 Thepiratebay.org Raided - Servers Seized |
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 May 31 2006, 12:50 PM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 201 Joined: 20-March 06 Member No.: 20,365  |
As www.slyck.com reports today, here, the servers of swedish bittorrent tracker and indexing service thepiratebay.org have been seized. Interesting to note is that they also report that the swedish police is not certain whether an actual crime has been commited.
I doubt they'll be offline for long. |
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May 31 2006, 01:57 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 537 Joined: 19-May 06 From: Leeds, UK Member No.: 23,963 |
I rarely use Bittorrents, but when I did, I use(d) suprnova, never heard of piratebay.
However, was interesting to read, and slightly funny that the police arn't sure whether it's illegal... PS: In your post, you don't tell them that the police raid their servers. You make it sound like it was a hacker, and the police are unsure if the hacker should be arrested...or to me atleast |
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May 31 2006, 03:15 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 201 Joined: 20-March 06 Member No.: 20,365 |
Hmm Dagoth... Suprnova is LONG gone lol
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May 31 2006, 08:11 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 20-May 06 Member No.: 23,968 |
Doesn't affect me. I abandoned the Pirate Bay because there are too many leechers that won't seed to a 100% share ratio. That's why I use Demonoid.
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May 31 2006, 08:23 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 174 Joined: 25-February 06 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 19,113 |
I think that TPB will be back online soon because they seemed pretty sure that what they were doing was legal in Sweden. Also, TPB is a tracker - they track the downloads and synchronize it, they dont actually host illegal files (or that's what they claimed!)
And BTW the story recieved 4000+ in less than 9 hours!! They're pretty popular 
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May 31 2006, 09:47 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 20-May 06 Member No.: 23,968 |
QUOTE(Paul @ May 31 2006, 08:23 PM)  I think that TPB will be back online soon because they seemed pretty sure that what they were doing was legal in Sweden. Also, TPB is a tracker - they track the downloads and synchronize it, they dont actually host illegal files (or that's what they claimed!) And BTW the story recieved 4000+ in less than 9 hours!! They're pretty popular They are very popular, and they never had a downtime over a day or two ever since I've heard of it. |
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Jun 1 2006, 06:21 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 201 Joined: 20-March 06 Member No.: 20,365 |
Well TPB plans to be back within a day or two, or so they say on their website.
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Jun 1 2006, 11:47 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 629 Joined: 26-February 05 Member No.: 3,995 |
QUOTE TPB is a tracker - they track the downloads and synchronize it, they dont actually host illegal files (or that's what they claimed!) That's why they're also being charged with assisting breach of copy-right law.It's wrong on the part of the police to take servers that didn't host the torrents, and TPB will probably get a slightly less harsh sentence/less chance of being convicted/some form of compensation for that. |
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Jun 2 2006, 12:49 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 3-May 06 Member No.: 22,970 |
Hmm I never used bit torrents before but it is popularly used by my friends at school... Although I still dont know what bit torrents are... although I have an idea of what it is... This one seems popular and most likely gonna go back up soon again once things cool down around the topic
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