In December Swedish authorities shut down piratebay.se at the command of the Rights Alliance. Shortly thereafter, Oldpiratebay.org came online, thanks to IsoHunt. Now it seems Oldpiratebay.org is offline, with searches returning errors. The *AA's strike again?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 21 2015, @08:13AM
isohunt.to powers oldpiratebay.org and it's still online, maybe they're just updating some code bc it was a pretty rudimentary implementation for the initial roll out
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 21 2015, @03:58PM
Non story.
https://oldpiratebay.org/ [oldpiratebay.org] Is up as I type this.
(Score: 2) by ticho on Wednesday January 21 2015, @08:34AM
...or is it just rumormongers at it again?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 21 2015, @09:36AM
Someone (TorrentFreak?) was able to find more than three hundred sites running The Open Bay.
Anyone who understands *NIX could easily configure "The Personal Bay" by installing The Open Bay on their own personal box. You won't have to worry about takedown requests, or getting sued for running the server.
Where you could really win, and make some money, would be were you to make "The Personal Bay" a Drag-n-Drop installer for OS X, as well as whatever passes for an easy-to-use application for Windows.
A problem with The Open Bay is that it doesn't include user comments, which are often value - "This contains a virus", or "Stuck at 98%". I think someone has archived the comments but I don't have the link handy.
The Open Bay doesn't have a way to submit new torrents. One way to do that would be to run a Tor Hidden Service that permitted only the uploads of new torrents, for bulk redistribution - that is, it would not be an interactive service. No comments, no moderation, low overhead. Perhaps once per day you could distribute new torrents that The Personal Bay users could retrieve via an Onionized cURL or wget.
I'd love to write this myself but I have far too much on my plate right now, given that my fiduciary duty to Disney is to maximize shareholder value.
(Score: 4, Funny) by deimios on Wednesday January 21 2015, @09:58AM
You could use their official name: Music And Film Industry Association of America (MAFIAA)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by mcgrew on Wednesday January 21 2015, @01:34PM
Whoever modded the above comment "troll" is the one who is trolling. Come on, guys, that's terrible moderation. This isn't exactly a pro-MAFIAA site, you know.
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(Score: 2) by gallondr00nk on Wednesday January 21 2015, @11:18AM
I imagine there would have been far more nauseating chest thumping in the press if they were behind it. Besides, it looks like TPB is making a return. [torrentfreak.com]
The copyright industry have been practically writing their own laws the last few years, from three strikes to widespread censorship. It's amusing that despite all that they still can't keep the torrent sites down.
I'd like to feel like the tide is turning [torrentfreak.com], but I'm honestly not sure if it will.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 21 2015, @12:10PM
Premature hi-jaculation!