nsane.forums Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Following an injunction obtained by several major Hollywood movie studios, yesterday Pirate Bay bandwidth provider CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG took the decision to take the site offline while it digested the legal implications.That meant that for several hours The Pirate Bay, for the first time in many months, was taken offline. An insider at the site told TorrentFreak that people shouldn’t worry, and that the site would soon return.By start of play this morning that promise had been kept. In most corners of the globe, the world’s most resilient BitTorrent tracker was living up to its name by coming back online with a new and as yet unnamed host.Now the identity of the site’s ISP has been revealed, and it is a somewhat of a surprising revelation.“Today, on 18 May, the Swedish Pirate Party took over the delivery of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay,” says the Party’s Rick Falkvinge in a statement.“We got tired of Hollywood’s cat and mouse game with the Pirate Bay so we decided to offer the site bandwidth,” he adds. “It is time to take the bull by the horns and stand up for what we believe is a legitimate activity.”The Pirate Party say they will provide bandwidth to the site’s homepage and search engine.“The Pirate Bay is a search page, and as such it is not responsible for the results,” notes Falkvinge.The Party adds the attempts at censoring The Pirate Bay “is an attempt to silence one of today’s most important opinion makers in matters of civil liberties and rights on the web,” adding that it is “nothing less than political censorship, and something that any democratic-minded person must reject.”This is a breaking story, refresh for updates.Article from: TorrentFreak. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Owl Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Great news! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I will sue you for pilfering my copyrighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . cat :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted May 18, 2010 Administrator Share Posted May 18, 2010 Great news indeed. :thumbsup: :win:The Pirate Bay + The Pirate Party = Fabulous combination. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 The Party adds the attempts at censoring The Pirate Bay “is an attempt to silence one of today’s most important opinion makers in matters of civil liberties and rights on the web,” adding that it is “nothing less than political censorship, and something that any democratic-minded person must reject.”This reflects with what I said in my other post:It may need to come back under a different name or something. Trust me, it wasn't just Hollywood that helped to get this done. Mainstream media, mega corporations and others have been consolidated by the Governments and so the strong shove to get rid of ThePirateBay is a clear message to me: It is doing SOMETHING right. Anything that does not benefit those greedy ass holes is either bought out or shut down. ThePirateBay NEEDS to survive if we want some sort of freedom.It's always good to know your enemy...Big Brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 My browser is special - it shows the same old name 'The Pirate Bay.' ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I seriously question whether this was a good move...It's never smart to connect the 'guerilla-like' part of an organization with the 'political' and 'out-in-the-open' part of the same organization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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