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The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin

232 points by m_for_monkey 14y ago

sp332 14y ago
I need a recording of this, I can't read it with the proper cadence.
- danking00 14y ago
  I think it might be in the cadence of "99 Problems" by Jay-Z, but, admittedly, I still find it difficult to read it.
- bittersweet 14y ago
  This is N.W.A. - 100 miles and running http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUbgPYIrU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUbgPYIrU4
gl0wa 14y ago
At least in some countries... In the UK we have: http://cl.ly/image/3m2C40432q0u http://cl.ly/image/3m2C40432q0u
- asselinpaul 14y ago
  use Tor
  - icebraining 14y ago
    Easier to use one of the many proxies, like the one run by the Pirate Party: https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/ https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
    - warp 14y ago
      Indeed. For anyone in .nl whose providers were forced to block them: http://fucktimkuik.org http://fucktimkuik.org
  - ot86 14y ago
    Here's a big proxy list: http://proxybay.info http://proxybay.info
- justincormack 14y ago
  I don't. Turns out its because I get it on ipv6, and my tunnel terminates in the US I guess (or they don't filter ipv6)
- jakeonthemove 14y ago
  Yep, in Belgium you get: http://imgur.com/7qAwh http://imgur.com/7qAwh I'm surprised - I wonder if it's the same thing in other EU countries?
  - sgift 14y ago
    At least not all of them - I can see the page without problems (Germany).
  - andreasvc 14y ago
    The Netherlands as well.
    - jakeonthemove 14y ago
      Then I believe Luxembourg blocks it, too...
  - w1ntermute 14y ago
    Try https://piratereverse.info/ https://piratereverse.info/
  - depr 14y ago
    fax, really?
    - jakeonthemove 14y ago
      Shows how much they care :-)
- rwmj 14y ago
  Works fine for me. I'm using enta.net for access, and it's completely unfiltered as far as I'm aware.
  - toyg 14y ago
    Lol, Enta. I bailed on them when they cut my connection after one of those silly letters from US lawyers, because my wife had downloaded "Nurse Betty" here in UK. Now i'm on Virgin, on a much faster connection. piratebay is "blocked" but i just use one of the 99 mirrors around and life is good.
- tomjen3 14y ago
  Same shit in Denmark. Oh was, now I run Google DNS.
- gglanzani 14y ago
  Here's a shell script (last line Mac-only) to open the pirate bay, regardless of the block (at least in the Netherlands).
  - bartligthart 14y ago
    (http://fucktimkuik.org http://fucktimkuik.org)
- toyg 14y ago
  Use http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk
kisstheblade 14y ago
Yeah it's "blocked" in Finland too (I thought this was a free country... But this is what you get when you elect friggin ex. Miss Finland to be the Minister handling these issues! Stupid is as stupid does, too bad the woting population seems pretty stupid in general if/when the elected representatives are a reflection of them). http://www.piraattilahti.org http://www.piraattilahti.org works fine though (a Proxy) :)
mattvot 14y ago
Proxy http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/222 http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/222
Garbage 14y ago
For the people, who can't access the direct site, here is the text of the blog: http://pastebin.com/DQLYkTnL http://pastebin.com/DQLYkTnL
- vidarh 14y ago
  Or just go to: http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog (proxy operated by the UK Pirate Party)
klrr 14y ago
I don't support illegal activity, but I believe this is a quest of freedom, not for getting stuff free as in free beer.
- duairc 14y ago
  Why don't you support illegal activity?
  - why-el 14y ago
    I don't know why you are downvoted. This is a valid question.
  - hmottestad 14y ago
    I'm not the OP, but here is my opinion. As a rule of thumb I don't support illegal activities. Why would I? Most of the laws I agree with, like no murder/rape/robbery. However some laws I'm against. Like the public drinking ban in Norway, why can't I have a beer by the lake? And on the topic of media industries vs. file sharing. I haven't really made up my mind. Especially after the media industry brought tanks and fighter jets to a knife fight.
    - jlgreco 14y ago
      There are so many laws, I don't know how you could possibly say in an informed manner that you agree with most of them. Making ethical decisions is easy for the majority of us, but our knowledge of the law is universally poor. I don't see why we should factor the law into discussions of ethics; it doesn't do anything to simplify the discussion.
