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The Pirate Bay torrent site was just shut down. That's the place I went to DL TV shows I couldn't see. It sucks, but it was bound to happen. if you go to the main page of the site[url]thepiratebay.org[/url] there's info. I guess the swedish police raided them. Oh well, another one bites the dust.
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In their native Sweden, ThePirateBay.org enjoyed a level of immunity from copyright prosecution rarely seen in the file-sharing world. Often defiant in the face of those wishing to enforce their intellectual property rights, ThePirateBay.org would go on to become one of the premier BitTorrent indexing and tracking sites.
As one of the largest trackers, ThePirateBay.org largely replaced the demise of the SuprNova.org search engine. SuprNova.org met its demise in late 2004, when it was under pressure from the entertainment industry to shut it operation down. Conversely, such pressure has been ineffective against ThePiratebay.org.
When such political pressure fails, the use of force is typically the next course of action. In a move that many thought would never come, Slyck.com have learned ThePirateBay.org is currently being raided by Swedish police.
“…The police right now is taking all of our servers, to check if there is a crime there or not (they are actually not sure),†ThePirateBay.org spokesperson “brokep†told Slyck.com.
The seizure of ThePirateBay.org’s entire server farm will guarantee this BitTorrent tracker will remain offline until the police complete their investigation. Whether this will keep ThePirateBay.org offline indefinitely is another matter.
“We are not sure when it will return, but we are moving it to another country if necessary,†brokep said.
According to The Pirate Party, a Swedish copyright reform organization, the raid also seized Piratbyrån's (the Pirate Bureau) servers. In addition, The Pirate Party reports "...the servers where located in a protected area, to which the police had no legal right to enter..." Approximately 50 police participated in the raid, which placed into custody two PirateBay.org personnel.
The premature departure of ThePirateBay.org marks a significant turning point in the BitTorrent community. Although it's not currently known what, if any, entertainment entity is behind this raid, failure to secure ThePirateBay.org's permanent removal will only bolster this tracker’s position of defiance
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Athletic Supporter wrote:
try torrentspy
I've found this one to be better for tv shows anyways. Oh and haven't these people learned that the second you shut down one site, a dozen more pop up to take it's place?
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I tend to avoid the obvious BT sites. It seems like if everyone is talking about it, the authorities are clearly going to shut them down first. I can find everything I need on relatively small, private trackers.
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Friday, June 2, 2006; Posted: 4:01 p.m. EDT (20:01 GMT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- The Web site of Sweden's national police was shut down after a hacker attack that investigators on Friday said could be a retaliation for a crackdown on a popular file-sharing site called The Pirate Bay.
Meanwhile, the government faced allegations that police had acted under pressure from U.S. authorities when they targeted the file-sharing site in raids earlier this week.
The police Web site was closed late Thursday after a so-called denial of service attack, in which hackers overload a single network by directing massive traffic to the site, police spokesman Lars Lindahl said. He did not rule out that the attack was linked to the police crackdown on The Pirate Bay on Wednesday.
"It is quite possible, but that is only speculation," Lindahl said, adding a criminal investigation had been launched into the hacker attack.
In Wednesday's crackdown on illegal file-sharing, police said they raided about 10 locations in central Sweden and detained three men linked to The Pirate Bay on suspicions of violating copyright laws. The three Swedes were later released but could still face charges, Stockholm police spokesman Ulf Goranzon said.
The raids were applauded by the Motion Picture Association of America, which claims movie studios lost U.S. $6.1 billion (€4.7 billion) to piracy last year.
An opposition lawmaker called on Parliament's Constitution Committee to investigate the case after a report on public broadcaster SVT suggested the Justice Ministry ordered the raids on a U.S. request. Under Sweden's Constitution, ministers are not allowed to direct the work of the police.
"We want to find out whether pressure from the U.S. government was behind the action," Center Party spokesman Johan Linander was quoted as saying by newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
On Friday The Pirate Bay site displayed a message saying it would be "up and fully functional within a day or two."
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