company:the pirate bay

’The Pirate Bay of Science’ Continues to Get Attacked Around the World
After publishers sued #Sci-Hub, Russian ISPs are now preventing users from accessing the valuable scientific data repository and paywall killer.

▻https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/gy7d7j/sci-hub-and-lib-gen-continue-to-get-attacked-around-the-world

Sci-Hub has shown time and again that it’s better at cat-and-mouse than the giant science publishing monopolies it undermines,” activist and author Cory Doctorow said in an email exchange with Motherboard.

“That said, unless your science is public, it’s not science, it’s just alchemy,” Doctorow added. “With the major science funders around the world declaring war on the likes of Springer, it’s bizarre that they’re focused on Sci-Hub, rather than addressing the fact that the entire world of science practitioners and funders thinks that they’re useless and greedy parasites.”

▻https://telegram.me/scihubot

Pirate Bay ’borrows’ visitor CPUs to mine virtual coins
▻https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/16/pirate-bay-hijacks-cpus-for-digital-currency-mining

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« Si c’est gratuit, tu es le produit »

Piracy websites can’t really depend on ads, so how do they make money? By using your PC’s processor cycles, apparently — whether you want to or not. Visitors to The Pirate Bay have discovered JavaScript code in the website that ’borrows’ your processor for the sake of mining Monero digital coins. It doesn’t always happen (it mainly appears in search results and category listings), but you’ll definitely notice the sharp spike in CPU usage when it kicks in.

The site tells TorrentFreak that it was testing the feature for about 24 hours as a new way of generating revenue, and that it could eventually be enough to replace ads. In short, don’t be surprised if this becomes a mainstay of the site going forward. Users have found that they can block the miner through their browser settings or add-ons like ad blockers, so it’s not inescapable.

Without warnings, however, many inexperienced visitors won’t even realize what’s happening, let alone figure out how to stop it. And that’s the real concern. While there isn’t much sympathy to be had for pirate site hosts eager for revenue, the unsuspecting visitors are another story — they didn’t ask to bog down their systems.

#Monnaie_numérique #Pirate_Bay #confiance

European court of justice rules #Pirate_Bay is infringing copyright | Technology | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/15/pirate-bay-european-court-of-justice-rules-infringing-copyright-torrent

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The European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay is directly infringing copyright, in a move that could lead to ISPs and governments blocking access to other torrent sites across Europe.

The ruling comes after a seven-year legal battle, which has seen the site, founded in Sweden in 2003, blocked and seized, its offices raided, and its three founders fined and jailed.

Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and other “Pirate” Sites

Si c’est la vrai, ça n’est pas rien.

▻https://torrentfreak.com/internet-backbone-provider-cogent-blocks-pirate-bay-and-other-pirate-s

Several Pirate Bay users from ISPs all over the world have been unable to access their favorite torrent site for more than a week. Their requests are being stopped in the Internet backbone network of Cogent Communications, which has blackholed the CloudFlare IP-address of The Pirate Bay and many other torrent and streaming sites.

[...]

The sites in question all use CloudFlare, which assigned them the public IP-addresses 104.31.18.30 and 104.31.19.30. While this can be reached just fine by most people, users attempting to pass requests through Cogent’s network are unable to access them.

The issue is not limited to a single ISP and affects a small portion of users all over the world, the United States and Europe included. According to Cogent’s own backbone routing check, it applies to the company’s entire global network.

[...]

For now, however, we can only speculate what the reason or target is. Since so many of the sites involved are accused of facilitating copyright infringement, it seems reasonable to view that as a possible cause. However, this remains unconfirmed for now.

#net_neutrality
#the_pirate_bay
#Cogent #AS174

Welcome to the Pirate Bay of science.
Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge.
▻http://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-uploaded-millions-of-journal-articles-in-an-a
#science #share

Pirate Bay cofounder invents an infernal device that will utterly bankrupt the music industry / Boing Boing
▻http://boingboing.net/2015/12/22/pirate-bay-cofounder-invents-a.html

The record industry insists that all unauthorized copies represent lost sales. So Peter “brokep” Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has built a machine that makes 100 copies per second of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” storing them in /dev/null (which is to say, deleting them even as they’re created).

#musique #copyright #pirate_bay

mercredi 4 mars 2015 - Lille Moulins - Projection : The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
▻http://lille.demosphere.eu/rv/2844
#autonomie

Pirate Bay Won’t Make A Full Comeback, Staff Revolt
By Ernesto ▻https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-wont-make-a-full-comeback-staff-revolt-150127

Breaking

According to insiders The Pirate Bay will slim down its operations for the planned comeback. The new version of the site is expected to operate without former admins and moderators, who have responded furiously to the decision. Many key staffers have left the ship to launch their own TPB.

