Earlier today the most infamous Torrent search engine; The Pirate Bay was temporarily offline. Apparently they weren’t forced offline but decided to change hosts because their former host was being threatened with large fines. Maybe the official TPB blog can say it best.
PLZ LEARN: TPB CANT BE SHUT DOWN
LOL!
AS U MITE HAS READ OR NOTICD, PEEPS ONCE AGAIN R TRYIN 2 SHUT US DOWN. DIS WILL NOT SUCCED, LOL. OURS RLY NICE WEBHOST WUZ THREATEND WIF RLY HUGE FINE, SO WE DECIDD 2 MOOV TEH SIET SO DAT THEY DIDNT GOT INTO TROUBLE, LOL. TEH DECISHUN 2 MOOV WUZ TAKEN BY US, TEH PIRATE BAY, LOL.
TEH PIRATE BAY IZ AN UNSINKABLE SHIP. IT WILL SAIL TEH INTERWEBS 4 AS LONG AS WE WANTS IT 2. REMEMBR DAT, K THX.
TPB, ONLY IN IT 4 TEH LULZ SINCE 2003
As you can deduce from the above blog post The Pirate Bay isn’t afraid and won’t back down. I wouldn’t normally post something like this but I am just amazed at the resiliance of this organization that doesn’t even have a reliable source of income. I’m afraid that the war between The Pirate Bay and the copyright associations will keep on going until either The Pirate Bay runs out of bandwidth suppliers or the music studios run out of money.
I don’t see any of those things happening soon, even though the music industry has been reporting large losses I doubt they will run out of money soon and well The Pirate Bay is the The Pirate Bay. They always seem to have back up options.
I don’t support piracy but I don’t think it will ever stop. If people want access to media they will get it, there is no way to stop them short of the United States becoming a dictatorship. Honestly, I am always surprised by the inguenity of the people who run these illegal sites, they never seem to run out of ideas. Right now, I am going to grab my folding chair and some popcorn while I watch this bloody game of tug of war between good and evil fold out.
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Hey B,
I really enjoyed this post. Pirate bay is one of the most interesting entities on the internet and their ability to evade and allude all who hate them is amazing. I also really enjoy their use of satire when mocking the hell out of the would be captors. In the future, I would like to see some of your points backed by sources. Atleast in posts like this. The fact that pirate bay doesn’t have any reliable sources of income is odd because they have such consistent advertising. So I would like to your source for that info. Great Stuff though I retweeted to all my tweeples.
I don’t know for a fact but i am pretty sure the pirate bay is only supported by donations and t-shirt sales. I don’t think thy have any partnerships or dependable ways of making money. I guess they must get quite a lot of money from donations though, I bet their financial situation is probabley a lot like Wikipedia’s. Yeah honestly I don’t think anyone knows for sure how they have managed to stat around for so long. I really don’t have any credible sources this is just what I have heard generally from assorted blog posts.
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