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The Pirate Bay has received indications that the Swedish authorities might soon attempt to seize the site’s .se domain. In anticipation of this move, today the world’s largest file-sharing site switched to Greenland’s .gl domain. The move comes with a set of new IP-addresses which raises the possibility that existing ISP blockades might be bypassed, at least temporarily.
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  • mruk2u

    working again in the UK! :-)
  • martienne

    Blocked on VirginMedia, UK... But I am using a proxy anyway. Who even KNEW that Greenland have their own domain? I seem to remember from school that they have some kind of autonomy from Denmark that means they essentially do what they like but are officially part of Denmark. Well Done PIRATE BAY, well done GREENLAND (soon green for real, due to global warming...)
  • Anonymous

    For me the non-secure site (http) is blocked but not the secure one (https). loads fine ;)
  • Jeff Hanson

    bizarre. wasn't loading in Canada... but https does. Even weirder, only IE is affected, chrome works fine.
  • Dennis Pochenk

    Chrome uses Alternative DNS's and occasionally a proxy when on a slow/unstable connection.. Just like Opera which loads everything just fine and is also a reliable .torrentclient :)
  • Midarezaki

    If the Norks somehow have their own domain (.kp), why shouldn't Greenland have their own?
    (Surprised I haven't seen it come on air with a .cn name!)
  • Joe

    Doesn't work on Sky. But who do I care I have proxies I can use.
  • bno112300

    If it's blocked, you should report the problem to your ISP and demand they fix the fault.
    Never avoid solving problems just because you can cope with them now, things will only get worse.
  • Gues

    Confirmed, and agreed!
  • JusChillin

    As soon as I used a proxy I got The Call.
    They said the proxy alerted them or sum shit.
    TimeWarner, about 2 years ago.
  • Lolwut

    Really? Proxy alerted them?
    Going to call bullshit on this one.
    People use VPN/Proxies for legitimate reasons. People also just choose to use them simply because they want to.
    The traffic, when inspected by an ISP (even deep packet inspection), will simply look like the user is connecting to the proxy's IP for the most part. If someone uses a VPN, it's even more secure since it's (most times) encrypted traffic. It would be the equivalent of your ISP breaking into your encrypted traffic and stealing the password for your banking information. Sounds legal (and possible), right!?
    So, again, how in the hell could they possibly know you were using the proxy in order to give you... THE CALL (DUN DUN DUNNNNNN)? The answer is you're lying, and they didn't. There's never been an ISP that will call people and tell them not to use a proxy, VPN, etc. Bullshit.
  • JusChillin

    That's what they said, I wasn't there in the building with them. But, they knew I was using a proxy...and anyways, why would I lie? As opposed to people selling proxies here, who have more than enough reason...
    Go on, get excited over it.
    Write another novella...
  • Predator

    Ya right! You are such a fucking liar you fucking corporate troll! Good try. . . . NOT!
  • JusChillin

  • Varun DM

    Working fine in India too!!
  • Violated0

    You should state your ISP but it works on BT for sure.
  • Jack

    Blocked on BT now :(
  • DirkGently

    Confirmed - blocked on BT, but not on my personal proxy. Do you have some webspace? Set up your own proxy... have fun finding that one MAFIAA bitches!
  • Alec Dumas Fetty

    Now it takes so much more effort to pirate, good luck convincing any more friends to do it. No longer is it about installing software and visiting an illegals website. Now it's about proxies, VPNs, risks of disconnections from Internet, shady circumvention methods of legal standing court orders. When all of this is brought forth, good luck converting anyone else to believing theft of intellectual property will be overlooked by authorities. Most will say the trouble of obtaining for free that which they have no right to obtain for free is just not worth it. The hardcore pirates of today may remain, but in the future good luck keeping this going and generating more converts. Most will say it's not worth it.
  • HelpfulMan

    Have you ever thought of shortening you name from Alec Dumas Fetty to just Dumbass?
  • Dumbass

    Done ..thanks for the suggestion...
  • JusChillin

  • me

    "When all of this is brought forth, good luck converting anyone else to
    believing theft of intellectual property will be overlooked by
    Except that intellectual property can't be stolen, and thus it ain't no theft. Again, repeat after me: copyright infringement is NOT theft. It's a whole different beast altogether.
  • zarathustra2k1

