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You just gave me some serious deja-vu. Who remembers when TPB were going to buy Sealand in order to host trackers out of the reach of authorities?

diggan 6y ago
Turns out buying Sealand in order to continue to run ThePirateBay was over-engineering, as ThePirateBay is still alive and running today, albeit in a slightly different form than before.
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  For now? It seems like a lot of torrent info sites have been closed down (just from reading https://torrentfreak.com/ https://torrentfreak.com/, maybe more pop up than get taken down?).
  - diggan 6y ago
    Don't know. Swedish police (et al) have been trying forever to shut it down, and while they have momentarily succeeded, it always seems to come back up. I'm no longer familiar with the architecture of TPB, but they seem to be running things in a much more decentralized fashion nowadays, where bunch of independent sites (at least independent domains) are running a frontend with the same database content. Unsure how that works behind the scenes. But rest assure, you can always find a domain which is not blocked and that is mirroring the content of the proper TPB. In my case, thepiratebay.org is blocked by my ISP, but thepiratebay.party is just a few hours behind (confirmed via VPN) Compare the following pages for example (if thepiratebay.org works for you) - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=user:dauphong https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=user:dauphong - https://thepiratebay.party/user/dauphong/ https://thepiratebay.party/user/dauphong/
dylan604 6y ago
Isn't Sealand just a couple of underwater charges planted by some clandestine operatives away from not existing?
- bhickey 6y ago
  You and I could conquer Sealand next week if we really wanted to.
  - phs318u 6y ago
    Maybe, maybe not. https://narratively.com/the-plot-against-the-principality-of-sealand/ https://narratively.com/the-plot-against-the-principality-of...
- giantrobot 6y ago
  Sealand is a bad storm away from not existing.
athms 6y ago
>...buy Sealand in order to host trackers out of the reach of authorities? Sealand is within the territorial waters of the UK. No sovereign nation has recognized Sealand's independence from the UK. Even if one did, according to international law, artificial islands and structures don't possess the status of islands.

diggan 6y ago

Turns out buying Sealand in order to continue to run ThePirateBay was over-engineering, as ThePirateBay is still alive and running today, albeit in a slightly different form than before.

pbhjpbhj 6y ago
For now? It seems like a lot of torrent info sites have been closed down (just from reading https://torrentfreak.com/ https://torrentfreak.com/, maybe more pop up than get taken down?).
- diggan 6y ago
  Don't know. Swedish police (et al) have been trying forever to shut it down, and while they have momentarily succeeded, it always seems to come back up. I'm no longer familiar with the architecture of TPB, but they seem to be running things in a much more decentralized fashion nowadays, where bunch of independent sites (at least independent domains) are running a frontend with the same database content. Unsure how that works behind the scenes. But rest assure, you can always find a domain which is not blocked and that is mirroring the content of the proper TPB. In my case, thepiratebay.org is blocked by my ISP, but thepiratebay.party is just a few hours behind (confirmed via VPN) Compare the following pages for example (if thepiratebay.org works for you) - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=user:dauphong https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=user:dauphong - https://thepiratebay.party/user/dauphong/ https://thepiratebay.party/user/dauphong/

dylan604 6y ago

Isn't Sealand just a couple of underwater charges planted by some clandestine operatives away from not existing?

bhickey 6y ago
You and I could conquer Sealand next week if we really wanted to.
- phs318u 6y ago
  Maybe, maybe not. https://narratively.com/the-plot-against-the-principality-of-sealand/ https://narratively.com/the-plot-against-the-principality-of...
giantrobot 6y ago
Sealand is a bad storm away from not existing.

athms 6y ago

>...buy Sealand in order to host trackers out of the reach of authorities? Sealand is within the territorial waters of the UK. No sovereign nation has recognized Sealand's independence from the UK. Even if one did, according to international law, artificial islands and structures don't possess the status of islands.