I am surprised The Pirate Bay has not developed an up-datable bit torrent model that allows the "web site" to be shared like any other torrent, with local searching by pointing the browser to it and some signed-key method of pushing out incremental (rsync-like) updates to it.
Costa Rica complains of US govt harassment over Pirate Bay domain
The operator of Costa Rica's .cr internet registry has formally complained that it is being harassed by the US government over The Pirate Bay domain on its system. In a letter [PDF] sent to the head of the Governmental Advisory Committee of DNS overseer ICANN, the president of the Costa Rican Academy of Science, Dr Pedro Leon …
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Tuesday 20th June 2017 23:17 GMT The Nazz
Antigua and Barbuda
A few years back, didn't the WTO (or similar) rule that A & B could recover some $3bn worth of trade, that they had suffered at the hands of the US?
How's that going, and if not all recovered can't the Pirate Bay go there?
No doubt in the past, A & B had many such pirate bays. Quite probably run by the British and Yanks, oh such irony.
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Wednesday 21st June 2017 00:16 GMT Ropewash
As usual.
These thickheads don't really get it do they?
There was a functional list of IPs for filesharing "pirates" right there. They really didn't care that you could see them since such a low percentage ever got C&D letters, let alone lawsuits.
No. That wasn't enough for you. Gotta try to take down the whole infrastructure to show you're properly kowtowing to the Hollywood money. Try to force your laws onto other nations. Why not also pressure ISPs into filtering torrent traffic so that even perfectly legal users suffer and/or start obfuscating their traffic.
So once it's all moved onto TOR or similar and they have no access what-so-ever to a handy list of IPs to sue what are you gonna do? Try to make TOR illegal? Probably. Will it work? No.
Good job.
Need any ammo for your other foot?
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Wednesday 21st June 2017 00:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
The shitty underhanded way America goes about
Working for corporate interests and bullying other countries makes TPB succeed even more. BTW: Another working TPB domain is .CD wherever that is... You've got to love TPB as well in general, because its one of the few websites left anywhere in the world that actually works fine without:
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... COOKIES ...
... IMAGES ...
... JAVASCRIPT ...
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So past furore regarding TPB serving up Malware Ads is moot too. Good!
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Wednesday 21st June 2017 07:56 GMT Blofeld's Cat
Er ...
"The ministry did carry out an investigation – and found that the registry was indeed following its rules that require a local court order to take down a domain name."
Perhaps the US could find a
corruptsympathetic local lawyer or two, and try to get the appropriate court order, or is that creating a dangerous precedent.-
Wednesday 21st June 2017 21:19 GMT TheVogon
Re: Er ...
"is that creating a dangerous precedent"
Of course. That would mean acknowledging that US law doesn't apply outside of the US. Not going to happen any time soon. So countries just ignore US attempts to pretend it does.
Probably the ones that did get removed were in breach of registry regulations. Quite often there is a cover-all clause about potentially illegal content...
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Wednesday 21st June 2017 08:13 GMT m-k
napster, pirate bay
they are milestones that have been reached and passed. Music / movie business still around (despite LOSING LITERALLY TRILLIONS TO PIRATES WHO SPONSOR TERRORISM AND HARM OUR CHILDREN!) and the pirates are still around too (and still up / downloading those multi-GB linux distros day and night).
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Wednesday 21st June 2017 15:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
TheRegister caught in a filter bubble?
"That .se domain also redirects to the (currently down) .org domain."
Are you sure your ISP isn't just blocking _your_ access? thepiratebay.org works for me. It's a rare even when I can't find what I'm looking for because the search backend is not responding.
Cloudflare wouldn't let them down.