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Injunction forces Pirate Bay down temporarily

A preliminary injunction obtained by several major Hollywood studios against the Pirate Bay's provider has forced the infamous BitTorrent tracker offline temporarily while it attempts to carry out backup plans. CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. were prohibited from connecting the Pirate Bay website to the Internet by the Regional Court of Hamburg through the CyberBunker operator.

CB3ROB Managing Director Sven Olaf Kamphuis decided to stop routing the Pirate Bay traffic until his lawyers have carefully read and reviewed the injunction he received. The Pirate Bay will not wait for the lawyers review however, and are already attempting to get the website back online.



To get back online, the site only requires that another provider routes traffic for the Pirate Bay servers. At time of writing the site is still offline but is expected to be back online within a few hours.

The Pirate Bay has kept backup and "Plan B" measures since it was targeted in a raid back in 2006.

Written by: James Delahunty @ 17 May 2010 17:55

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• 33 comments

• VENOM79

  i support pirate bay fu@k hollywood
  

  17.5.2010 18:31 #1

• Paula_X

  Time they got themselves a host somewhere friendly.. like Iran
  

  http://en.windows7sins.org/

  17.5.2010 19:11 #2

• xXJerBeaRXx (unverified)

  Originally posted by VENOM79: i support pirate bay fu@k hollywood With you Bro Fu@K Them

  17.5.2010 19:16 #3

• TokiTheGreat (unverified)

  Hey, Kamphuis. edited by ddp YOU

  17.5.2010 19:33 #4

• RascalKing (unverified)

  Originally posted by TokiTheGreat: Hey, Kamphuis. edited by ddp YOU no, edited by ddp you edited by ddp, i hope you die in a car fire.

  17.5.2010 19:37 #5

• thepohl

  "The most resilient bittorrent site." -It really is.

  17.5.2010 20:31 #6

• 6sicSIX (unverified)

  Grr.. I just brcked my N900 and refuse to go back to PR1.1, I need tpb :(
  
  They need a big server on a satelite in space or something, then we could modify our sky dishes and no one could get in the way.. I have such wishful thinking lol :]

  17.5.2010 20:38 #7

• TheThornz (unverified)

  I do a lot of research and read a lot of E-books, What is the difference between me checking out a book at the library and downloading a PDF? Once I am done with it I rarely go back to it. The only difference is a 2 weeks wait.

  17.5.2010 20:40 #8

• DuskSky (unverified)

  Its so funny that people still think they can tame the internet. It's the modern wild west! Even if they could shut down pirate bay it'll only be a matter of time until a bigger & better website appears.

  17.5.2010 20:58 #9

• LUKE4! (unverified)

  TBP will never sink. i give it an hour till its back up. o and by the way edited by ddp YOU COPYRIGHT LAWS!!!!!!!!!

  17.5.2010 21:12 #10

• HpDevilDog (unverified)

  edited by ddp hollywood they are all overpaid under worked edited by ddp

  17.5.2010 21:18 #11

• kwr66

  im wearin the goddamn shirt right now support tpb. hollywood, drm, mpa...you have tried, tried again, and failed. stop f**king trying...

  17.5.2010 21:23 #12

• nonononono (unverified)

  edited by ddp them all die!!!

  17.5.2010 21:41 #13

• Suporter_of_tpb_cch (unverified)

  For edited by ddp sake, leave these guys alone already, You can kiss all our white, dark, and rainbow asses beacuse Piratebay edited by ddp rullz and I would gladly take a edited by ddp o every edited by ddp hiena from the music, film, game and software industry just to say THESE GUYS BEHIND TPB DISERVE RESPECT and thoes idiots need to lobotomize their own moms so that she never squirts out asswipes as themselfs! Down with the edited by ddp System! edited by ddp the Law, FREE OUR FRIENDS ! TPB WILL BE BACK and we shall all get back to downloading in no time.. edited by ddp the USA LAW and edited by ddp that don't have enough money and have to pick on ordinary people trying to urn some income out of ADDs!!

  17.5.2010 21:43 #14

• jayjayjj50 (unverified)

  didnt the movie industry just set a record in revenue this past year(during a bad economy no less). yea bittorrent sites like piratebay are really having a negative affect on movie revenues, how would the movie industry ever survive.

