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Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Samuel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:17:48 -0000

Jacob, why do you say, "lousy copyright owners?" Do you think that all of us are rich? Well, guess what ... we're not. You see, you're looking at this as a way to attack the big studios, probably out of jealousy. You don't mind doing something illegal because it's against them. But what about people like me? I wanted to make a film, so I got a couple investors, spent about $20,000 of my own money (much of which I actually still owe on credit cards). And I only make about $45,000 a year, so I'm nowhere near rich.

The film was pretty well received and about six months ago, I was very close to distribution. But then it leaked from one of the production houses and was uploaded to numerous sites. So guess what happened? The distributor found out and dropped the contract two days before we were to finalize the deal. And because it's already available for free, no one else will touch it.

So a comment like "take that lousy copyright owners" really offends me because people don't realize that REAL people are hurt by this kind of thing. Now I'm in debt because of the upload and have investors to answer for. And as I said, I'm no rich guy ... just a father trying to take care of his family, just scraping by.

I'm sure you -- and most people who support the site -- don't care ... but what if someone purposely interrupted your way of making money for your family and left you in debt because of it, and then turned around and called you lousy?

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Name — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:31:29 -0000

the pirate bay is back google it and click the link :))))1

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Byte — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:15:19 -0000

HA HA Stan Schroeder you spoke too soon! Who's my douche bag?!?

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

knerdy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:52 -0000

They sold out.

Still, no doubt more will pop up in it's place, but the next big thing will have to be a free underground program that searches and shares torrents via a p2p network. if all the users are hosting the torrents, what are those who want to stop them going to do then?

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Stan Schroeder — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:55:02 -0000

Stan Schroeder should stick to posting bull on Michael Jackson. He obviously doesn't know what he is writing about as far as Pirate Bay, or does he. Maybe he is trying to gain readers. Guess that kinda backfired on him. Get a life Stan.

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:51:20 -0000

TPB is more than a site. Though the site may get shut down, even though it's back up, the ideal it carries will never die. People will always share files, even if it's illegal to do so. That's what it's all about.

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Esteban Hernandez — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:57:46 -0000

Whatcha talking about? I live in Egypt and as of 1 AM here (6 PM EST), I'm downloading 3 movies.....Long Live The Pirate Bay!!!!

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Marc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:09:13 -0000

Oh, great, a site goes down and it dies forever.. that's why twitter is no more... and facebook.. and google... oh, wait.. sometimes they appearantly just go down for some hours and go back online.. a miracle!!
People, especially those who survived the twitter outage, should wait with their obituaries... at least for some days...

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Anupam — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:03:50 -0000

Hey! ! !
TPB is again up and running..... atleast for NOW

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Nancy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:35:25 -0000

According to Yahoo Tech The courts in Stockholm temporarily sut down the site but it should be up and running. see http://go.cosmicthings.com/...
What do we make of that?

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

JobsLiver — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:20:59 -0000

I don't see how anyone who has been following this story for ANY amount of time could have truly thought this was 'the end' for TPB. It's a pretty interesting window in the tech journalists' heads... in that they pretty much just accepted the early reports verbatim, dusted their hands together and moved on to the next story.

The crew there has been extremely vocal and specific about the fact that it's impossible to take the site down. It's backed up in almost infinite places now, across the globe and with all the open/dark trackers out there, you'd have an easier time taking piss out of a swimming pool with a straw than you would seriously crippling TPB.

Honestly any tech reporter that wrote a 'final nail in the coffin' story about this should hang up their credentials and pick a new profession. You simply don't understand how the internet works.. and that's a big thing to miss.

Laughable, actually.

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Jacob — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:36:14 -0000

Check your info buddy. The site is back online. If you look on the official blog, the total downtime is listed at like 3 hrs. Take that u lousy copyright owners!

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

mobiusinformer — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:40:33 -0000

Don't be so sure of that. http://newsdesk.se/view/pre...

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

dooda — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:14:05 -0000

good riddance. the madoff of the web.

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

campuslive — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:09:16 -0000

site works perfect. FAIL!

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Ben — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:57:46 -0000

TPB was already back online when you posted this... supreme piece of journalistic work!

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Street.Walker — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:47:21 -0000

I believe next day another site will born,

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Matthew — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:03:10 -0000

ISP got there too late! Several hundreds of thousands of people have already downloaded ThePirateBay complete torrent! Somebody will make a new one. Or I will just have to go to Mininova...

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Alissa — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:36:29 -0000

So guys, let's guess who is next in the big guys crosshairs... mininova? demonoid? torrentz?

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

PALCOLA — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:07:05 -0000

I NEVER CAN FUND SOME GOOD NICE FILM IN THE PIRET

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Dravenwoodward — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:06:57 -0000

We are an idea, we can never die and we will keep making newer sites until these stupid self serving companies go away or come up with a comprimise. But we never comprimse for th sake of freedom, arrrrrgh.

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:02:16 -0000

This solves one problem for ISP like Ireland's Eircom that were under a lot of pressure from the media industry to block the Pirate Bay, and then received a customer backlash when they agreed.

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

twe4ked — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:53:14 -0000

Arrgg, it be a sad day for Pirates ery'where!

Re: The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

Sammy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:50:17 -0000

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