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#the_pirate_bay #dissidence #p2p

Blog of Peter Sunde — Copy me happy

▻http://blog.brokep.com

The Pirate Bay down, forever ?
December 9th, 2014

signalé par @fil lors d’une grande valse viennoise

News just reached me that The Pirate Bay has been raided, again. That happened over 8 years ago last time. That time, a lot of people went out to protest and rally in the streets. Today few seem to care. And I’m one of them.

Why, you might ask? Well. For multiple reasons. But most of all, I’ve not been a fan of what TPB has become.

TPB has become an institution that people just expected to be there. Noone willing to take the technology further. The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code and old design. It never changed except for one thing – the ads. More and more ads was filling the site, and somehow when it felt unimaginable to make these ads more distasteful they somehow ended up even worse.

#piratbay

The Pirate Bay is now down forever.
►http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever

Farewell - long live copyright infringement !

#jeu #crypto #pirate : textz.com reported to have released the complete works of Theodor W. Adorno

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

London, November 28, 2014

Today, textz.com has released its long-rumored “Complete Historical-Critical Edition” as a torrent on The Pirate Bay (1). The encrypted archive is supposed to contain the source code of all published and unpublished versions of the website, from around 1999 to 2006, and thousands of pirated e-books, allegedly including the complete works of Theodor W. Adorno in digital form.

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Between 2000 and 2004, textz.com was one of the most popular online sources for pirated digital literature. In October 2014, the website has resurfaced as an “Alternate Reality Game” whose participants are confronted with a series of cryptograhic puzzles (2). It is expected that solving the game will let players decrypt the complete textz.com archives that were released today.

(1) ▻https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/11582339

(2) ▻http://textz.com/arg

‘Free.mp3 (The Pirate Bay Song)’ Dedicated To TPB Founders Gottfrid Svartholm And Peter Sunde

The song - “Free.mp3” - is catch and upbeat, it talks about how the music industry is scared of the concept of file-sharing.

“We admire enthusiasts like people from The Pirate Bay, people like Edward Snowden, people from Wikileaks - who are fighting big corporations and governments - not for profit but because they believe in these ideals, even at the price of their own personal freedoms. It is always inspiring to see people who are finding the way to outsmart the system,” Vedran revealed.

▻http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/568476/20141002/pirate-bay-song-tribute-founders-peter-gottfrid.htm

▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS8-nNhWlw4

​Sanctity of copying: Imprisoned Pirate Bay co-founder demands Kopimist priest — RT News
▻http://rt.com/news/175848-pirate-bay-founder-kopimist-priest
▻http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/2a/ee/80/00/7978770404_10417a537b_o_copy.si.jpg

The incarcerated co-founder of torrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has found a new way to be a thorn in the back of Swedish authorities holding him. He demands that his religious needs are met with a visit from a Kopimist priest.

#pirates #sacré @brokep

Anodyne creators earn over $12K from Pirate Bay promotion | News | PC Gamer
▻http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/02/21/anodyne-pirate-bay

When Anodyne developers Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka decided to run a promotion for their top-down surreal adventure on The Pirate Bay, it cost them just $7. In a lengthy blog post, Hogan breaks down the results of that unconventional and cheap form of outreach, revealing that the indie duo accrued an astonishing $12,000 over 72 hours from increased traffic to the game’s sale last weekend.

#jeux_vidéo #publicité #pirate_bay

The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard - YouTube
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eTOKXCEwo_8#at=1464

1h22 de reportage sur la fondation et les fondateurs de The Pirate Bay Tags : internetactu2net fing internetactu #video

Evasive action: How The Pirate Bay four dodged Swedish justice—for a while | Ars Technica

Des nouvelles de notre ami de Pirat Bay... signalé par @fil

►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/evasive-maneuvers-how-the-pirate-bay-founders-dodged-swedish-justice/3

by Cyrus Farivar - Oct 4 2012

Evasive action: How The Pirate Bay four dodged Swedish justice—for a while. The site’s founders have moved out of Sweden, but Stockholm wants them back.

Of the four, Peter Sunde has been the most outspoken about the case. That’s probably because between August 2005 and August 2009 he was the spokesperson for The Pirate Bay. Both on his lawyer’s appeal to the European Court of Human Rights and on his own website, he declares his “home base” to be in Berlin. Last month, Sunde wrote to Ars saying that he was in Sweden “for the moment,” but prosecutors haven’t kept close tabs on him.

#pirat-bay

You’ll be on a list 3 hrs after you start downloading from pirates - study • The Register
►http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/p2p_copyright_enforcement_study

Researchers at the UK’s University of Birmingham reached the finding at the end of a two-year study into how organisations are monitoring illegal file sharers.

