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Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Pirate Bay down - but temporarily
Pirate Bay site sinks, Swedish police raid its ISP
Oddly, the two events aren't related
Posted in Security, 2nd October 2012 00:42 GMT
Rumors are flying after the Pirate Bay's website took a dive on Monday just as news broke of a raid by Swedish police on its hosting company PRQ – but the group says the two facts are not related.
"Dear internet. We have not been raided. We are not shutting down. We like turtles, waffles and you," the group said on its Facebook page. "Sorry for not fulfilling your pirate needs tonight. It's ok if you cheat on us with another site, just once. We know that you still love us, deep down in your cursed pirate heart."
The site's problems appear to stem from a power outage on its servers rather than the boys in blue making their call. So far, the site has been down for around nine hours, and internet users looking to get their dose of purloined files will have to go to other providers.
While it is true that the Pirate Bay's Swedish hosting company did receive a visit from local police, this does not appear to be the cause of the outage. In an interview with Nyheter24, the current owner of hosting firm PRQ Mikael Viborg said that the police had taken four servers, but at this point it isn't clear what they contained.
"PRQ is known to host the things that no one else wants to host, and not ask any questions. It can be any of those that are targeted. Until we get more details about the servers, I will not speculate on it," Viborg said.
In comparison with some of PRQ's customer base, the Pirate Bay is about as offensive as puppies frolicking in beige flowers. The ISP, which is run by two of the Pirate Bay's founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, believes in hosting all content, no matter what its interests, and as such carries content for groups such as South Park's favorite pederasts, the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
Cofounder Svartholm himself won't know too much about this, of course. After a lengthy period of being incommunicado, Svartholm was tracked down in Cambodia, where he was arrested by the local policeand deported to Sweden, where has will be facing charges related to the hacking of IT consultancy business Logica. ®
"Dear internet. We have not been raided. We are not shutting down. We like turtles, waffles and you," the group said on its Facebook page. "Sorry for not fulfilling your pirate needs tonight. It's ok if you cheat on us with another site, just once. We know that you still love us, deep down in your cursed pirate heart."
"PRQ is known to host the things that no one else wants to host, and not ask any questions. It can be any of those that are targeted. Until we get more details about the servers, I will not speculate on it," Viborg said.
In comparison with some of PRQ's customer base, the Pirate Bay is about as offensive as puppies frolicking in beige flowers. The ISP, which is run by two of the Pirate Bay's founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, believes in hosting all content, no matter what its interests, and as such carries content for groups such as South Park's favorite pederasts, the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
Cofounder Svartholm himself won't know too much about this, of course. After a lengthy period of being incommunicado, Svartholm was tracked down in Cambodia, where he was arrested by the local policeand deported to Sweden, where has will be facing charges related to the hacking of IT consultancy business Logica. ®
Monday, 3 September 2012
Pirate Bay co-founder, arrested in Cambodia
By ComputerworldUK reporter | Computerworld UK | 03 September 12
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the Swedish co-founder of the Pirate Bay file-sharing has been arrested in Cambodia, where the authorities are considering an extradition request over copyright laws.
Warg, 27, who has been living in Cambodia for several years, was originally sentenced to 12 months jail by the Swedish authorities in 2009.
"We had a request from Sweden to make an arrest as he had committed cybercrime there. We don't have an extradition treaty with Sweden but there are other ways to do it, police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told Reuters.
Warg's arrest was originally reported in Cambodian website, Khmer440.com
UK ISPs began blocking The Pirate Bay this summer. In June BT followed TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Sky Broadband, Everything Everywhere, BE and O2, which banned access to the popular file-sharing site in response to the court order made in April.
Read more: http://www.computerworlduk.com/#ixzz25Qrfh04a
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Friday, 8 June 2012
Pirate Bay blocked by more ISP's
O2 and Be Broadband are latest to block The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is campaigning against proposed EU anti-piracy treaty
O2 is set to block its customers from accessing file-sharing site The Pirate Bay from 0001 BST on Friday, the internet service provider has said.
The move means customers of Be Broadband, a subsidiary of O2, will also be blocked from the site.
The ISP is the latest to fall in line following a High Court order in April.
A judge ruled that TPB was facilitating copyright infringement by providing links to download pirated content.
'Obliged to comply'
In a statement, O2 said: "The main UK internet providers were ordered by the high court to block access to specific IP addresses and URLs used by The Pirate Bay website.
"We have no option but to comply with this order and will be doing so overnight."
Be Broadband posted a message about the blocking measures on its company blog.
It said: "Our parent company was one of the named ISPs so we are obliged to comply.
"We wouldn't chose to do this voluntarily but we need to comply with UK laws just like any UK business. We're aware of the concerns voiced by members about the broader issue."
TalkTalk is now the last remaining ISP featured in the court order not to have implemented a block on the Swedish-based site.
BT, which was given extra time to make necessary arrangements, told the BBC it would make an announcement regarding TPB in "due course".
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