The Pirate Bay goes down after legal pressure

'goes down' in the title kind of makes it sound like the site is down for good, which isn't the case.

<i>The Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The Pirate Bay team is currently working on a solution.</i><p>They'll be back.

They'll be back. We've been here before. Also, it's their provider that shut them down, the pirate bay has little to do with that.<p>Weren't they their own provider?<p>Meanwhile if you are looking for the torrent of some linux distro, there is always <a href="http://torrindex.com/" rel="nofollow">http://torrindex.com/</a>

What's the real purpose of shutting sites like TPB down? People won't rush to stores to get the movies they want to see if they can't download them.

Good strategy. People aren't going to care about the politics of file sharing until they can't get what they want for free anymore. Taking the Pirate Bay down is the first step towards organized dissent that removes the laws that the media companies are relying on in the first place.<p>Also, an injunction without oral arguments? That will last, oh, maybe a few hours...

I always see sites that decide either they allow everything or they shut down. Why is obfuscation never an option?<p>What if you had separate sites dedicated to each of the following steps:<p>1. Start a bt site, advertised as a site for baking recipes. Seed the site with tons of existing videos on baking, to increase legitimacy.<p>2. Create a translator site for each baking-related keyword. For example, "muffins" = "Lost".<p>3. Write a browser plug-in that translates the baking site into the real torrent site.<p>Who would one sue then? Would it not work simply because the __AA would constantly request torrents to be taken down?<p>I know TPB has a political agenda, so they might not want to do this.. but sites like mininova could have.

latest from www.twitter.com/tpb <a href="http://newteevee.com/2010/05/17/the-pirate-bay-forced-offline-trading-continues/" rel="nofollow">http://newteevee.com/2010/05/17/the-pirate-bay-forced-offlin...</a><p>There are many torrent spiders/indexers that host torrents from many websites. e.g. <a href="http://www.torrentz.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.torrentz.com/</a> and nearly all torrents use DHT and multiple trackers. Taking 1 site down temporarily doesn't affect anything.

Torrentfreak seems to be down, too. Just getting a blank page. Edit: looks like it was just my ISP.<p>Anyway, here's the Guardian:<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/17/pirate-bay-offline" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/17/pirate...</a>

If I remember correctly the original TPB guys claimed that servers are out of their control now, which is why they can't take it down. But now I read there's "Managing Director Sven Olaf Kamphuis". Is there some official ownership of TPB again?

They need to switch to a complete distributed architecture. Where the site, the tracker, everything is hosted by users. This way, no corporate tools can target them.<p>The "how" is much more complicated though.

Call me crazy, but I dislike piracy. Back when I was at my first startup, we found that people pirated our own software, and it stunk.<p>So I don't want to pirate other intellectual property.

And now they are back.