On December 9, the Pirate Bay, long a central link repository for various illicit torrents, went offline. The 11 year-old site had long been lambasted by content creators and studios for the way it enabled and encouraged piracy, which means its removal from the Internet ought to have had some impact, at least temporarily, on total piracy across the Internet. According ...
If you’re still lamenting the loss of The Pirate Bay, which was shut down last week by Swedish police, you now have an intriguing new option: If you have some web hosting, a small amount of tech savvy, and you’re located in a country where it’s legal, you can now easily host your own Pirate Bay. Called The Open Bay, it’s as simple as downloading some files*from Github and running a setup wizard. ...
A week ago, The Pirate Bay was raided and shut down. At this point, with no resurrection apparently forthcoming, it looks like it might be dead forever. This hasn’t stopped fake sites from popping up — including, rather amusingly, a site called Old Pirate Bay that is being managed by IsoHunt, one of Pirate Bay’s largest rivals. According to data from an anti-piracy firm, which tracks ...
The Pirate Bay has been raided by Swedish police and shut down — possibly forever, according to its co-founder Peter Sunde. According to some initial reports coming out of the Sweden, Stockholm police seized computers and equipment belonging to The Pirate Bay, and have detained “at least one man connected to the site.” At this point, it’s unknown if the current operators of The Pirate ...
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