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ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se have been seized
- Nadya 11y agoA lot of pirates tend to be slightly more tech-educated than most people, or are at least able to follow instructions. Keep the bindings for the domain and get instructions out on how to change your host file. Continue under the same domain as an extra kick to the teeth showing that domain seizure doesn't really prevent it from being used. It just hurts adoption rate.
- sp332 11y agoA follow-up post: https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-gs-la-vg-am-mn-and-gd-domains-150519/ https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-gs-la-vg-am-mn-... The Pirate Bay has launched on 6 new domains, and thepiratebay.se is resolving to them in a round-robin fashion. But how are they doing that if they don't control thepiratebay.se anymore?
- toomuchtodo 11y agoThey control thepiratebay.org, which redirects to whatever is the most current TLD domain.
- sp332 11y agoTry it - thepiratebay.se redirects to one of those six new domains.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoInteresting!
- sp332 11y agoI guess the domain has not actually been seized. The order was written but not executed yet, and there may be an appeal etc before it takes effect.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoNot sure why they haven't purchased thepiratebay.aw yet, I had thought Aruba had a trade dispute with the US that dictated (from the WTO) that Aruba could violate US copyrights: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds285_e.htm https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds285_e...
- dedward 11y agoAntigua, not Aruba. (technically the country of Antigua and Barbuda)
- jmkni 11y agoMy pirating days are behind me now, once you start trying to create content you realize how difficult that can be and appreciate much more that content creators deserve compensation for their efforts. That being said, this is bloody hilarious to watch! The authorities will go through months of court cases and spend a tonne of money to seize one domain, and minutes later the service pops up with 6 new ones. Now they are going to begin the painful, expensive, difficult process again, and in a few months we will read that ThePirateBay.vg etc has been seized, with the top comment being a link to the new one. I'm enjoying the show!
- nabaraz 11y agoExactly. I feel for those authorities who work months to seize a domain and the site is back in about 5 minutes with a different domain. Imagine if they put this much effort in something good.