      - dandelany 14y ago
        > There are so many laws, I don't know how you could possibly say in an informed manner that you agree with most of them. Oh, come on now. You can be informed on the ones that matter to you the most, and the ones which are most commonly broken, which says a lot about the society you live in. It's not that hard. > I don't see why we should factor the law into discussions of ethics Because laws, in many or most cases, reflect the moral or ethical views of a large number of people, or at least they did at the time they were passed. The fact that laws survived the lawmaking process at all means we should consider the thoughts that went into their creation. I'm not saying you should read every word of every statute. But a nation's laws are in many ways reflections of its cultural ethics.
XiaoPing 14y ago
Yes, I cannot believe that those guys are still running. Amazing.
- vidarh 14y ago
  The things that's truly amazing is just how inept the attempts at getting them blocked are. In the UK, the big ISPs initially at least blocked only a single IP, so TPB have changed IPs a few times. Each time to a new IP in the /24 network block registered to them. Why the entire /24 didn't get blocked in the first case is beyond me. Not that it'd have helped given the massive number of proxies, but it doesn't look like they were even trying.
  - seunosewa 14y ago
    It makes perfect sense. ISPs don't want to block their customers, so they do the least they could get away with doing.
    - vidarh 14y ago
      It's not the ISPs behaviour I find strangest, though, but that the rights organizations have not asked for even marginally more effective measures, such as even asking to have all IPs owned by The Pirate Bay blocked.
- MengYuanLong 14y ago
  I speculate that it may be an attempt to stem movement to the significant number of private trackers that dependably provide higher quality torrents earlier than public sites. Allowing TPB to stay up means that people must sort through muck and viruses to locate the content they want. For many, that is enough and they don't bother looking a little deeper. Lol, but that is 'conspiracy-esque' speculation.
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lucb1e 14y ago
HTTP proxy for people who got TPB blocked: http://thepiratebay.se.ipv4.sixxs.org/blog/222 http://thepiratebay.se.ipv4.sixxs.org/blog/222
necenzurat 14y ago
i poste the same fucking shit 8 hours ago and NO VOTES, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4525973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4525973 WTF?
- weaksauce 14y ago
  That's 6am PST.(where silicon valley is) Not a lot of people are up at that time here reading hacker news. Also, the new page tends to get overrun with new items quite quickly and sometimes an article does not get steam. But frankly your tone is not one that many here care for so please refrain. Also, please refrain from meta commentary; it's just noise.
  - necenzurat 14y ago
    americans...
- mehulkar 14y ago
  "You can accomplish anything you want in life provided you don't mind who gets the credit." - Harry Truman
- prawn 14y ago
  Just stop for a second and realise you're upset over missing out on some virtual Internet points. Your life will be OK!
film42 14y ago
I'm sorry, but as for quality of product and site service, the pirate bay is terrible. You can't browse the sight without a bombardment of popups, popunders and softcore pr0n lining all the sides of the screen. I don't support this style of "piracy." Free is open-source, free comes from passion but free is NOT a profitable site claiming to liberate the people.
nacker 14y ago
Thank God for the renegades, and the lives they lead Far ahead of their time Without the renegades, Lord knows where we'd be When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine They railed against the crown, Another rag tag band Declaring Independence They laid their bodies down, won a bloody war, And liberty for their descendents Thanks to the renegades, we're free today Thanks to the renegades, we're free today Thank god for the renegades, and the lives they lead Far ahead of their time Without the renegades, Lord knows where we'd be When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine Where are the renegades in the world today? Who are the renegades in the world today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgo9aHnqHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgo9aHnqHI And I am strangely impelled to add this link: http://pt.scribd.com/doc/3230/Robert-Crumb-The-Religious-Experience-of-Philip-K-Dick http://pt.scribd.com/doc/3230/Robert-Crumb-The-Religious-Exp... The Empire Never Ended!

