Posted on 08/24/2009 6:55:03 PM PDT by iowamark
Its ISP faced a $70,000 fine if file-sharing site was allowed to continue
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay went down today after its Internet service provider, Black Internet, cut its connection to avoid being fined by the Stockholm district court.
A 500,000 Swedish kronor (US$70,000) fine would be the result if Black Internet did not comply with the decision in the district court.
"The decision was made by the district court on Friday, but reached us today and we have decided to comply. ... We are a small operator and we haven't got the financial resources to pursue such a matter," said Victor Möller, CEO at Black Internet, in an interview with Computer Sweden.
The Stockholm court's decision goes back to May when a number of movie and record companies filed a motion with the court to fine the people behind the Pirate Bay operation, including Black Internet, as long as The Pirate Bay users can access copyright-protected material.
Black Internet isn't the only operator that sells capacity to The Pirate Bay, but it's by far the largest. There is some redundancy with capacity from other operators, but not enough for the site to be up and running.
A Swedish court apparently decided it is illegal to be an ISP, said former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde via Twitter today.
This isn't the first time copyright holders have been able to block The Pirate Bay by taking action against an ISP. The same tactic worked in Denmark, but failed in Italy. There is also a case pending in in Norway, which will go to court Oct. 17.
Meanwhile, Global Gaming Factory X is planning to acquire The Pirate Bay. Its shareholders will decide at a meeting Thursday whether the deal should go through.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
Try Mininova
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-taken-offline-by-swedish-authorities-090824/
“The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities (Updated)”
http://freakbits.com/pirate-bay-downtime-boosts-publicbt-tracker-0824
“Earlier today The Pirate Bay was taken offline by Swedish authorities. As a result many BitTorrent fans were forced to get their BitTorrent fix on other sites and through other trackers, resulting in huge traffic spikes for these alternatives.
For most people TPB is just a site where they can download torrents, but in reality it is more than that. The Pirate Bay tracker is responsible for more than half of all BitTorrent traffic, even for torrents that are downloaded off Mininova or isoHunt.
This means that, when The Pirate Bay goes down, many torrents will slow down or stop working entirely. That is, if there is no backup tracker listed in the torrent. One widely used backup tracker is PublicBitTorrent, a standalone tracker running on OpenTracker software.
As becomes clear from the graph below, the Pirate Bay downtime didn’t go unnoticed for long. As soon as TPB’s tracker went down the number of peers using the PublicBT tracker skyrocketed.
One of the admins told FreakBits that they are currently tracking well over 2.5 million peers, a record since the tracker launched last month. And with the upcoming sale of TPB this figure might go up even further in the near future. Let’s hope it holds up.
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here’s the follow up...
New owner says Pirate Bay will plunder no more
Mr. Pandeya spoke after a Stockholm court order compelled one of Pirate Bay's main Internet service providers to pull the plug on the Swedish-based site for facilitating illegal file sharing.
Also yesterday, Swedish authorities said they are investigating potential irregularities in Global Gaming's stock trading in the days leading up to the June 22 announcement of Pirate Bay's sale for 60 million kronor (about $9-million).
Quite the soap opera!
The difference is that mini doesn’t offer porn, and PB offers it. Now that PB is out of the way, mini will be on the MPAA/RIAA target list. Acct holders/uploaders are now using the filter system just in case.
Pandeya is a tool. Obviously the reason why people DL from PB is #1...the notoriety. They are (now were) the originals and that the founders are now “tools” of the enemy (MPAA/RIAA), they are now the de facto NAPSTER of the BT world. tsk tsk
Mini is now definitely under watch. Looks like I need an invite to the “green demon” (wink).
En olycka kommer sällan ensam.
We have some issues with some fibres that was broken. Didn't know before we had to try them out. Thanks for helping us find the issues in our setup. *Kisses*
Back online in a few hours.
For now you can find torrents at google. See, we're nice people, always helping!
Oh. I guess I never looked for porn!
Good thing I only use torrents to download MMA (now). I stopped after getting letters downloading movies before they were released on DVD. They HATE that.
The only things we have downloaded are Japanese movies.
The rights to them were bought by Disney to dub and release in America. If Disney would allow region 1 DVDs to be released with the Japanese soundtracks, we wouldn’t download at all.
There are too many streaming sites on the web to bother with downloading the pre-DVD releases.
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