  17.5.2010 21:52 #15

• Kitathas (unverified)

  Originally posted by VENOM79: i support pirate bay fu@k hollywood
  ATTN: Hollywood, The Music Industry, All you piss ant judges who have nothing better to do but grant injunctions sans oral hearings(good job edited by ddp you just beat this rap for TPB try actually following your own rules and mabey MABEY you'll get something to stick) any of you random groups that have sprung up to stop pirates and copy right enforcement....go watch the movie Hackers remove the drama check out the Hack the world boys and understand what your dealing with you wanna make it a war with out under standing the rules of engagement, which btw are this: we are not constrained by the law in the same way you are, every time you do something the public eye falls on you we dont have that problem so...bend over, you know your edited by ddp :P
  
  WELCOME TO THE NEEDLE STACK, WATCH AS WE HIDE TPB IN THE STACK, DIG IN BOYS!
  Support TPB

  17.5.2010 22:11 #16

• Panemon (unverified)

  I fully support Pirate Bay. They are the reason why I will never have to buy anything for my entertainment again. Piracy rules! I live in America, edited by ddp their system. The only thing lawsuits ever benefit are attorneys anyways.

  17.5.2010 22:14 #17

• ZapItNu

  I remember when our auto manufacturers, decades ago, came up with an agreement involving Japanese imports. Japan agreed to "not import so many cars." The result, American cars manufacturers got lazy because they didn't have to improve in the timescale that Japan was presenting to the world. American manufactures got caught with their pants down and their thumbs up their noses, and Japan, which only had a verbal agreement, took over and took a big chunk out the Big 3.
  
  Hollywood and movies, here we are. How can Hollywood expect to improve the movie going experience if we are forced by law to have to either go to the theater, or buy the DVD? Hollywood needs to get their heads out and realize they need to evolve, or lose out.
  
  Bottom line, win us back to the theater.
  

  17.5.2010 22:28 #18

• T-Killah (unverified)

  Originally posted by 6sicSIX: Grr.. I just brcked my N900 and refuse to go back to PR1.1, I need tpb :(
  
  They need a big server on a satelite in space or something, then we could modify our sky dishes and no one could get in the way.. I have such wishful thinking lol :]
  yea man!

  17.5.2010 22:53 #19

• Suporter_of_tpb_cch (unverified)

  Pirate Bay Rulzz... WE support u guys and toghether we shall crush their skulls ARGGGGG ! edited by ddp USA laws, HOLLYWOOD and all that is related to thoes edited by ddp overthere! UP YOURS SONS OF A edited by ddp! TPB WILL NEVER SINK... HACKERS UNITE!!! Let's theach these guys what true suffering means!!! Any unrealesed films in their database? let's fuckem all!!! Piss edited by ddp!!!!!!!

  17.5.2010 22:53 #20

• LeonsGriefDOTbat (unverified)

  Hollywood,full of greed and edited by ddp.
  Always trying to rain on a edited by ddp parade,yes we found a way to not pay rediculous sum of money for software that isnt even worth half the retail price,Yes we will keep doing it,you cant edited by ddp stop us.
  
  Go pirate bay go!

  17.5.2010 22:59 #21

• BK (unverified)

  Even if the creators didn't put it back up, there are several dozen people with backups of that web site waiting to take its place. Hollywood. You will not win this. All you have done is given the pirate bay publicity that will be used by whoever takes its place. Every single time they have ever shut down a program or web page, without exception, a more extensive one has taken its place within the month.

  17.5.2010 23:36 #22

• KillerBug

  LOL...
  edited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddpedited by ddp

  17.5.2010 23:43 #23

• country mane (unverified)

  THose edited by ddp need to get a edited by ddp life. They all are edited by ddp mother edited by ddp and i wish hitler we're here to kill every edited by ddp one of them.

  17.5.2010 23:54 #24

• DVDBack23

  I don't know what the hell happened to this thread but I'm shutting it down before the unverified users keep going wild.
  

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  18.5.2010 00:02 #25

• KOBKED-X (unverified)

  I support the free shareing of most things.
  I Support TPB and wil lwear the shirt with Pride!
  
