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The Pirate Bay will be back. They just had their load balancer taken out. All this doom and gloom about how the TPB is gone for good is ridiculous. It's a cash

The Pirate Bay will be back. They just had their load balancer taken out. All this doom and gloom about how the TPB is gone for good is ridiculous. It's a cash cow, it's not going to go away anytime soon. I knew something was wrong with TPB before it was announced that it was raided and subsequently taken down. I noticed an uptick in in sessions on google analytics for my movie meta-torrent search engine https://moviemagnet.net https://moviemagnet.net

gkoberger 12y ago
Legitimate question: Cash cow for whom? With everyone in jail, who gets the money? Did they take salaries before? Where is this money stored? (I imagine freezing assets is easier than taking down a website; with money you have to play within the system)
- Alupis 12y ago
  Almost all the money went towards purchasing equipment and legal fees. I don't think anyone in particular (except maybe the lawyers) got rich off the site.
  - cLeEOGPw 12y ago
    Keep believing the sob stories. One of the most frequently visited websites is "barely paying for the servers", yeah right. Wish Wikileaks would publish real numbers and profit they make.
    - soperj 12y ago
      It's not like they needed an exorbitant amount of servers either, they host magnet links.
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  - ajross 12y ago
    To be fair, I don't think anyone has any idea where that money is going (though maybe someone has an estimate for how much money is involved). Statements from pseudonymous site operators can't reasonably be trusted. If they were getting rich off of a site of questionable legality, they certainly wouldn't be advertising that fact.
- cantbecool 12y ago
  They handed it over to Sweden's Pirate Party allegedly. I forget the exact article, but it was over at TorrentFreak: http://torrentfreak.com http://torrentfreak.com
- shliachtx 12y ago
  They were bought out some time ago. It's current owners are an anonymous shell corporation.[1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-steams-ahead-but-whos-doing-the-selling/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-s...
- experimental- 12y ago
  I don't think any of the founding members (some, or all of which have served time in jail) are involved in running the site (or have been in years) – at least not officially.
induscreep 12y ago
Seems to be back. http://thepiratebay.cr/ http://thepiratebay.cr/
- cantbecool 12y ago
  That's a clone using old database like OP's post.
admax88q 12y ago
Considering how longs its been down for, it is much more likely that they found the actual backends this time. It shouldn't take this long to get a new load balancer up.
- cantbecool 12y ago
  Speculation is that it's the load balancer; they have 21 VPS all over the world: torrentfreak.com/can-pirate-bay-make-comeback-141210/

gkoberger 12y ago

Legitimate question: Cash cow for whom? With everyone in jail, who gets the money? Did they take salaries before? Where is this money stored? (I imagine freezing assets is easier than taking down a website; with money you have to play within the system)

Alupis 12y ago
Almost all the money went towards purchasing equipment and legal fees. I don't think anyone in particular (except maybe the lawyers) got rich off the site.
- cLeEOGPw 12y ago
  Keep believing the sob stories. One of the most frequently visited websites is "barely paying for the servers", yeah right. Wish Wikileaks would publish real numbers and profit they make.
  - soperj 12y ago
    It's not like they needed an exorbitant amount of servers either, they host magnet links.
  - deleted 12y ago
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- ajross 12y ago
  To be fair, I don't think anyone has any idea where that money is going (though maybe someone has an estimate for how much money is involved). Statements from pseudonymous site operators can't reasonably be trusted. If they were getting rich off of a site of questionable legality, they certainly wouldn't be advertising that fact.
cantbecool 12y ago
They handed it over to Sweden's Pirate Party allegedly. I forget the exact article, but it was over at TorrentFreak: http://torrentfreak.com http://torrentfreak.com
shliachtx 12y ago
They were bought out some time ago. It's current owners are an anonymous shell corporation.[1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-steams-ahead-but-whos-doing-the-selling/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/pirate-bay-sale-s...
experimental- 12y ago
I don't think any of the founding members (some, or all of which have served time in jail) are involved in running the site (or have been in years) – at least not officially.

induscreep 12y ago

Seems to be back. http://thepiratebay.cr/ http://thepiratebay.cr/

cantbecool 12y ago
That's a clone using old database like OP's post.

admax88q 12y ago

Considering how longs its been down for, it is much more likely that they found the actual backends this time. It shouldn't take this long to get a new load balancer up.

cantbecool 12y ago
Speculation is that it's the load balancer; they have 21 VPS all over the world: torrentfreak.com/can-pirate-bay-make-comeback-141210/