Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here’s What We Know • Hacker News Board

Re: Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here’s What We Know

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Post by dang » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 2:24 AM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8724760

Re: Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here’s What We Know

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Post by Multics » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 2:28 AM UTC

aarohmankad wrote: post #10

It's back online at http://piratebay.cr/ , but I heard it's having trouble handling the surge of traffic from the news.

The new location is updated on TPB Wikipedia page — for others' future reference!

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Post by fedya » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 2:31 AM UTC

pronoiac wrote: post #11

I'm surprised at this - doesn't the Swedish Pirate Party have some ties to the Pirate Bay, and some political power?

I think their power is a tad less than that of the US :)

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Post by chrissnell » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 2:32 AM UTC

DigitalSea wrote: post #6

The overreach that companies with big pockets like Sony Pictures Entertainment have when it comes to enforcing their ownership rights over content they own scares me. It's 2014 and a company like Sony can get a swat and forensics team to take down a website hosted in a completely different country. Just trying to get your local police department to find a stolen car or help you recover a stolen phone can be struggle…

How is it that they've been able to maintain a .se domain? You'd think that Swedish authorities could get that seized.

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Post by sergiotapia » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 3:10 AM UTC

eugeneionesco wrote: post #15

sergiotapia wrote: post #12

I can't help but think that adding ads to their website led to their downfall. How can they claim they aren't profiting off stolen content if they are riddled with ads?

What stolen content can you find on their servers? Google can be accused of the same thing, by the way.

Meh, that's a really lame cop out. Technically it makes sense, but morally, not really.

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Post by fmavituna » Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 11:37 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #14

It would kind of be nice if piracy could be temporarily paused, just so we could actually see the economic impact. I imagine theater revenues would not magically increase and the movie execs would go to war on their next imaginary enemy. Unlicensed HDCP strippers or something.

Not exactly piracy stopped or something but here is an example a successful DRM that stopped crackers for a month of two for couple of games and the results of how it effected games' sales: http://www.dsogaming.com/news/report-denuvo-drm-system-has-b...