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Thepiratebay.com domain has been suspended
- aaronem 11y agoTPB had a .com?
- jakob223 11y agoIt just redirected to .se https://web.archive.org/web/20150315015705/http://www.thepiratebay.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150315015705/http://www.thepir...
- cenal 11y agoFinally a casualty of those emails that domain owners get where we are "required" to verify our information for ICANN.
- Natsu 11y agoI wonder if (when?) someone will make a program that auto-validates the ICANN emails and ignores all spam.
- trentmb 11y agoI hope not- that seems like the perfect balance between invasive information gathering and sane validation measures.
- realityking 11y agoI know a number of domain resellers who do it automatically so their customer "are not confused".
- LeoPanthera 11y agoI haven't used the .com in ages. They have a bunch of domains, I think. .vg springs to mind
- staunch 11y agoDNS will be decentralized in the future. This will be one of the motivating examples.
- alanpost 11y agoHow could DNS become more decentralized? You already have your choice of TLDs, registrars, ISPs, and software. If that's not good enough you can host a public key under .onion.
- nly 11y agoNamecoin basically.
- kuschku 11y agoAnd how do I get my specific domain name that I want to have via namecoin? How do I get rid of illegal domain squatters? There are good reasons for centralized systems.
- hellbanner 11y agoTo get it, you have to register first. What is an illegal domain squatter? Someone using your business name? Namespaces are bound to collide.. think of all the JohnSmiths who want JohnSmith.com
- kuschku 11y agoSo, the solution to a namespace collision is "first come, first serve"?
- imaginenore 11y agoDNS is not decentralized at all. It has a center - ICANN (organizational, legal) and the root servers (physical), which gives one party a near absolute control. Namecoin is decentralized.
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- gooserock 11y agoDoes this have anything to do with the fact that CISPA was signed into law today?
- superuser2 11y agoNo, this has nothing to do with companies sharing information about breaches.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoIf this is all you think CISA is then I think you should do a little more research.
- superuser2 11y agoGiven that that is EFF's description of the bill, nope, I think you should.
- andreyf 11y agoYou mean CISA.
- jokoon 11y agoI wish there was a clear list of all those "cyber laws" attempts, with dates, differences, histories, what their strategy were. I've lost count of those attempted laws.
- andreyf 11y agoThere are a lot of those, but only two for information sharing, as far as I'm aware. CISPA failed, and CISA replaced it. One difference is described by tptacek here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763837
- JupiterMoon 11y ago
- gruez 11y ago> This domain has been suspended for one of the following reasons: > * This is a new domain name and you have not yet validated your contact details. > * This domain has recently been modified or transferred and you have not yet validated your contact details. > * An annual validation email was sent to your contact details but you have not responded. I don't see what the fuss is about
- mindslight 11y agoWhen names are routinely erased for political reasons, why would one ever give credence to the official story?
- andreyf 11y agoIs organizing the violation of copyright laws political speech, or do you mean something else by "political reasons"?
- mindslight 11y agoI made no mention of "political speech". Preventing people from communicating amongst themselves is a political action.
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- venomsnake 11y agoCan you explain how giving a checksum of a file is violation of copyright?
- rtpg 11y agoJust thought of this, but isn't it conspiracy? Kind of the only way to arrest someone before doing something.
- wut42 11y agoThe same happened with thepiratebay.org last week.
- hasenj 11y agoIf you google "the pirate bay" usually the first link will be the working one. Currently it seems to be the .se domain, but I just tried it and redirected to .vg
- eco 11y agoHas anyone seen ICANN suspend a domain for invalid contact details before?
- rdl 11y agoMany times.
- swalberg 11y agoIf I'm reading this right, the registrar suspended the domain because the contact details weren't validated by the customer. It wasn't ICANN. It seems to be up to the registrar -- other registrars I use send an email that requires no action if the details are correct. But one I used previously suspended a domain of ours because the guy that registered it ignored the email.
- Destitute 11y agoI don't know about ICANN, but I have had domains suspended for not confirming email addresses on file in the WHOIS on a yearly basis.
- tyingq 11y agoYes. Especially when it's manually reported. https://forms.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/whois/inaccuracy-form https://forms.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/w...
- yoshamano 11y agoI've always found their .onion domain to be the most reliable. http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/
- jlgaddis 11y agoHow would verify that this, indeed, the "official" TPB .onion site?
- viraptor 11y agoHow would you verify the .se domain in the first place? I think both are not something we can verify.
- heinrich5991 11y agoProbably by going to the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay.
- viraptor 11y agoAnd how does wikipedia know who the .se belongs to? What I'm getting at is - mostly we don't know who runs it. The best we can know is that danger people run onion and se if they cross link to each other.
- heinrich5991 11y agoThe .se domain is well-known, even through word of mouth. Thus, I can be fairly certain that it is actually a domain that belongs to the project. I have no such information about the onion domain.
- teddyh 11y agoThat is the address which is/was used by the PirateBrowser (a TorBrowser variant), which was promoted by The Pirate Bay itself.
- rathish_g 11y agoOops, I haven't validated any domains that I own in over 5 years.
