I can still get a fast response:

    # tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se
    traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 128 hops max, 60 byte packets
    128  thepiratebay.org (194.71.107.15) <syn,ack>  38.726 ms  39.877 ms  39.333 ms