Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down, Amongst Other Sites

[DotKritic]

The popular file-sharing service Pirate Bay was taken down today following a raid in Sweden by police who seized servers and computers.

The Pirate Bay portal went down Tuesday morning after Swedish police raided a server room in Stockholm over alleged copyright violations. In addition to its file-sharing section, Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org was also down.
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Today’s raid comes after some of the movie files stolen from Sony Pictures Entertainment in its recent hack became available for download through links at Pirate Bay. It’s unknown if the raid and takedown were instigated by the distribution of those Sony files.
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Pirate Bay may not be the only target. According to TorrentFreak, other sites related to file sharing such as EZTV, Zoink, and Torrage went down today as well, though it’s not yet known if they were also raided.
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Despite the previous convictions, Pirate Bay has managed to forge ahead without its founders, catering to millions of daily users. Although today’s raid is not the first—Pirate Bay was also raided in 2006—in 2012 its operators bragged that they had moved their operations to the cloud to make the service virtually impervious to police raids. By hosting their operation from multiple cloud hosting providers located in a number of countries, a single police raid would not be able to disrupt their operation. Or so they thought.

It’s unclear how long authorities can keep Pirate Bay down this time before it pops up again.

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[noname219]

Expect Anonymous.

[Hakulyte]

I'm pretty sure it's already back up somewhere else in the world which says a lot about how it's going.

[gold stinger]

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[Charu]

Dis is a stickup, see sonny

[gold stinger]

requesting link to pirate bay mirror

[dashoe93]

I give it a week and eleven minutes.

[gold stinger]

Give it now.

https://thepiratebay.cr/

might be overloaded due to international attention right now.

RT is covering the story on the new .cr domain supposedly, that's how I got the address:

http://rt.com/news/212911-pirate-bay-police-raid/

[PhantomPuppy]

better go download final fantasy 13 before that mirror goes down too :P

[gold stinger]

they will have 19 other mirrors if someone does a raid on costa rica servers

and on top of that, they have been monitoring the location of the sweden servers for some odd months. It took quite a bit of planning to do.

[hi19hi19]

It's weird seeing authorities consistently overestimate how much of a fuck some portions of the online community give about physical objects, when the actual amount anyone cares is probably only a few fractions of a fuck more than zero. Oh boy, you took a fucking server. Wow.
Like, you'd think Interpol and national security agencies and whatnot would wrap their head around it by now that a generation raised in a culture of easily and massively portable data might have their stuff in more than one place. The data is not going anywhere. Period. That's how the internet works. Traditional tactics of identifying one person/place/organization then running over and busting up said thing is mostly just hilarious in this context.

Literally the only thing they can do is arrest and jail actual people as a scare tactic (as you're not going to get all the people either) and we've all seen how amusingly little of a difference even that makes.

[gold stinger]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

Literally the only thing they can do is arrest and jail actual people as a scare tactic (as you're not going to get all the people either) and we've all seen how hilariously little of a difference even that makes.

actually they let Kim Dotcom (Original owner of Megaupload) out of jail. They couldn't keep him in there.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...t-violate-bail

[hi19hi19]

That's my point lol

[MrGiggles]

you can use cached google pages to access magnet links if the .cr domain is still being funky

example: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...20of%20thrones

It’s unclear how long authorities can keep Pirate Bay down this time before it pops up again.

come on wired, pull it together guys. it's super clear, the whole site is downloadable as a torrent (~90MB), and can be rehosted within hours

[choof]

ctrl+f "cd"
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literally do not care

[Red Blaster]

How did they raid their server? Sweden doesn't have strict piracy laws iirc.
That's how TPB has operated and avoided legal action this entire time.

[Moogle-master]

the .cr isn't a legit thing and doesn't work properly because it relies on the real tbp being availiable. the lastest official link is .ac - from their twitter. i'd just sit back and wait

[MixMasterLar]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

It's weird seeing authorities consistently overestimate how much of a fuck some portions of the online community give about physical objects, when the actual amount anyone cares is probably only a few fractions of a fuck more than zero. Oh boy, you took a fucking server. Wow.
Like, you'd think Interpol and national security agencies and whatnot would wrap their head around it by now that a generation raised in a culture of easily and massively portable data might have their stuff in more than one place. The data is not going anywhere. Period. That's how the internet works. Traditional tactics of identifying one person/place/organization then running over and busting up said thing is mostly just hilarious in this context.

Literally the only thing they can do is arrest and jail actual people as a scare tactic (as you're not going to get all the people either) and we've all seen how amusingly little of a difference even that makes.

rofl

Yeah at this point they might as well let the site go and give up.

[_Zenith_]

There is no way in hell that the entire Pirate Bay portal/server consisted in Sweden; it will eventually pop up again like the 4-5 times this has happened previous.