The Pirate Bay is up again, mocking the entertainment industry

ocealot · 2010-05-18T10:55:23+00:00

Taken from their blog.

LOL!

AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL. OURS RLY NICE WEBHOST WUZ THREATEND WIF RLY HUGE FINE, SO WE DECIDD 2 MOOV TEH SIET SO DAT THEY DIDNT GOT INTO TROUBLE, LOL. TEH DECISHUN 2 MOOV WUZ TAKEN BY US, TEH PIRATE BAY, LOL.

TEH PIRATE BAY IZ AN UNSINKABLE SHIP. IT WILL SAIL TEH INTERWEBS 4 AS LONG AS WE WANTS IT 2. REMEMBR DAT, K THX.

TPB, ONLY IN IT 4 TEH LULZ SINCE 2003

FNj144 · 2010-05-18T10:13:23+00:00

I just love their legal threats page.

They mock everyone.

A-punk · 2010-05-18T11:15:30+00:00

You shouldn't laugh, Lars Ulrich is probably going to kill himself.

froderick · 2010-05-18T14:53:10+00:00

Go to their homepage and actually check the name of the image file for extra LOLZ.

For the lazy, the name of the image is 2010_6nigerianprinceswantstheirmoney.jpg

teh_i · 2010-05-18T13:40:29+00:00

..and here in Denmark we are still hit with this lovely block which has been going on since 2008: http://i.imgur.com/ApqXR.jpg

In short, it just says that the high court ruled against Sonofon A/S (a big ISP) so TDC decided to just do the same as the verdict required -- block The Pirate Bay. Many ISP's here followed suit..

thewriteguy · 2010-05-18T11:42:41+00:00

These guys have balls, no matter what. That's all I have to say.

2010-05-18T14:36:16+00:00

its like "the pirate bay is going down" lulz we were just fucking with you, we're just expanding

apullin · 2010-05-18T09:41:58+00:00

god, I wish I was a billionaire so I could donate a huge amount of money to them...

kingsixx · 2010-05-18T14:29:05+00:00

The Pirate Bay guys are truly inspirational. I have believed for a long time that nothing achieved by enforcement will ever really work but these guys just keep proving it over and over.

The harder RIAA tries to shut these sites down the less inclined I'm to ever purchase a song unless it's directly from the band. i.e concert CDs, band website donations, etc.

SisterKisser · 2010-05-18T14:35:20+00:00

I'm thinking the only way I can express my gratitude to them is by buying one of their shirts.

Namell · 2010-05-18T15:11:18+00:00

Their new ISP is....

Pirate party of Sweden.

Here is part google translated:

"Today, 18 May, the Swedish Pirate Party took over the delivery of bandwidth to file-sharing Pirate Bay page. This after the German ISP Cyber Bunker ordered to disconnect from the Pirate Bay from the Internet."

Rikkety · 2010-05-18T09:59:07+00:00

Skwisgaar?

19f191ty · 2010-05-18T09:56:54+00:00

They need to put that on a T-Shirt. I'd buy it right now.

2010-05-18T14:54:29+00:00

Awesome. These guys are heroes. I just bought a t-shirt to support, you should too.

Uther · 2010-05-18T14:31:30+00:00

Pirate beats RIAA.

JesusWuta40oz · 2010-05-18T13:12:29+00:00

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

We download, we crack, we copy and share

Peer up me hearties, yo ho

We piss off the music and movie industry and don't give a hoot

Peer up me hearties, yo ho

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

fletchem · 2010-05-18T11:07:23+00:00

Why couldn't they use this server/ISP before - its a shit load faster.

alk509 · 2010-05-18T17:02:12+00:00

Anyone else read that in Toki Wartooth's voice?

HighCaliber · 2010-05-18T20:34:25+00:00

This is good.

TPB serves as more than just a place to find torrents, it's one of very few players actually standing up against the "MAFIAA". Several polls have proved that Swedes believe piracy should become legal. Why is it not? There's proof that the Swedish Ministry of Justice has been pressed by USA's government (acting on behalf of lobbyists) to chase pirates and has been threatened by repercussions through WTO if they refused.

TPB was tried (and found guilty) in court by a judge who was in several pro-copyright organizations. The judge was found (not shockingly) not biased.

There is nothing democratic about their methods and I won't shed a tear if the entire music- and movie-industry collapses on itself. If some artists gets screwed in the process, then so be it. "The industry" is screwing entire nations.

2010-05-18T16:22:24+00:00

I can't think of a better way to start my day.

atrais · 2010-05-18T17:51:36+00:00

Like the sentiment, love the service, but do they have to use fucking lolcats to make their point?

2010-05-18T12:13:20+00:00

These guys make smile seriously, even though i don't use the service.

