Earlier today (9 Dec), the Pirate Bay servers became unresponsive worldwide. The cause was later found to be a police raid by the Stockolm IP enforcement division. Personally and despite this being a first for TPB (other downtimes were due to hardware failures) I doubt that it'll last. This also seems to be the general consensus among the community. I would imagine that there is a regularly updated backup of the site for mirroring just for this situation.
[Ed's Note: As at 10 Dec 0900 UTC the site was still down.]
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(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday December 10 2014, @01:09PM
So much for being redundant and not reliant on one single point of failure.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by canopic jug on Wednesday December 10 2014, @01:43PM
According to Sunde, the site should stay down [torrentfreak.com] as it has long since served its purpose. That was to bring bittorrent to the public and it did so. Now even Linux distros are distributed by torrent. Apparently the original plan was to pull the plug on TPB after 10 years anyway.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Wednesday December 10 2014, @01:49PM
So what you're saying is: "Didn't want that server anyway"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:24PM
He hasn't been connected to TPB for a long time. They sold it off years ago.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @02:07PM
That sounds like lame post hoc excuses after bragging about not being able to be taken down. If that was really their plan they would have actually done it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:32PM
He actually mentioned the same thing in interviews from a few years back. Nice try though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:59PM
Doesn't change the fact that it's still a post hoc excuses. Oh and if he did say this why not link it so I can read what he said in full?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @04:25PM
> Doesn't change the fact that it's still a post hoc excuses.
If saying it before TPB was raided still makes it post hoc, what, your mind, would qualify as a priori then?
> Oh and if he did say this why not link it so I can read what he said in full?
TFA contains a link to an article from 2013 where 4 other Piratbyrån founders all said basically the same thing. His opinion is clearly neither new nor unique.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 11 2014, @08:03AM
A slashdot-worthy thread if there ever was one. Are you being deliberately dense? Either of your two sentences alone would be just plain dumb. Together they are staggering.
(Score: 1) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday December 11 2014, @02:06AM
I wouldn't say that people shouldn't care. True, the torrent site itself can be easily replaced, but this is still censorship, and censorship is wrong.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @02:27PM
Since they went to magnet links the entirety of TPB is about 90MB zipped. They are basically a load balancer in front of a bunch of virtual machines hosted in "the cloud." It sounds like they all the cops got was the load balancer.
Seems like the next step in the evolution would be to figure out a way to host it as a torrent itself with DHT doing the load balancing. Then it could be reduced to a single computer that takes care of accepting submissions (both new torrents and comments). Just need a way to "chain" those updates to the original torrent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @06:52PM
good idea.
the most popular torrent should be the collective mhashes of tpb anyways.
problem is that there is no way to pick the mhash (autogenerate) and update a existing mhash.
if you add a mhash to a txt file and then turn it into a torrent it will itself get a new mhash : (
example: we have a "all.mhashes.txt" file with all mhashes that tpb knows about at the date: 1.1.2014
now a new torrent gets created the next day (2.1.2014) and it will have a mhash too.
how do we add that new torrent (and its mhash) to "all.mhashes.txt"?
if we add it, it is a new torrent and thus also it will have a new mhash also.
there's no way to "control" the future from the past.
you cannot say: "tomorrow look for the mhash xyz" because it doesn't exist yet and you cannot pick/define it.
thus the mhash string/number always originates from one source/ip : ( if no precautions are taken, like writing it on a postcard : ]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @08:09PM
got this on a postcard : )
http://pastebin.com/JeB5RPX9 [pastebin.com]
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srsly m0r0ns:
eztv.it at least should be [example]:
http://eztvonion12345.onion [eztvonion12345.onion]
with subdirectories:
http://eztvonion12345.onion/game.of.clowns/season1 [eztvonion12345.onion]
and each one has a "hash.txt" file:
http://eztvonion12345.onion/game.of.clowns/season1/hash.txt [eztvonion12345.onion]
and the "hash.txt" has one magnet-link inside that downloads another text-file
which has all magnets for "game.of.clowns" session one:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:12345........&dn=game.of.clowns.s01.e01.avi
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:12346........&dn=game.of.clowns.s01.e02.avi
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:12347........&dn=game.of.clowns.s01.e03.avi
and the file:
http://eztvonion12345.onion/game.of.clowns/season1/hash.txt [eztvonion12345.onion]
get's replaced/updated once there's a new clown episode!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @01:50PM
this being a first for TPB (other downtimes were due to hardware failures)
what? [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Wednesday December 10 2014, @09:03PM
My mistake, I guess it was a second. But given that I generally only get news from word of mouth if it's not on a site like this I guess crappy recollection is to be expected.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Wednesday December 10 2014, @02:21PM
EZTV was down yesterday as well. Anyone know if it's back up, and if it was just a coincidence? I'm at work and can't check currently.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @04:57PM
I guess it was taken down as well
http://www.geek.com/news/the-pirate-bay-and-eztv-raided-and-shut-down-but-will-they-stay-dead-1611358/ [geek.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @02:27PM
...through the judicial system.
When will we grow up already?
(Score: 0) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday December 10 2014, @02:27PM
It's now at http://piratebay.cr [piratebay.cr]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @02:46PM
That doesn't even resolve for me.
http://thepiratebay.cr/ [thepiratebay.cr] resolves but does not connect.
(Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:14PM
Doh! I meant what you said. It worked last night, but I get a web server cache error or something now.
(Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:17PM
I was just able to get to the homepage (again). I think they're up but unstable or overloaded.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:50PM
(Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday December 10 2014, @05:50PM
Mod parent up, he's right ... it's a (very well-done) fake.
(Score: 2) by francois.barbier on Wednesday December 10 2014, @10:48PM
According to this Reddit thread, http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2ovr78/now_that_the_pirate_bay_is_based_at_a_cr_domain/cmqxqw4: [reddit.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:12PM
www.thepiratebay.ee
Works fine, searching and everything..
(Score: 1) by slash2phar on Wednesday December 10 2014, @03:53PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bitshifter on Wednesday December 10 2014, @06:08PM
www.thepiratebay.ee is a fake.
Almost perfect copy until you want to get the link - then it asks for money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12 2014, @01:28AM
I didn't observe that when I tried it this morning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 11 2014, @02:59AM
It did not ask me for any money, but serves up viruses pretty good!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 10 2014, @04:08PM
Does anyone have a mirror site? Can we Kickstart a distribution node on the Moon or in orbit that replaces terrestrial vagaries? Can we distribute thumb-drives as modern-day Samizdat?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 10 2014, @04:17PM
https://kickass.so/ [kickass.so]