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Pirating 'The Pirate Bay' TV Series Is Ironically Difficult (torrentfreak.com)

(Friday November 08, 2024 @10:30PM (BeauHD) from the how-about-that dept.)


With the debut of the [1]Pirate Bay TV series in Sweden, international viewers are [2]finding it surprisingly difficult to pirate . TorrentFreak reports:

> The series [3]premiered at the on-demand platform of the Swedish national broadcaster SVT a few hours ago. International deals haven't been announced, but pirates can generally get access anyway. Soon after the first two episodes of The Pirate Bay series came out, scene release copies started [4]circulating online . As one would expect.

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> The Scene group OLLONBORRE, which specializes in Swedish content, was the first to pick the show up. Within minutes, the first 1080p WEB-rips were posted on private scene servers and 720p copies followed a few hours later. Interestingly, pirate releases have yet to make their way to The Pirate Bay. We haven't seen any other copies on other public pirate sites either, which is surprising given the topic of the series.

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> It's common knowledge that [5]The Scene -- a secretive network of release groups -- prefers to keep its releases private. Therefore, it wasn't happy with The Pirate Bay's public nature and rise to prominence in the early 2003s, which is highlighted in the first episodes of the TV series. However, we expected non-scene release groups would be eager to pick up the show. Apparently that's not the case, yet.



[1] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/08/20/2116212/the-pirate-bay-tv-series-teaser-appears-online

[2] https://torrentfreak.com/pirating-the-pirate-bay-tv-series-is-ironically-difficult-241108/

[3] https://www.svtplay.se/the-pirate-bay

[4] https://predb.org/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene


How ironic (Score:1)

by p51d007 ( 656414 )

Surprised it hasn't shown up ON the Pirate Bay

Re: (Score:2)

by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 )

I have a theory. It may be similar to how [1]you should never type Google into Google, or you'll break the internet [youtu.be].

[1] https://youtu.be/OqxLmLUT-qc?si=00jEKxLacLicTcnI

Re: (Score:2)

by Kernel Kurtz ( 182424 )

Hopefully the first ones that show up won't be cams.

Re: (Score:2)

by lsllll ( 830002 )

Kudos. I think you summarized TFS down to just that one sentence.

I missed something. (Score:3)

by msauve ( 701917 )

rise to prominence in the early 2003s

I only remember one 2003. Guess I missed the other ones.

Re: (Score:3)

by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 )

The summary's reference was confusing because they didn't use full CIDR notation - 2003/30.

Re: (Score:2)

by Sloppy ( 14984 )

It was no 2007, but still quite a year, more than the average (about 1.0) number of years long.

Re: (Score:2)

by lsllll ( 830002 )

Talking about /dev/null, has anybody ever put a symbolic link in its place and pointed it to an HD or SSD and then checked to see what ends up on the disk?

No! (Score:2)

by RitchCraft ( 6454710 )

Uploading pirated material about the Pirate Bay to the Pirate Bay would be the equivalent of mixing matter and anti-matter. What are you thinking people?! Think of the children!

Yes but no. (Score:4, Insightful)

by Gravis Zero ( 934156 )

Documentaries like "Steal This Film" (2006 & 2007) and "The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard" (2013) are easy enough to get.

It seems more likely that most groups simply aren't chomping at the bit to get something that is purely in Swedish. Give it a bit of time and it'll be out there.

What is difficult? (Score:1)

by Uldis Segliņš ( 4468089 )

You are just waiting and anxious to leech. If you were doing something and then encountered some roadblocks, that could be called difficult. Now you just scream . where is it, where is it and call that difficult.

The Worst Prison Guards
The largest number of convicts ever to escape simultaneously from a
maximum security prison is 124. This record is held by Alcoente Prison,
near Lisbon in Portugal.
During the weeks leading up to the escape in July 1978 the prison
warders had noticed that attendances had fallen at film shows which
included "The Great Escape", and also that 220 knives and a huge quantity
of electric cable had disappeared. A guard explained, "Yes, we were
planning to look for them, but never got around to it." The warders had
not, however, noticed the gaping holes in the wall because they were
"covered with posters". Nor did they detect any of the spades, chisels,
water hoses and electric drills amassed by the inmates in large quantities.
The night before the breakout one guard had noticed that of the 36
prisoners in his block only 13 were present. He said this was "normal"
because inmates sometimes missed roll-call or hid, but usually came back
the next morning.
"We only found out about the escape at 6:30 the next morning when
one of the prisoners told us," a warder said later. [...] When they
eventually checked, the prison guards found that exactly half of the gaol's
population was missing. By way of explanation the Justice Minister, Dr.
Santos Pais, claimed that the escape was "normal" and part of the
"legitimate desire of the prisoner to regain his liberty."
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"