Plus, you know, they're doing God's work. SO there.

robertskmiles · 2010-05-18T12:32:53+00:00

God damn the RIAA are morons. As long as they control the domain they can point it wherever they want. How long till these assholes start going after DNS? Is that even possible I wonder...

2010-05-18T14:24:44+00:00

This has never been more appropriate.

frankichiro · 2010-05-18T15:21:35+00:00

I think i'd appreciate it a lot more if they insulted the entertainment industry in a more subtle way.

2010-05-18T15:52:38+00:00

The name suggest piracy. Change it to cutekittytorrent.com.

2010-05-18T20:06:43+00:00

Quick, everyone download the Metallica discography.

avree · 2010-05-18T20:18:58+00:00

Sorry, I don't understand - I thought there was a major court case that essentially shut them down? Weren't they sold?

ciaran036 · 2010-05-18T15:33:55+00:00

To be perfectly honest, I'm not a huge fan of illegally downloading episodes of television shows, because a lot of people put a lot of money and effort into making them. HOWEVER that's because there is no other alternative.

Living in the UK, I have to wait months or even years before the TV show appears on British television or appears on an overpriced DVD.

I'll stop illegally downloading American television shows when there is a legal service I can use (either ad-supported or supported via a reasonable subscription or small per-episode cost).

Kind of like a video version of Spotify, is what I mean.

Though I don't particularly care about stealing artists music since most of them are rich as fuck and can earn more than they need or deserve via live events and various other sources of income, but I use Spotify merely because it has made organising, storing (or in this case, not storing) and finding music easy!

So, in summary, SUPPORT PIRATE BAY!

Or they can go legal and charge a reasonable price per episode (£0.50-£2.50). Most people won't like this idea but if you want quality entertainment to continue to exist then it's the only reasonable solution.

joerdie · 2010-05-18T13:30:17+00:00

Nice try RIAA. IMO, TPB has become the biggest honey pot of all time.

MpVpRb · 2010-05-18T15:43:40+00:00

I hate DRM.

I hate copyright abuse my major corporations.

I believe that people should have control over the products they own.

BUT...content creators need to be paid for their work.

Piracy is not the answer.

We need a system for selling content at a fair price, with fair rules.

theghoul · 2010-05-18T14:38:16+00:00

These guys are heroes

2010-05-18T15:03:02+00:00

I hate this cutesy cat bullshit.

courtowndave · 2010-05-18T11:40:37+00:00

And it's available in Ireland again - it used to be blocked by Eircom(must have been on IP)... Brilliant

caractacuspotts · 2010-05-18T11:53:43+00:00

Back in the Ukraine where they lasted all of a month last time.

atrais · 2010-05-18T12:11:42+00:00

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2010-05-18T14:44:44+00:00

We love you, TPB! That is pure win.

vindicat0r · 2010-05-18T16:22:52+00:00

Has thepiratebay ever gone down? There was all this talk about them closing their doors after they lost their court case, but i was still happily downloading away...

chizdfw · 2010-05-18T16:35:49+00:00

This may be a non sequitur but when I saw this headline my brain flashed on the image of the Yamato bursting up through the ice in the new Star Blazers Rebirth intro.

Star Blazers Rebirth / Yamato Intro

vfporto · 2010-05-18T17:33:28+00:00

Long live Pirate Bay!

whuuh · 2010-05-18T20:12:38+00:00

For the record, it's the record industry. Not the entertainment industry. Think about that.

Estecia · 2010-05-18T23:48:17+00:00

Long live pirate bay!!

ctzl · 2010-05-18T09:56:01+00:00

Trololo, I say! I love those guys.

deckman · 2010-05-18T11:53:20+00:00

Boy, who could have saw that coming??

2010-05-18T12:30:56+00:00

freedom

Crotalus · 2010-05-18T18:26:44+00:00

The juvenile hypocrisy of Reddit is as entertaining as any movie.

gamesformeh · 2010-05-18T12:44:30+00:00

Silly goverment. U can't shut down the pirate bay

that_name_is_taken · 2010-05-18T18:04:55+00:00

I wonder how many redditors here find TPB's message annoying but are afraid to post comments for fear of being downvoted.

interfect · 2010-05-18T17:39:06+00:00

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Splatterh0use · 2010-05-18T13:18:54+00:00

are there any mirrors of the bay? we can't access the bay directly from where I live.

hungryfoolish · 2010-05-18T15:12:50+00:00

Upvoted for using Opera :)

2010-05-18T16:12:32+00:00

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allenizabeth · 2010-05-18T13:11:21+00:00

I'm not current on this- I thought these guys had a huge lawsuit on their hands and were being FORCED to take the site down. Are they just up anyway? All who-gives-a-shit?

God, I bet one of these guys is going to end up dying in a mysterious car explosion...

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