    Obvious troll is etc...
  • Scary_Devil_Monastery

    "Now it takes so much more effort to pirate, good luck convincing any more friends to do it."
    Are you blind, ignorant, insane, or deliberately trolling?
    Because from the view of anyone even savvy enough to pirate in the first place, the hardest part of piracy remains in choosing "from what source". It's generally speaking all one-point-click installs.
    I can teach a completely clueless luser all the tricks of safe filesharing in less than five minutes and so can anyone else with even basic IT understanding.
    A simple google query will supply all the information needed for anyone capable of using a mouse to point and click.
    It is possible that unfortunate 11-year olds with dyslexia and mild mental retardation might find filesharing "hard" - but EVEN THEN not likely.
    And the only reason you are even capable of saying it is is if you believe - like our old friend "bobmail" that the internet is driven by arcane mysteries unfathomable by any but the select elite.
  • bobmail

    So you must find it nearly impossible.
  • sajfljf

    I have to admit: This is one of the worst conclusions you've ever made. Well done.
  • Stephen Higginbotham

    Signed Alec Dumas Fetty, CEO, Prenda Law
  • Holyfuck

    It's actually really easy.
  • JusChillin

    Well, besides all that, you no longer have the defense of, 'I didn't know about it!' 'Musta been the neighbor!'
  • josh

    Torrenting is easy
  • torzir

    Not on O2
  • TPB on Tor

    Try https://jntlesnev5o7zysa.tor2w... if you don't have Tor installed
  • thwap

    Not on TalkTalk (don't laugh...)
  • afasfa

    hahahahahahaha- oh sorry I didn't me- HAHAHAHAHA
  • jograt

    it works on our country.. i will not tell where i am :D
  • DirkGently

    Gotta be in the US. It's never been blocked in the US.
  • JusChillin

    USA! USA! USA!
  • WD

    >FOX News
    hurr durr sensationalist garbage
  • JusChillin

    >All News Channels
    hurr durr etc...
  • Andrew Lee

    I'm just curious if they think TPB will run out of domain host in the future. If they think so they're in for a big surprise considering that ICANN opened up TLD registration to anyone with a 100k.
    As long as there's the internet there will be piracy like it or not.
    What needs to be going on is building positive relationships with their fans. I mean you see lawsuits against fans in the hundreds of thousands, and really that is not good for their image at all
    How could you feel bad about downloading when you think the gatekeepers are fucking scumbags?
    It's much easier to support someone you like over someone you like, but has an evil shadow ready to rape the shit out of you. "Artist/Labels"
    I got some "whistle" popsicles in the cellar "whistle"
  • alex

  • Deep Blue

    Copying, sharing, reusing, remixing, etc are far older practices than copyright. I would say far more natural too.
  • icec0ld

    Copyright is an obsolete abstraction. It needs to be revised or ditched all together. Now it's only an excuse to rape the fandom with lawsuits and censor the net.
  • bobmail

    "Copyright is an obsolete abstraction."
    So why do you keep trying so hard to pirate the movies created as a result of this obsolete concept? why not download only the legal stuff creators are putting out there, and stop with this silly and mindless chase after the product of obsolete thinking?
    Your actions and your words don't match.
  • icec0ld

    I'll gladly buy digital copies of movies when they meet the following (rather basic) criteria.
    2. No DRM
    3. A price that reflects the lack of scarcity.
  • Alec Dumas Fetty

    Yes, because all movies and music are magic computer files which generate out of thin air on illegal websites with no physical effort time and money invested from the creators of those files. Pirate logic cracks me up. I have yet to see any public domain youtube cell phone video comparable to the latest Hollywood summer blockbuster in quality, but yes keep on spouting fairy tales and comparing five minutes and five cents worth of effort to years and hundreds of millions of much harder effort.
  • Scary_Devil_Monastery

    "Yes, because all movies and music are magic computer files which
    generate out of thin air on illegal websites with no physical effort
    time and money invested from the creators of those files."
    Completely irrelevant as none of your argument justifies the violation "copyright" performs on freedom of communication, messenger immunity, and ordinary property rights these days.
    Pirate logic? Try "the logic employed by Benjamin franklin and Thomas Jeffersson" you ignorant twit.
    Whereas none of you fanatical adherents of the sect of copyright can even make an argument without first lying.
  • bobmail

    Yet without copyright, would your "speech" even exist? Or would you be file trading nothing but zeros, because nobody told you where to put the ones...
    Oh wait:
    You probably don't understand the scope of the discussion anyway.
  • Madmac

    Oh piracy is killing movies.... right. Anyone who works on a hollywood movie... all the grubs... food people ... drivers... they ALL get paid weekly just like anyone else does. So boohoo... only the middlemen are likeley to lose anything.. Maybe the should negotiate better contracts with the so called stars. After all hollywood is the only industry that I know of in murika... that has not taken PAYCUTS. But then they are so much better than folks that actually work.

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