Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here’s What We Know

The overreach that companies with big pockets like Sony Pictures Entertainment have when it comes to enforcing their ownership rights over content they own scares me. It's 2014 and a company like Sony can get a swat and forensics team to take down a website hosted in a completely different country. Just trying to get your local police department to find a stolen car or help you recover a stolen phone can be struggle enough. But heaven forbid, people are sharing magnet links on The Pirate Bay, we must send in the big guns.

I know that Wired is speculating that this is because of the Sony hack, but there have been numerous cases where companies have had incredible global overreach like in the instance of Megaupload.

Seems Sweden has become a US lapdog, this isn't the first time Sweden has bowed down to copyright infringement enforcement requests from the USA and it won't be the last. They've been trying to take down The Pirate Bay for years now, it will never die. It goes down, it comes back within a day or two, why won't they just give up already?

It would kind of be nice if piracy could be temporarily paused, just so we could actually see the economic impact. I imagine theater revenues would not magically increase and the movie execs would go to war on their next imaginary enemy. Unlicensed HDCP strippers or something.

I recall, and this article also mentions, that TBP's operators were bragging about moving to the cloud a couple years ago, and supposedly had become raid-proof[1]. Assuming such is true, I'm curious what law-enforcement did to defeat TPB's anti-raid measures.

1. http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-become...

It's back online at http://piratebay.cr/, but I heard it's having trouble handling the surge of traffic from the news.

Sometimes I just think that the world is perfectly balanced in this regard. Corporate greed and DRM cuffs are offset by people's desire to be freed from them.

Until they start combating piracy by offering better service, they will still be subject to piracy treatment - the most effective and appropriate treatment for megacorps that have too much power in their hands ('overreach', quoting the other poster).

Seeing how fast it went back up makes my heart warm. Long live TPB.

I'm surprised at this - doesn't the Swedish Pirate Party have some ties to the Pirate Bay, and some political power?

So the front end is just a proxy that apparently stores the IP addresses of the backend servers in memory. Here's what I'm wondering: why do they run a site on the public internet at all? Why not run the proxying front end on Tor? Or maybe they do already?

It is mostly a nonsense. There will always be contraflow to decentralized systems. The pirate bay situation is classic stick it to the man storytime. When are LEAs in these regions going to reason that TPB is a hydra - cut off one head, and countless others sprout from it? An absolute nonsense

I can't help but think that adding ads to their website led to their downfall. How can they claim they aren't profiting off stolen content if they are riddled with ads?

> And last week a French court ordered ISPs in that country to block access to Pirate Bay, as well as any of its mirror sites, from within French territory.

This is scary. I really wonder if it isn't just a matter before people are convinced torrents = piracy and ban all torrent traffic.