migrate there...

It appears that their business model is coming under increasing pressure.

we're upgrading the server RAM.

be back up in a couple hours.

could use it, there's been a heavy search load on the site lately. Having to wait for searches to complete sucks. I want my full free movies NOW, not a minute from now... :2 cents:

The torrent aggregator method is old in the first place. If you wipe out sites like the Pirate Bay it will only motivate them to improve things so that torrent files are also distributed (and rated) via p2p methods with no need for a central website to search for torrents. Of course that's a lot harder to monetize (no central website).

Someone with just create a good torrent P2P application and bank off PPI... :2 cents:

Yep.

"The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 8 characters."

Hard to increase pressure on people who not only don't care and are determined, but also view themselves as the good side in a heroic battle of good vs evil... with the masses cheering them on.

http://thepiratebay.org/
They rollin, nigs hatin.

They are in maintenance.

:1orglaugh

Bad week for some big sites. I'm sure it will be back up though.

You guys are fucking idiots :uhoh

I agree that pirating is hard to stop - but you morons are idiots for looking at it like it needs to be stopped completely, or that stopping the most common form will bring about even easier options.

If a relentless site like thepiratebay can be taken down (not saying it can) then other sites and methods can be as well.

Media distribution business models need to change.

Imagine a world where for $3.50 you could get any film on the planet in DVD quality delivered to your computer or TV sans DRM (but digitally watermarked) and for $5 you could get HD quality. Want to see the latest episode of Breaking Bad from America or Dr. Who from the UK or Счастливы вместе (Happy Together) from Russia with English subtitles? That'll cost you $2. Subtitles for any language you could want for all content. Everyone on the planet allowed access to this content for these low fees. Localized billing methods should be provided for countries where credit card adoption is less common.

I guarantee you piracy would be less of an issue and sales would be huge.

Down here...

@Ethersync: I'd love to see that, and that's probably the future of the TV, but right now most of those companies (HBO, SciFi,...) have contracts with foreign TV Channels, that prevent them from making those shows available to everyone. But i think that next time those contract will need to be renewed, they will think twice about it, and will ask themselves that question "do we really need them to reach that public? " , and the answer to that question will probably be no.
But i don't see that happening before 5years or so...

the guys who are fucking with Gene Simmons and the other sites, have hacked a site that deals with legal movie rentals.. what they did was redirect the site to thepiratebay, should have to be connected with this

it's not a DNS issue, the domain resolves.

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: thepirateby.org
Address: 124.150.130.73

Which resolves to a netblock in Taiwan

inetnum: 124.150.128.0 - 124.150.135.255
netname: PUMO-NET
descr: PUMO NETWORK DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD
descr: 5F.-8, No.736, Zhongzheng Rd., Zhonghe City,
descr: Taipei County Taiwan 235
country: TW
admin-c: CC376-AP
tech-c: CC376-AP
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
mnt-by: MAINT-TW-TWNIC
mnt-lower: MAINT-TW-TWNIC
changed: [email protected] 20090816
source: APNIC

person: Chih-Lung Chiang
nic-hdl: CC376-AP
e-mail: [email protected]
address: 5F.-8, No.736, Zhongzheng Rd., Zhonghe City, Taipei County 235, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
address: Taipei County, 235, R.O.C
phone: +886-9-2164-1205
fax-no: +886-2-8226-9122
country: TW
changed: [email protected] 20090608
mnt-by: MAINT-TW-TWNIC
source: APNIC


Looks more like a routing issue from what I can see:

16 ge-7-40.car1.sanjose2.level3.net (4.59.0.169) 81.051 ms 74.428 ms 73.086 ms
17 60-199-18-161.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.18.161) 226.953 ms 226.619 ms
60-199-17-65.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.17.65) 226.175 ms
18 60-199-18-89.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.18.89) 306.838 ms
60-199-18-93.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.18.93) 226.525 ms
60-199-18-89.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.18.89) 228.876 ms
19 60-199-18-85.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.18.85) 226.043 ms
60-199-18-81.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.18.81) 226.919 ms
60-199-18-77.static.tfn.net.tw (60.199.18.77) 224.505 ms
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21 219-80-240-50.static.tfn.net.tw (219.80.240.50) 213.878 ms 213.318 ms 214.416 ms
22 124.150.129.14 (124.150.129.14) 221.267 ms 306.878 ms 214.234 ms
23 124.150.129.30 (124.150.129.30) 214.120 ms 213.445 ms 214.913 ms
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Cool, good info. :thumbsup

You could say the same for adult sites and their overpriced $30 / month crap. :)

Yeah, I understand it's not possible with how the industry does distribution now, but it needs to change. We live in a different world now. This is the only hope of really cutting into piracy around the world.

^^^^^^^^^^

Absolutely.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Amazing: http://twitter.com/#search?q=pirate%20bay

torrents.net is also down right now, blegh. sad weekend for pirates.

news article: http://freakbits.com/the-pirate-bay-...k-soonish-1018

Heh this post is like you accessed my brain and read it's content :upsidedow
I would have no problem to pay for movies and tv series downloads.But due to stupid licensees system and delays(for example,new tv episode of csi is launched in usa,and they not allow distribution to europe for minimum six months)i have no choice then download over pirate torrents sites.And i dont use torrents just to download unavailable tv series/movies,i use also to watch series/movies which was on tv but i missed it beacuse of bad time.

Yep,i dont think there is a site which more people want to see it down.Only solution to kill it is to issue isp ban on all important countries.

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: thepiratebay.org
Address: 194.71.107.15

sorry for the typo :1orglaugh

still resolves tho, doesn't look like a dns issue.

22 fe-1-0.pio-fw-2.piratpartiet.se (194.14.56.6) 165.145 ms 163.822 ms 162.168 ms
23 194.14.56.29 (194.14.56.29) 179.975 ms 180.506 ms 179.998 ms
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Great news :thumbsup

Good. Hope they stay down a while.