232 points by m_for_monkey 14y ago

sp332 14y ago

I need a recording of this, I can't read it with the proper cadence.

danking00 14y ago
I think it might be in the cadence of "99 Problems" by Jay-Z, but, admittedly, I still find it difficult to read it.
bittersweet 14y ago
This is N.W.A. - 100 miles and running http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUbgPYIrU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUbgPYIrU4

gl0wa 14y ago

At least in some countries... In the UK we have: http://cl.ly/image/3m2C40432q0u http://cl.ly/image/3m2C40432q0u

asselinpaul 14y ago
use Tor
- icebraining 14y ago
  Easier to use one of the many proxies, like the one run by the Pirate Party: https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/ https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
  - warp 14y ago
    Indeed. For anyone in .nl whose providers were forced to block them: http://fucktimkuik.org http://fucktimkuik.org
- ot86 14y ago
  Here's a big proxy list: http://proxybay.info http://proxybay.info
justincormack 14y ago
I don't. Turns out its because I get it on ipv6, and my tunnel terminates in the US I guess (or they don't filter ipv6)
jakeonthemove 14y ago
Yep, in Belgium you get: http://imgur.com/7qAwh http://imgur.com/7qAwh I'm surprised - I wonder if it's the same thing in other EU countries?
- sgift 14y ago
  At least not all of them - I can see the page without problems (Germany).
- andreasvc 14y ago
  The Netherlands as well.
  - jakeonthemove 14y ago
    Then I believe Luxembourg blocks it, too...
- w1ntermute 14y ago
  Try https://piratereverse.info/ https://piratereverse.info/
- depr 14y ago
  fax, really?
  - jakeonthemove 14y ago
    Shows how much they care :-)
rwmj 14y ago
Works fine for me. I'm using enta.net for access, and it's completely unfiltered as far as I'm aware.
- toyg 14y ago
  Lol, Enta. I bailed on them when they cut my connection after one of those silly letters from US lawyers, because my wife had downloaded "Nurse Betty" here in UK. Now i'm on Virgin, on a much faster connection. piratebay is "blocked" but i just use one of the 99 mirrors around and life is good.
tomjen3 14y ago
Same shit in Denmark. Oh was, now I run Google DNS.
gglanzani 14y ago
Here's a shell script (last line Mac-only) to open the pirate bay, regardless of the block (at least in the Netherlands).
- bartligthart 14y ago
  (http://fucktimkuik.org http://fucktimkuik.org)
toyg 14y ago
Use http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk

kisstheblade 14y ago

Yeah it's "blocked" in Finland too (I thought this was a free country... But this is what you get when you elect friggin ex. Miss Finland to be the Minister handling these issues! Stupid is as stupid does, too bad the woting population seems pretty stupid in general if/when the elected representatives are a reflection of them). http://www.piraattilahti.org http://www.piraattilahti.org works fine though (a Proxy) :)

mattvot 14y ago

Proxy http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/222 http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/222

Garbage 14y ago

For the people, who can't access the direct site, here is the text of the blog: http://pastebin.com/DQLYkTnL http://pastebin.com/DQLYkTnL

vidarh 14y ago
Or just go to: http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog (proxy operated by the UK Pirate Party)

klrr 14y ago

I don't support illegal activity, but I believe this is a quest of freedom, not for getting stuff free as in free beer.

