Pirate Bay Moves to Guyana After Domain Suspension, 70 Domains to Go

[joshcryer]

Source: Torrent Freak

The Pirate Bay has set sail to a new domain for the third time in a week. After just a few days Peru decided to suspend the site’s .PE domain forcing the torrent site to move to the Guyana-based .GY ccTLD. The Pirate Bay team is not too worried about the domain whack-a-mole and says they have some 70 domain names in reserve, and plenty of other options for people to access the site.

The past week has been a busy one for The Pirate Bay’s IT department, with the site skipping from domain to domain every other day.

After pressure from anti-piracy group BREIN the notorious BitTorrent site first lost its .SX domain. In a response The Pirate Bay moved to Ascension Island’s .AC ccTLD, and facing another suspension it switched to Peru’s .PE domain a few days later.

However, TPB did not receive a warm welcome in Peru either.

Read more: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-guyana-131218/

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This marks the 7th time this year TPB has had to change its domain. The war on TPB continues.

Mods: Torrent Freak is a legitimate news source and they are the first to break this since it literally happened in the past hour or so, I can add a more adequate link later if asked.

[Penicilino]

1. Looks like the Guyana site is already down

I can't connect.

[joshcryer]

2. The DNS change just happened in the last hour.

Should give it some time for your DNS to update if you're interested in going to the new domain.

edit: wow it may in fact be changing again. Incredible if so but I have to sleep. Someone can update the post if it changes again in less than an hour... wow...

edit 2: it works here for me now

[davidpdx]

3. Whack a mole is exactly what it is

I sure as hell wouldn't use one of the sites if I were in the US given that companies are tracking down IP addresses. Where I am at there is no real enforcement.

[joshcryer]

4. While I always use TPB for legtimate sources*, you can use PeerGuardian to protect from the rest.

*note, I have never used TPB for legitimate sources, just for full disclosure here. Who cares. It's TPB. We know what it exists for. The United States is supposed to be the Gold Standard for free speech. We are failing at it.

In all seriousness, IP trackers, and suers, go after seeders. Delete the .torrent immeditately upon finsihing (loading cmd.exe and running taskkill /im myprocess.exe /f is also useful, but it requires a trigger like poweroff.exe which you should put in you path or use "shutdown -s" in you run programs directive).

[Pakhet]

5. I wish I could Rec t;his post

Most informative. Thank you

[cprise]

6. This is dangerous advice

This advice was useful perhaps 5 years ago, not now. PeerGuardian will not protect you from large media companies that have cooperative agreements with ISPs to track down transmission of their content.

It also doesn't make sense to tell people to avoid seeding, because A) telling people to become leeches defeats the purpose of the torrents and can lead to them becoming unavailable in the first place, and B) your torrent client will start uploading data long before the download finishes.

If you're worried about the legal status of file transfers its better to torrent them over I2P instead: Traffic there is fully anonymized and "garlic routed" (a variation on onion routing) so its a "strong"/thorough solution that even the NSA is unlikely to undermine. You can also use I2P for all sorts of other communication, so its useful to have anyway if your concerned about privacy. http://geti2p.net

[politichew]

7. I use various paid VPN services.

And haven't received a warning letter from my ISP in over 4 years.