• The PirateBay gets raided!
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[quote]POLICE RAIDS across Europe have managed to take down popular Bit-torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay. The website, which is hosted by the same firm that houses servers for Wikileaks, was hit hard by the authorities as they moved in on alleged filesharers armed with nothing more than IP addresses. According to Torrentfreak, police in 14 countries throughout Europe were involved, including the United Kingdom. Talking to the web hosting site PRQ, the firm that provides hosting services to The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks, it said that five coppers tipped up asking for the persons using certain IP addresses. The chap from PRQ admitted to handing over email addresses but added "it is rare that our clients have email addresses that are traceable". At the time of writing The Pirate Bay's website is down, though as its tracker operates on a distributed hash table (DHT), the outage will merely serve to stop the acquisition of torrent files and not cease actual file sharing itself. Torrentfreak also got word from a Swedish prosecutor that the raid had nothing to do with Wikileaks. While The Pirate Bay's website is down, Wikileaks is still operational, suggesting that for once it isn't the centre of attention for law enforcement authorities. It is being reported that the police seized a number of servers during the raids. Given the noise The Pirate Bay made about the resilience of its hosting, one wonders how long it will take before the resourceful lads get it back on its feet.[/quote] Copy and pasta'd from [url]http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1731683/police-raids-the-pirate-bay[/url] My reaction: Holy shit.
Lets hope they wont be gone forever. ThePiratebay will re-emerge.
Didn't this happen before?
It will be back up. This is like the 5th time they have been taken down or something like that.
It was running on its last leg yesterday. I guess this is why.
It will be back most likely.
Yes, I'm not saying it won't be back up. It's just a massive server seizure, the pirates will take awhile to recover form this one.
TPB was attempted to get taken down multiple times already. They will always come back up a few days after.
What, again?
I was downloading something from TPB just yesterday. Does this mean if I am to open up Utorrent the file won't download or does this mean I just can't browse the website for NEW ones? [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Warez" - TH89))[/highlight]
Dunno, my seeds are still up... (all freeware of course)
They just don't learn, do they? [sp]For morons: the raiders.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Star Son;24666946]I was downloading something from TPB just yesterday. Does this mean if I am to open up Utorrent the file won't download or does this mean I just can't browse the website for NEW ones?[/QUOTE] You know, you don't have to download your linux distros off the pirate bay.
If I were them I'd hide the servers underwater. Nobody would ever suspect it!
TPB don't run trackers any more (as of last year some time), so all of your torrents will still work with other trackers and DHT.
[QUOTE=Star Son;24666946]I was downloading something from TPB just yesterday. Does this mean if I am to open up Utorrent the file won't download or does this mean I just can't browse the website for NEW ones?[/QUOTE] The latter, you should of known this by actually READING the quote in the thread.
People talking about pirates taking a hit because a server was seized or a website shut down remind me of the ending of Terminator 3. By the time Skynet became self-aware, it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software in cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be shut down.
[QUOTE=leontodd;24666960]If I were them I'd hide the servers underwater. Nobody would ever suspect it![/QUOTE] True, but where in the world would there be waters calm enough to plant them without the tide ripping it off its' fixtures?
[QUOTE=MasterFen007;24666970]The latter, you should of known this by actually READING the quote in the thread.[/QUOTE] sorry its just that this stuff is confusing to me.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;24666956]You know, you don't have to download your linux distros off the pirate bay.[/QUOTE] Actually there is a lot more than linux distros, my friend uploaded his freeware game to TPB and now when his website is down there is still a mirror for his file.
[QUOTE=Star Son;24666995]sorry its just that this stuff is confusing to me.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=OP;24666850]At the time of writing The Pirate Bay's website is down, though as its tracker operates on a distributed hash table (DHT), the outage will merely serve to stop the acquisition of torrent files and not cease actual file sharing itself.[/QUOTE] Is this really too hard to understand?
I feel safe knowing police force was used to take down people giving free movies that are even though being pirated make tons of cash.
[QUOTE=Star Son;24666946]I was downloading something from TPB just yesterday. Does this mean if I am to open up Utorrent the file won't download or does this mean I just can't browse the website for NEW ones?[/QUOTE] Why can't you just download those Linux distros from the official websites instead??
It's up.
[QUOTE=Stick it in her pooper;24667098]It's up.[/QUOTE] See what I meant? They can't take it down for long. The website was offline minutes ago.
I don't know about you guys but the website is up for me.
I wanted to get on it, and so I stumbled on the article. It's been down for most of this morning.
Yeah really fucking smart to pull off the raid now, only a few days to the elections here in Sweden. I wonder which party will get a huge uprise of votes...
Oh no, my Linux Distros!
The guys who run TPB are very, very smart. They will have this back up and running in a matter of days if not hours. All the actual site/databases are hosted on servers hidden globally, in places such as bank vaults. The servers the police keep raiding and taking are just reverse-proxies, or frontends. All they'll contain that relates to TPB is a couple of config files pointing to the backend servers, which can be moved at the drop of a hat when anything like this happens. If anyone has done bulletproof hosting properly, it's TPB.
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