They conclude that large scale monitoring of the most popular illegal downloads from The Pirate Bay has been taking place over the last three years. On average an illegal file sharer, using BitTorrent to download the most popular content, will be picked up and logged within three hours of starting a download. Downloads of more popular files tend to be picked up more quickly

#bittorrent #surveillance #hadopi

Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay Spokesperson, Details Why His Conviction Was A Farce | Techdirt
►http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120709/03210219621/peter-sunde-pirate-bay-spokesperson-details-why-his-conviction-was-farce.s

Peter notes that the prosecution has effectively admitted that he didn’t actually do the stuff he was convicted of, but claims that doesn’t change his responsibility. Seriously. Here’s the rough automated translation:
That the work of the Court of Appeal found Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi begun in late 2005 may not have resulted in actual service until the time of the raid against TPB, does not affect the responsibility of the act for which Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi convicted.
In other words, he didn’t provide the actual services he was convicted of, but that doesn’t make him any less responsible for the things he didn’t actually do. Swedish justice in action.

#pirate #suède #justice #hadopi

Windows Live Messenger Now Censors Links to The Pirate Bay
►http://www.geekosystem.com/windows-messenger-censors-pirate-bay-links

#censure #pirate #internet

Domain Registrar Confirms New Pirate Bay Investigation | TorrentFreak
►http://torrentfreak.com/domain-registrar-confirms-new-pirate-bay-investigation-120314

Police have requested the company to reveal the personal details of the customer who registered The Pirate Bay domain name.

Il va bientôt falloir employer des « garants de moralité » pour déposer les #noms_de_domaine. Tout comme Sartre était devenu gérant de La Cause du peuple après l’embastillement de Michel Le Bris.
#censure #internet #pirate

Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It’s Only 90 MB | TorrentFreak
►http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-its-only-90-mb-120209

Using this script, “allisfine” managed to copy the title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents. Comments were not copied to keep the files as small as possible, and the end result is a full copy of all magnet links on The Pirate Bay in a 90 megabytes file, 164 megabytes unzipped.

BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good | TorrentFreak
►http://torrentfreak.com/btjunkie-shuts-down-for-good-120206

Talking to TorrentFreak, BTjunkie’s founder said that the legal actions against other file-sharing sites such as MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay played an important role in making the difficult decision. Witnessing all the trouble colleagues got into was cause for a lot of worry and stress, and those will now belong to the past.

Year of the storm - The Pirate Bay
►http://thepiratebay.se/blog/204

2012 is the year of the storm.

The Pirate Bay will reach an age of 9 years. Experiencing raids, espionage and death threats, we’re still here. We’ve been through hell and back and it has made us tougher than ever.

The people running the site has changed during the years. No sane human being would put up with this kind of pressure for 8 years in a row. An insane hobby that takes time from our families, our work (sorry boss) and our studies.

What binds us all together is a strong belief that what we do is good. That it is something we one day can tell our grandchildren about with pride. People from all over the world confirm this. We read testimonials from people in Syria longing for freedom, thanking us for what we provide. We receive more than 100 visits daily from North Korea and we sure know that they need it. If there’s something that will bring peace to this world it is the understanding and appreciation of your fellow man. What better way to do that than with this vast library of culture?

With this said, we hear news from our old admins that they have received a verdict in Sweden. Our 3 friends and blood brothers have been sentenced to #prison. This might sound worse than it is. Since no one of them no longer lives in Sweden, they won’t go to jail. They are as free today as they were yesterday.

But what enrages us to our inner core is that the system, the empire, the governments, are still allowed to try to boss you and us around with one law crazier than the other. Do you think they will stop with #SOPA/#ACTA/#PIPA? They will not. Because you won’t stop sharing those files. Because we will not stay down. Because no one can turn back time. Together, we are the iron that hardens with each strike.

In this year of the storm, the winners will build windmills and the losers will raise shelters. So flex your muscles, fellow pirates, and give power to us all! Build more sites! More nets! More protocols! Scream louder than ever and take it to the next level!

►http://static.thepiratebay.se/doodles/2012resistance.jpg

#pirates

The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car | TorrentFreak
►http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-wants-you-to-really-download-a-car-120124

Soon, the interest in digital files will take a new direction, not because they transform into music, movies or books, but because they will possess the ‘genetic’ code for physical objects.

“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles,” says The Pirate Bay as they announce a new 3D printing section of their site.

Pirate Bay offers its home page to promote indie artists
►http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/pirate-bay-offers-its-home-page-to-promote-indie-artists

Pirate Bay is launching Promo Bay, a way for indie artists to promote their material on Pirate Bay’s home page in up to three countries.

On a day when so much of the Internet is participating in a debate about the proposed U.S. SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy legislation, Sweden’s torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay—one of the Internet’s most infamous tools for setting hands on pirated copyrighted materials—has announced a new initiative called The Promo Bay. The Promo Bay invites independent artists—whether musicians, videographers, painters, cartoonists, comedians, or whatever—to submit their work for free promotion on The Pirate Bay’s home page. If the Pirate Bay thinks the material is neat, it will be queued up for promotion on Pirate Bay’s home page in up to three countries.

“We sometimes replace our front page logo with others,” the Pirate Bay wrote, explaining the deal. “Sometimes we link to important political issues like Internet censorship and sometimes it’s to some cool indie musicians we like. We would now like to improve this feature.”