Is this the end of Pirate Bay?

[GoochDogHigh5s]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/10/pirate_bay_stockholm_raid/

Pirate Bay sunk amid Swedish data-center raid

Torrent site and online copyright infringement poster child The Pirate Bay experienced a lengthy worldwide outage on Tuesaday, reportedly following the raid of a Stockholm area data center by Swedish police.

The site dropped off the web early on Tuesday and remained unavailable for much of the day, only re-emerging in the late hours with a new URL hosted under the top-level domain for Costa Rica.

It's unclear, however, whether the new site is a continuation of the earlier version or an unofficial mirror. As of late Tuesday, it seemed largely unresponsive, and search requests returned server errors.

Swedish authorities have kept mostly mum about the raid that apparently downed the site, including such details as the exact location of the data center involved and what sort of equipment was seized.

Paul Pintér, Stockholm County Police's national coordinator for intellectual property crime, issued only a brief statement on Tuesday, saying: "There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law."

Fredrik Ingbland, a prosecutor who specializes in file-sharing cases on behalf of the Swedish government, also confirmed the raid to Sveriges Radio, although he would not share further details or even confirm that The Pirate Bay was the target.

"Several servers and computers were seized, but I don't want to say exactly how many," Ingbland said, adding, "I can't say exactly what the crime is yet."

This certainly wouldn't be the first time that authorities have attacked The Pirate Bay by going after its servers. Past occasions have sent the site sailing to various domains and hosting providers around the globe, where it briefly found friendly ports under such regimes as Peru, Guayana, and the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten.

The site's personnel have come under legal pressure, as well. Cofounder Peter Sunde was released from jail last month after serving a five-month sentence for facilitating copyright infringement, and two other Pirate Bay cofounders – Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg – are still locked up on various charges.

According to file-sharing news site TorrentFreak, at least one man may have been detained by police in connection with Tuesday's raid.

Several other sites reportedly also went offline as a result of the raid in addition to The Pirate Bay, including Bayimg.com, EZTV, Istole, Pastebay.new, Suprbay.org, Torrage, and Zoink. ®

[madhair60]

No.

[GoochDogHigh5s]

No.

Thanks

[NoSleep]

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-has-not-been-resurrected-yet-141210/

There hasn't been this much panic in the file-sharing world since 2006. Back then the cause was a huge police raid that targeted The Pirate Bay in its Swedish homeland. Now, eight years later, it's deja vu all over again.

[mook]

next time it'll be deja^cubed or not. i don't care. thievery is too much hassle now, the fun is over.

[NoSleep]

Reading this: https://torrentfreak.com/uk-piracy-blocklist-expands-with-demonoid-isohunt-iptorrents-and-more-141127/

...all you have to do is sign up to another ISP that isn't Sky, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica UK or Virgin.

[Hangthebuggers]

Reading this: https://torrentfreak.com/uk-piracy-blocklist-expands-with-demonoid-isohunt-iptorrents-and-more-141127/

...all you have to do is sign up to another ISP that isn't Sky, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica UK or Virgin.

Or use a VPN to bypass the ISP censorship.

[NoSleep]

Voting with your feetbank account sends a message, too.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Another method is just to search for what you want via google (plus the word "torrent" and maybe whatever torrent site you want to search in), then open the cached version of the page (since those aren't blocked) and get the torrent link from there. It also means you can use still use sites that have been taken down, like Pirate Bay.

[checkoutgirl]

then open the cached version of the page

What's a cached version of the page? Can you explain it in Lehmann's terms? I'm asking for a friend.

[El Unicornio, mang]

When you get your search results, you'll notice next to the link address there's a little arrow pointing down. Click on that and it provides a link to a cached version of the page, which is basically a version of the page that google stores on it's own servers. It has its own unique address so can't be blocked based on the site it's originally from.

[checkoutgirl]

When you get your search results, you'll notice next to the link address there's a little arrow pointing down. Click on that and it provides a link to a cached version of the page, which is basically a version of the page that google stores on it's own servers. It has its own unique address so can't be blocked based on the site it's originally from.

Oh, so you copy and paste the link by hand and it works? Brill.

[GoochDogHigh5s]

Wow. Not that I use these sites myself of course

[El Unicornio, mang]

Oh, so you copy and paste the link by hand and it works? Brill.

You don't have to copy and paste, just click "cached", which takes you to the cached page, then click on the torrent download button as you would normally.

[Junglist]

https ignores the block, on private trackers at least. I'm on bitsoup and its still working fine on Sky.

[Bhazor]

Is this the end of Pirate Bay?

Eh, maybe. But just like when Megaupload went down there will be literally hundreds of replacements within the day.

[syntaxerror]

A lot of content is readily available and reasonably priced these days so I don't feel any inclination to pirate, er, not that I ever did.

[VegaLA]

Nooooooooooooo!!

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/09/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-and-knock-the-site-offline/

No. Well...lets hope not.

[thraxx]

...and Michael Bay gets off scott free...

[Dusty Gozongas]

I recall a lot of people jumped to Tribler when something similar happened a few years back. I had various degrees of success with my own searches at the time but it's still being updated.

[weekender]

It does feel a bit like 'they' are getting a bit better at clamping down at this sort of thing though.

It just took me nearly two minutes to find a download of something I wanted, when it used to take about 10 seconds.

[weekender]

And then 10 minutes of sorting through fake files, ugh.

Anyone got an invite to a private site?

[madhair60]

Yeah, I could use some advice and all. :(

[Noodle Lizard]

Just go on KickassTorrents, it's basically the same thing with the same exact torrents and actually has a better ratings system than ThePirateBay.  I only used ThePirateBay because it came more naturally to my typing fingers.

[small_world]

Kick ass is good.
I think they have more torrents, or its always seemed that way.
I like their layout as well, being able to browse by type/date/size etc.

Thing is though, it's almost as widely blocked in the UK.
Fuckers.

There are a few sites I've come across recently that seem to have good torrent links, but they aren't as Easy to browse.
They don't list by upload date or seed strength and you can't browse a category, but if you know what you're looking for, it's normally there. (some dodgy stuff though) one was called store torrent I think.

[alan nagsworth]

You can still access the site through google by using this super secret magical code:

site:http://thepiratebay.se "the name of whatever you're after"

and then accessing the cached version of the desired search result as mentioned above. The site comes out looking hella basic but it still works fine.

[Junglist]

Kick ass is good.
I think they have more torrents, or its always seemed that way.
I like their layout as well, being able to browse by type/date/size etc.

Thing is though, it's almost as widely blocked in the UK.
Fuckers.

Just type kat proxy into the Googles. First link, works, bangin', have some toast.

[checkoutgirl]

Also you can get to Kickass by using an aggregator like torrentz.eu

[The Region Legion]

Kickass.so is currently unblocked on BT.

[olliebean]

Rarbg seems quite good, although it got blocked the day after tpb went down. The word "proxy" in a search makes short work of that though.