Inuit all along: Pirate Bay flees Sweden for Greenland
Tip-off of imminent domain seizures sends pirates scurrying
The Pirate Bay has set sail for Greenland after receiving a tip-off
suggesting the Swedish authorities were about to seize its current domain.
Owners of the world's largest file-sharing site lifted anchor on Tuesday
night and moved from their current address to the .gl domain in a bid to
evade Swedish cyber-cops.
British filesharers could benefit from the change, which comes with a new IP
address, because most ISPs now block the current server.
However, a quick and unscientific test by El Reg revealed that Virgin Media,
which opposed blocking TPB in the first place, still does not allow
customers to access the site.
The owners of the site, which temporarily renamed itself The Hydra Bay back
in February in tribute to the site's constant sprouting of new heads, seem
intent on keeping it going. They vowed to keep playing "whack-a-mole" with
the authorities.
For now though, the .gl site looks to be permanent.
This is The Pirate Bay's second move in just over a year. In 2012, it moved
from the .org domain in a bid to avoid the attentions of the American
authorities.
Speaking to TorrentFreak, a TPB insider revealed fears that the Swedish
authorities were about to strike in the hope of removing the website from
the internet for good. The threats are not merely idle. Last year, a Swedish
court ordered the seizure of the p2ptv.se domain, which offered free streams
of hockey and football matches (report - in Swedish). The owners of that
site are launching an appeal.
The prosecutor in the case suggested the same process could be used to sink
The Pirate Bay for good.
A visit to TPB reveals that little has changed. Anyone accessing the site is
automatically redirected to the new domain and the same options are still
available.
In February this year, The Pirate Bay in Sweden handed over responsibility
for the site to colleagues in Norway and Spain. Although the site is largely
cloud-based - hosted on virtual machines in two countries using separate
cloud networks - the Swedish Pirate Party were threatened with legal action
and decided to stop using its servers to host the file-sharing site.
A statement said:
As some of you may know, we are 99% cloud based today. We have though,
enjoyed the great company of the swedish Pirate party. As they have gotten a
severe legal threat (that will cost a lot to defend against) we've taken the
decision to move on to Norway and Spain.
According to Google, there have been 870,923 requests to remove the Pirate
Bay from its listings.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/10/pirate_bay_greenland/
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