duairc 14y ago
Why don't you support illegal activity?
- why-el 14y ago
  I don't know why you are downvoted. This is a valid question.
- hmottestad 14y ago
  I'm not the OP, but here is my opinion. As a rule of thumb I don't support illegal activities. Why would I? Most of the laws I agree with, like no murder/rape/robbery. However some laws I'm against. Like the public drinking ban in Norway, why can't I have a beer by the lake? And on the topic of media industries vs. file sharing. I haven't really made up my mind. Especially after the media industry brought tanks and fighter jets to a knife fight.
  - jlgreco 14y ago
    There are so many laws, I don't know how you could possibly say in an informed manner that you agree with most of them. Making ethical decisions is easy for the majority of us, but our knowledge of the law is universally poor. I don't see why we should factor the law into discussions of ethics; it doesn't do anything to simplify the discussion.
    - dandelany 14y ago
      > There are so many laws, I don't know how you could possibly say in an informed manner that you agree with most of them. Oh, come on now. You can be informed on the ones that matter to you the most, and the ones which are most commonly broken, which says a lot about the society you live in. It's not that hard. > I don't see why we should factor the law into discussions of ethics Because laws, in many or most cases, reflect the moral or ethical views of a large number of people, or at least they did at the time they were passed. The fact that laws survived the lawmaking process at all means we should consider the thoughts that went into their creation. I'm not saying you should read every word of every statute. But a nation's laws are in many ways reflections of its cultural ethics.

XiaoPing 14y ago

Yes, I cannot believe that those guys are still running. Amazing.

vidarh 14y ago
The things that's truly amazing is just how inept the attempts at getting them blocked are. In the UK, the big ISPs initially at least blocked only a single IP, so TPB have changed IPs a few times. Each time to a new IP in the /24 network block registered to them. Why the entire /24 didn't get blocked in the first case is beyond me. Not that it'd have helped given the massive number of proxies, but it doesn't look like they were even trying.
- seunosewa 14y ago
  It makes perfect sense. ISPs don't want to block their customers, so they do the least they could get away with doing.
  - vidarh 14y ago
    It's not the ISPs behaviour I find strangest, though, but that the rights organizations have not asked for even marginally more effective measures, such as even asking to have all IPs owned by The Pirate Bay blocked.
MengYuanLong 14y ago
I speculate that it may be an attempt to stem movement to the significant number of private trackers that dependably provide higher quality torrents earlier than public sites. Allowing TPB to stay up means that people must sort through muck and viruses to locate the content they want. For many, that is enough and they don't bother looking a little deeper. Lol, but that is 'conspiracy-esque' speculation.

deleted 14y ago

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lucb1e 14y ago

HTTP proxy for people who got TPB blocked: http://thepiratebay.se.ipv4.sixxs.org/blog/222 http://thepiratebay.se.ipv4.sixxs.org/blog/222

necenzurat 14y ago

i poste the same fucking shit 8 hours ago and NO VOTES, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4525973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4525973 WTF?

weaksauce 14y ago
That's 6am PST.(where silicon valley is) Not a lot of people are up at that time here reading hacker news. Also, the new page tends to get overrun with new items quite quickly and sometimes an article does not get steam. But frankly your tone is not one that many here care for so please refrain. Also, please refrain from meta commentary; it's just noise.
- necenzurat 14y ago
  americans...
mehulkar 14y ago
"You can accomplish anything you want in life provided you don't mind who gets the credit." - Harry Truman
prawn 14y ago
Just stop for a second and realise you're upset over missing out on some virtual Internet points. Your life will be OK!

film42 14y ago

I'm sorry, but as for quality of product and site service, the pirate bay is terrible. You can't browse the sight without a bombardment of popups, popunders and softcore pr0n lining all the sides of the screen. I don't support this style of "piracy." Free is open-source, free comes from passion but free is NOT a profitable site claiming to liberate the people.

nacker 14y ago

Thank God for the renegades, and the lives they lead Far ahead of their time Without the renegades, Lord knows where we'd be When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine They railed against the crown, Another rag tag band Declaring Independence They laid their bodies down, won a bloody war, And liberty for their descendents Thanks to the renegades, we're free today Thanks to the renegades, we're free today Thank god for the renegades, and the lives they lead Far ahead of their time Without the renegades, Lord knows where we'd be When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine Where are the renegades in the world today? Who are the renegades in the world today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgo9aHnqHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgo9aHnqHI And I am strangely impelled to add this link: http://pt.scribd.com/doc/3230/Robert-Crumb-The-Religious-Experience-of-Philip-K-Dick http://pt.scribd.com/doc/3230/Robert-Crumb-The-Religious-Exp... The Empire Never Ended!