  I will pass discs if I can't share online...
  
  I will fight them on the net...
  I will fight them on the air waves..
  I will fight them till I die...
  I will never surrender!
  
  Really people.. Just set up peer to peer privat, line of sight para bolic two way dishes and share , share share..open wireless wit hboosters..Make our Own WEB :)

  18.5.2010 00:33 #26

• Chill-.-... (unverified)

  Originally posted by : dude... really? wuts up with the racial crap? i support tpb but ur files are not that damn important that nazis are needed
  -.- sad

  18.5.2010 01:05 #27

• UnitedArtist (unverified)

  America, you are so funny. Everything you do is based on monetary value. This was relevant when artists wanted a cut for themselves. Sure, Arista, Warner Brothers, Universal and so many other companies were getting the lions share of profits, they put out the most expense! They would give 100 artists recording time, studio time, editing time, etc. and out of 100 MAYBE 1 or 2 would make it big because they had the talent. Think of the biggest names-Steven Speilberg, Michael Jackson, Elvis, The Beatles,The Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Akira Kurosawa...and many, many others. Yes, they got rich and their respective representative studios became even richer. But for these artistic geniuses, the studios would have to shell out 75% to FIND them and weed through the 99 out of 100 artists that weren't so great, or that the public didn't respond to.
  
  Now that every kind of art that can be digitally transmitted (e.g. movies, music) is value-less, erevything that is cranked out of the recording or movie industry is sub-par because everyone with talent knows there is no money in it for them. And guess what America, YOU are the reason. If you pay a person to dance for you, they may or may not dance. But if you don't pay them at all, what are the chances they are going to perform? What about if you paid them even MORE? They would probably dance better than you'd ever imagine, right?
  So if you get something for free off of the internet, and all of your friends get it for free, and everyone on Earth gets it for free, what do you think the recording industry and the movie industry is going to invest their money in?
  Only things that are profitable right? Which means that only the dumbest or poorest people that do not know how to get things for free are going to have to shell out money for. Which means you are going to be subjected to movies, music, and anything that can be digitally copied (stolen) that only the dumbest or poorest section of the population are willing to pay for.
  Take my analogy from before. Say you are X, and you and person Y pay person Z to dance, they will dance. Now say you dont pay, but person Y is still paying. Person Z will still dance, but probably not as enthusiastic or enlightening.
  Now say person Y only pays 1/2 of what they were paying, or 1/3, or 1/8....
  How good do you think the dance would be then? If you went to your job and they didn't pay you, how productive would you be? How long would you stay at that job? What if no jobs paid you? What if the only job you could get was for poverty level, how productive would you be?
  
  America, you want something for nothing, and every time you think you are getting something for free, you are only cutting down the artist, and then you complain about how movies and music aren't as good as they once were.
  
  20 years ago, if your child was talented at one of these mediums, you may have encouraged them to go into the art and been secure that if they were good enough, they could make a living.
  
  Now, with everything being "free", even if they were the best ever at the art, there would be no money in it....ever. How likely would you be to encourage them to go into that particular field?
  
  America used to be the place where everything was made. Then Japan outshined you in technology and automobiles (then Korea outshined them). Movies and music were the one thing you did right. And now you have spoiled that.
  
  You have dug your own grave America, and you have no one to blame but yourself.

  18.5.2010 01:35 #28

• crunk15

  yo wtf is up with this tread? its epic and i agree with all of u but theres so much hate. hell sounds like were all ready to start a pirate revolution
  

  18.5.2010 03:44 #29

• Mrguss

  The Pirate Bay (TPB) is the # 99th most popular Web-Site in the World and the # 96th in USA.
  
  The Future of TPB will be OK :running as independent Micronation
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation.
  
  May 17, 2010. The Pirate Bay has been succesfully reinstated. They expect however to not be online untill Friday of this week.
  http://forum.suprbay.org/showthread.php?tid=63991&page=9
  

  +4000

  18.5.2010 04:26 #30

• VENOM79

  Originally posted by : [/quote country mane
  
  this guy is my hero
  

  18.5.2010 11:00 #31

• theon1983 (unverified)

  The Pirate Bay rules!!!!!

  16.9.2010 19:51 #32