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Pirate Bay Facing Server Troubles and Downtime

torrentfreak.com — Many people have noticed that the Pirate Bay has had quite a lot of downtime lately. Some rumors say that the site may have been raided again, but in reality, The Pirate Bay simply has trouble keeping up with the ever increasing traffic.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 29, 2008

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  • holyskeleton, on 07/29/2008, -7/+149you just know there's a undercurrent of revolution movement going on when the mighty TPB has trouble keeping up with the traffic.
  • borez, on 07/29/2008, -27/+149Demonoid
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 07/29/2008, -4/+114Ninjas are attacking.
  • TheSpook, on 07/29/2008, -5/+80thepiratebay.org, proudly hosted by Cuil, Inc.
  • handler, on 07/29/2008, -0/+75RIAA is probably trying to DDOS them like noobs.
  • phantom_mullet, on 07/29/2008, -2/+70lol at your pandering for diggs by stating what you're downloading
  • jakethemighty, on 07/29/2008, -3/+70Why do people who don't care always reply saying that they don't care? If you don't care, click on a different story.
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -14/+67I just found a perfect copy of the Batman movie.
    Its at my local cinema.


  • wunksta, on 07/29/2008, -4/+53might have to start making donations ye scurvy dawgs
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -0/+39Can I get a torrent of this cinema? I want the sticky floor and everything!
  • krwlngindark, on 07/29/2008, -2/+35low blow, man. not cuil
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -3/+37Thanks for letting us know what you were downloading. I'm downloading "Back Door Sluts 57 - Special Coffee Enema Edition". Can I get dugg up by all the people that like bizarre porn now?
  • jakethelake, on 07/29/2008, -2/+33I feel the pain.
  • JakeyG14, on 07/29/2008, -3/+34I know this is such a generic comment, but TPB is awesome.
  • TheJalu, on 07/29/2008, -3/+32While they are down:

    Demonoid.com
    Torrentportal.com
    Isohunt.com
    Mininova.com
    FullDLS.com
    TorrentReactor.net
    myBittorrent.com
    NewTorrents.info
    Monova.org
    SeedPeer.org
    BTjunkie.org
    SumoTorrent.com
    SuprNova.org
    Eztv.it

    So don't come tell us you can't download because TPB is down!
  • Cardcaddy, on 07/29/2008, -5/+34LOL at people using private trackers. It just makes it easier for the FEDS to indite on conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Have fun with that.
  • jakethemighty, on 07/29/2008, -7/+35I can never find anything I want on Demonoid, and when I do there are no seeders unless its something new.
  • thewildvinci, on 07/29/2008, -1/+28mininova? it has always worked for me....
  • pendrachken, on 07/29/2008, -0/+26I thought that about the last movie I saw also, but that damn projector wouldn't fit in my car....
  • orangefly, on 07/29/2008, -4/+30isohunt....
    they can't all be up all the time....it's not like we don't have temporary alternatives to our favorites....
  • jvincent08, on 07/29/2008, -0/+26http://static.thepiratebay.org/
  • adml_shake, on 07/29/2008, -1/+24No it's not. That was a lie. Nothing to see there, move along.

  • Syraxis, on 07/29/2008, -2/+24Because people keep giving invite codes out to leachers.
  • Rotzooi, on 07/29/2008, -1/+23...but mininova just grabs other sites' content. TPB is not only an index, but also a tracker.
    If mininova dies: just use another index. If TPB dies: a million+ torrents are gone. (yeah yeah, dht etc etc, but still)
  • fuzzmeister, on 07/29/2008, -2/+22With architecture design by Twitter, Inc.
  • xoineg, on 07/29/2008, -1/+21no wonder i couldn't find any of my searches
  • Philmer, on 07/29/2008, -0/+19Not good In French, will not wait for DVD, will not buy ticket to England, Will download off TPB.
  • scarwars, on 07/29/2008, -0/+16"Mind you I have accounts on all of these sites ;)"
    You leet little devil.. having accounts on free sites..

    Isohunt doesn't do anything else then btjunkie, torrentz or youtorrent..
    They all use the same trackers to hunt files.

  • t2t2, on 07/29/2008, -2/+17Apparently not you.
  • proficient, on 07/29/2008, -2/+16I want to know what kind of set-up they have.
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -7/+20I love mininova.
  • drunkmonkey01, on 07/29/2008, -1/+14torrents arent illegal
  • 4ZERO1, on 07/29/2008, -2/+15I guess all the years of providing free service means nothing after the site goes down once or twice? jerks.

    TPB > ALL

    Dont you get this already?
  • GOVATENT, on 07/29/2008, -3/+16I like to play Lord of the Rings
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -0/+13I logged in just to digg you down for your stupidity.
  • AzraDarkness, on 07/29/2008, -11/+23Torrents off the Port bow!!! Pillage the Women and rape the village..
    stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east. encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be mpaa abound.
  • deathfix, on 07/29/2008, -4/+16http://digg.com/tech_news/Pirate_Bay_Facing_Server ...
  • SSPink, on 07/29/2008, -0/+12I think it's more of a 'people like free *****' movement.
  • skyshock1, on 07/29/2008, -0/+12Many of those sites just index torrents hosted on TPB.
  • velocity92c, on 07/29/2008, -4/+15There's a way to still search and download torrents from thepiratebay. Do an advanced google search, make the domain thepiratebay.org and type the name of your torrent. Once the results pop up click the 'cached' link underneath the actual link. On the cached page the torrent download links still work. This isn't as good as searching directly from TPB (Especially since you can't really sort the results) but it's not a bad substitute.
  • Verz, on 07/29/2008, -0/+11Because not all of us are douchebags. I think the guys at The Pirate Bay deserve a few beers, for giving such awesome service and going through all of the server/authority issues just so you could stay at home and watch The Dark Knight for free.
  • championchap, on 07/29/2008, -1/+11Goodnight.. sweet prince. :'(
  • DCstewieG, on 07/29/2008, -0/+10They host the trackers, so if they go down you won't be able to find new peers/seeds. Of course if you're already connected to people there shouldn't be a big problem.
  • Qxzkjp, on 07/29/2008, -1/+10Oh FFS. Piracy is not theft. Well, Johnny-Depp-like piracy is, but TPB-like piracy is not. In order for it to be theft, you must take something from someone. That's what makes it a crime. "Pirates" simply make copies.

    Therefore no-one is deprived of property, therefore it is not theft.
  • AyaJulia, on 07/29/2008, -1/+10You obviously have no idea what sort of mechanics and resources go into database searching for millions of users..
  • lazyrussian, on 07/29/2008, -3/+12Oh ya! And it's better than ever! =D
  • Gndoab, on 07/29/2008, -4/+12Donations? Are you ***** kidding me? They make tens of thousands of dollars a month on ad revenue.

    What...you thought they did it to stick it to the man?
  • GruntboyX, on 07/29/2008, -1/+9oh yeah well i noticed that something was really wrong when the availability of porn was decreasing.
  • wunksta, on 07/29/2008, -1/+9and? they offer a service i appreciate, i would like to help them out for it. this would also help lessen the burden of traffic and just help out the guys who maintain it. its like a tip, not necessary but a token of appreciation.
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -0/+8CHOCOLATE RAIN!
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