Studios score another TKO against Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine that Hollywood has tried in vain to shut down for years, was offline Monday morning.

The blackout was presumably the result of an injunction won recently by the film studios that ordered The Pirate Bay's bandwidth provider to stop servicing the site. This is only the latest chapter in the cat-and-mouse game between Hollywood's big studios and the site's operators.

The Pirate Bay has lost at least two other bandwidth providers in the past few years and the site typically just acquires a new host. That is likely to happen once again in this case, according to a source close to the site.

According to the blog TorrentFreak, the CB3ROB, operator of host CyberBunker, was ordered last week by the Regional Court of Hamburg, Germany, to cut off The Pirate Bay.

:story: Full story: c|net

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Originally Posted by Reverend

The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine that Hollywood has tried in vain to shut down for years, was offline Monday morning.

The blackout was presumably the result of an injunction won recently by the film studios that ordered The Pirate Bay's bandwidth provider to stop servicing the site. This is only the latest chapter in the cat-and-mouse game between Hollywood's big studios and the site's operators.

The Pirate Bay has lost at least two other bandwidth providers in the past few years and the site typically just acquires a new host. That is likely to happen once again in this case, according to a source close to the site.

According to the blog TorrentFreak, the CB3ROB, operator of host CyberBunker, was ordered last week by the Regional Court of Hamburg, Germany, to cut off The Pirate Bay.

:story: Full story: c|net

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so why is the site back online now?

probably different host where piracy isnt illegal. I was wondering what was up. Thought maybe another DDOS attack. Demonoid was been getting hammered with them.

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Originally Posted by Big Booger

so why is the site back online now?

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The Pirate Bay has lost at least two other bandwidth providers in the past few years and the site typically just acquires a new host. That is likely to happen once again in this case, according to a source close to the site.

Does the court order just cancel the bandwidth for that provider or a lifetime ban... like, can TPB simply re-sign up with them next time, and claim it's a different customer/account number?

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Originally Posted by cash_site

can TPB simply re-sign up with them next time, and claim it's a different customer/account number?

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Their domain registration would have to be transferred to a different owner.

Oh I see Rev, what about instead of TPB... why not just the IP numbers?

Seems kind of stupid that studios are still trying to suppress this crap. I mean I understand they have a business model to protect but I think that model is failing and they need to find a better way to extract revenue from customers... like 3D video attracting customers to theaters.. or rides and attractions, goods and after exhibition products or like ads in movies for example...

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Originally Posted by cash_site

Oh I see Rev, what about instead of TPB... why not just the IP numbers?

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They can easily be masked. And bear in mind how traffic TPB gets. The bandwidth alone would alert the authorities regardless of what new identity they may take.