- blfr 11y agoYou probably have. Many registrars only send you an email that requires no action if your contact info is up to date. OVH does this for example.
- liviu 11y agoSame thing for the http://piratebrowser.com http://piratebrowser.com
- bbrian 11y agohttp://pirateproxy.nl/ http://pirateproxy.nl/ is what I use in Ireland, due to court ordered blocks, and it's working – as evidenced by the Alice in Chains box set I just downloaded that I once bought on CD and have no idea what happened to in the meantime!
- binoyxj 11y agoMore on this here: https://torrentfreak.com/seven-pirate-bay-domains-have-been-suspended-151215/ https://torrentfreak.com/seven-pirate-bay-domains-have-been-...
- roddux 11y agoI haven't been able to access the .com/.se/etc in years, since it was blocked in ~2012 by most ISPs here in the UK. That said, proxies are but two clicks away and faster than connecting to a VPN.
- DanBC 11y agoSome of the proxies are pretty scary though.
- jokoon 11y agoYeah I really wonders who runs them, seems like it has been a golden opportunity for scammers and other malware crowds.
- xenophonf 11y agoGiven the amount of malware I downloaded from warez BBSes back in the day, I wouldn't be surprised.
- davb 11y agoAs are some VPNs. It's concerning that so many people route all their traffic (when connected) over some unknown third parties network. Default gateway and server pushed DNS. Only HSTS and certificate pinning would prevent their traffic being sniffed or tampered with.
- wrong_internet 11y agoHuh? Unless your endpoint peers directly with your ISP, you always route over unknown third party networks.
- davb 11y agoTrue but it's much easier for a malicious player to set up a VPN service selling cheap a anonymity as a way to gather MITM targets than it is to set up an ISP or transit provider.
- jokoon 11y agoTPB has been a target for a long time now, one of their founder said he was starting to give up. Anyway there are many better alternatives, although I'm a little worried about who is running them, but I guess they can be trusted... Anyhow, TOR will still be a safe haven for torrents, and even if it isn't, there are many decentralized techs which are being ready to serve torrents.
- wut42 11y ago>one of their founder said he was starting to give up Nobody of the original team (tiamo, brokep, ...) are still working on TPB. They've given up long time ago (at the time of the trial). >although I'm a little worried about who is running them, but I guess they can be trusted TPB is now managed by someone else, and they've as shady as the the others. >TOR will still be a safe haven for torrents Tor isn't good for p2p, see: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go... >there are many decentralized techs which are being ready to serve torrents You can really easily build your own search engines by listening/crawling the DHT.
- jug 11y agoFrom a pirate's perspective, Tor can be useful for BitTorrent sites, except for sending the actual BitTorrent traffic over it. I think the greatest problem here isn't that file sharers keep getting caught en masse so that we have that kind of need, but the risk and effort necessary to even run a P2P site. Tor in itself, as an anonymizing network, can help a lot there as long as you don't mess up. That is, as a .torrent file store and search engine.
- awqrre 11y agoUsually, the ICANN suspension pages that I've seen look more like this [1], is this fake? [1] http://coastnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IcanSuspensionNotice.jpg http://coastnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IcanSusp...
- kisstheblade 11y agoWell this doesn't matter much. You can download your torrents from other sites. But an interesting new development has occured where I live (and what I hear in other europena countries as well). Lawyers get the rights holders permissions to enforce their copyrights, and then they connect to the torrent swarms and start collecting IP addressess. Then they get a court order for the ISP's to release the IP owner's personal information. Then they send a shakedown letter, were they threaten to sue you if you don't pay up 600 euros or some such sum. It's "nice" to know that it is that easy to get ISP's to hand over customer information. So, always use protection (VPN) when torrenting, kids! :)
- myztic 11y agoNew development? Actually they have been doing that probably all around the world for years now. A friend of mine in Germany also got such a letter once and wrote something back along the lines of "Wasn't me, don't know what you are talking about" and he never heard from them again. They try to profit from the fear of everyday people who rather pay up front, because they don't want to risk that the case goes to court, no matter how unlikely this might be. And it's even understandable, ordinary folks probably really panic when they see such a letter and all the legal talk and underlying threats that are made. It's as despicable as patent trolling. First avoid such a situation: -) use vpn if possible (check with their policies, whether they allow torrent traffic or maybe they ban it from certain servers, preferably use a provider that does not log) -) quite simply never download newer material with big companies behind them from public trackers. most of the times these letters regard the newest Hollywood movies, a current album by a big pop star or the newest game everyone has been waiting for, not Taxi Driver, The Godfather Trilogy, Quake 3 or the weird Japanese pop band from the 80s you are into and if you are in such a situation: -) consult your lawyer or search on the Internet how to properly respond, do not just pay!
- JamyDev 11y agoVery interesting (Defcon) talk about a similar store from the owner of textfiles.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY
- michaelbuddy 11y agoNever knew .com was used. Was always .org and about 12 other country suffixes
- Aaronik 11y agoThis could matter if it fell into the wrong hands. It'd be a great trojan delivery mechanism for people unfortunate enough to download and open something from the site.