The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid (torrentfreak.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/01/2145208/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid
- Source link: https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/
> On May 31, 2006, less than three years after The Pirate Bay was founded, 65 Swedish police officers entered a datacenter in Stockholm. They had instructions to take the site's servers offline as part of a criminal probe, following pressure from the US government. As the police were about to enter, Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij knew something wasn't quite right. Both men said they had noticed being tailed by private investigators. This time, however, their servers were the target.
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> At around 10:00 in the morning, Gottfrid told Fredrik that there were police officers at their office. He asked his colleague to head down to the co-location facility and get rid of the 'incriminating evidence', although none of it, whatever it was, related to The Pirate Bay. As Fredrik was leaving, he suddenly realized the problems might be linked to their torrent tracker. Just in case, he decided to make a full backup of the site. When he arrived at the co-location facility, those concerns turned out to be justified. Dozens of police officers were floating around, taking away dozens of servers, most of which belonged to clients unrelated to The Pirate Bay.
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> In the days that followed, it became clear that Fredrik's decision to back up the site was probably the most pivotal moment in its history. Because of that backup, the Pirate Bay team managed to resurrect the site within three days. The entire situation was handled with the mockery TPB had become known for. Unimpressed, the operators renamed the site " [4]The Police Bay ," complete with a new logo shooting cannonballs at Hollywood. A few days later the logo was replaced by a Phoenix, a reference to the site rising from its digital ashes. Instead of shutting it down, the raid propelled The Pirate Bay into the mainstream press, not least due to its swift resurrection. The publicity also triggered a huge traffic spike, exactly the opposite of what Hollywood had hoped for.
[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/04/02/1631203/pirate-bay-raid-investigation-finished
[2] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/05/04/1849249/prosecutor-announces-charges-against-pirate-bay
[3] https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/
[4] https://slashdot.org/story/06/06/03/1220249/the-pirate-bay-is-back-online
Seeing censorship as damage... (Score:3)
...and not only routing around it but standing up new servers to deliver more and faster.
I wonder if John Gilmore truly knew just how right he was.
Watch The Pirate Bay: The Movie (Score:1)
The Pirate Bay: The Movie coming soon to a torrent site near you.
Even pirating sucks (Score:2)
With the absolute crap that has been coming out (both TV and cinema) I don't even find the stuff worth downloading any longer. It's much better to hit the yard sales and flea markets in the summer and snap up box sets of good TV series on DVD and individual movie DVDs for pennies on the dollar. Hollywood has turned into a puke fest.
Better quality, too (Score:2)
Given how crappy a lot of "official' upsampling and other AI slop is and other batch-processing errors, aspect ratio changes ruining editing, and IP licensing making the music vanish, pirated media is frequently simply better quality.
But their big problem is reinventing all the cable shenanigans people hate without the natural monopoly to enforce it. When you run a wire to someone's house, there's lock-in. Streaming removes that "loyalty'. Now add in all the constant media swapping that means you can't cou
backups (Score:2)
> In the days that followed, it became clear that Fredrik's decision to back up the site was probably the most pivotal moment in its history.
Maybe he should have made a backup earlier.
When it comes to law enforcement action (Score:2)
Im always reminded of this quote from Goodfellas "And all they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. And that's what it's all about. That's what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can't go to the cops. That's it. That's all it is. They're like the police department for wiseguys." These people dont operate within any borders or rules.
This was 20 years ago?? (Score:2)
It seems like it was just last week.
I use it (or it's mirrors everday). (Score:4, Informative)
I haven't purchased a movie or TV show in probably those same 20 years, and neither should anyone else.
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I was gonna say -- this was also the moment when it was mirrored to hell and back so it could never be taken down again :)
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I like the idea of supporting creators to whatever extent I can. As an anime nerd I know that Blu-ray sales are the main metric whether a show gets another season or not. That and merchandise sales but I don't really have space to set up merch and I don't like buying it just to put it in a corner of a closet. Plus buying blu-rays gets me high quality video on a pressed disc that will more than likely outlive me.
I have no illusions though about how the people who make anime get treated. I know only a tin