Pirate Bay sinks under electric storm

moving to sealand?

or, more likely, the inclusion on the graphic is just a joke to put people off the trail.

"I wanna be a pirate!"

Love that picture.

That would be great

If TPB gets $7.7 M for selling their site, it would be great if it was all paid to the RIAA as compensation for illegally gotten revenue. Maybe there is justice in this world?

AC 15:57

If there is justice in this world, you walked into a lamp-post just after clicking 'Post comment' ;-)

@AC 15:57

Except, in the UK at least, you can't profit from the proceeds of crime, so their cash would be confiscated and they'd still end up with the fine/prison time.

Well...

...it's working now...

@Playmobile

YES we need and want our law enforcement and judicial systems to enforce copyright laws. That is why we have copyright laws. If every pirate was fined $10,000 per title you can bet there would be a lot fewer pirates and those who get caught a second time could spend a long, long time in prison. Punishment is meant as a deterrent. You will always have dirtbags who can't live within the laws of society. That is why we have prisons.

punishment and deterrent?

Punishment makes sense when there's an actual *theft* - an act that deprives a property owner of the use of that property. Electronic copying never deprives anyone of anything. At worst, they should simply be collecting the same fee they would have collected through an ordinary retail purchase, because that is the total extent of damage they could possibly have experienced.

Anything beyond that is Piracy, yes, but it's piracy committed by the RIAA and MPAA against ordinary citizens.

The System is Rigged ..... Change it and IT with IT ....

.... and Carefully Constructed Shared Words/New[s] Ideas.

If TPB were SMARTer than the average Renegade into Renaissance, they would be Streaming their Own ProgramMING rather than Advising on the Facilitation of Third Party Supplies which are supplied basically for Free.

It is somewhat perverse that to Freely List and Advertise the Location of a Copyrighted Stream in Third Party Possession for Selfless Sharing and Expansion of Digital Knowledge is Penalised to Produce an Intellectually Bankrupt Crime and Popular Martyr.

Maybe that is the Global Gaming Factory X AB Master Plan to Bust through the AIBlockade. NeuReal ProgramMING Projects with XXXXPerienced Private Pirate Drivers...... Something Completely New and therefore presumably a Level Foreign Intelligence Field for Everyone. Lead then will be just down to to how Good and True would be One's Shared Imagination/Streamed Consciousness......... which is AIMMORPGaming Territory, Most Definitely, and IT runs in Parallel with Live Operational Virtual Environments too, with the One Drivering the Other into Novel Future Situations for Realisation , which is really then Virtualisation Technology Smoothly Working as IT Can and Should and therefore Will.

For any Good Program though, IT needs to Provide a Great Gaming XSSXXXXual Script able to Relate and Sublimely Mentor to All Levels through a Ubiquitous Permanent Natural Base Link. Then does the Great Game lead Reality, Virtually and Remotely. :-)

Oh, Yes IT does. :-)

And that puts the $7.7m. purchase price on a pedestal as the Current Steal of the Century, for there is no Limit to the Cash which Great Games can Generate and Distribute ....and that has them in Direct Active Competition to Bankers who only Distribute Third Party Wealth XXXXStreamly Badly amongst Themselves....... in an Incestuous Circle of Diseased Conceit and Chronic Suicidal Toxicity.

Every criminal in prison is innocent

Just like the lies that pirates tell themselves, every criminal in prison is innocent. Denial don't change reality or the law. Get use to it or you'll be spending a lot of time at the iron bar hotel.

@ AC 16:42

Let he who is innocent cast the first stone.

I'm fully in support of pirates being fined for the legal infraction, about $100 and restitution of the value of the work stolen (about $1 USD per MP3), so long as everyone else is held accountable for each instance (not just when caught as it is now but EVERY time) of speeding, jaywalking, and the myriad ways you can blow you nose and break some IP law at the same time.

Who without an agenda whines about teenagers sharing MP3s when you can go on any major road and see people arguably risking others' lives by the simple act of speeding, let alone the more serious ills in this world.

To focus on trivial things is to deliberately ignore the worst evils in this world, which when you get down to it is part of the problem in the first place. Musicians used to play captive for a private audience or what the public chose to pay after hearing them, there was always the option for that musician to find another line of work and the same is true today if they don't accept the pay for the job. Same with anyone else in the entertainment or content industry, we are not holding a gun to their heads and forcing their method of income.

What annoys me....

What annoys me is these whining music and movie companies saying they have lost tons and tons of money. They haven't lost anything, it's just money they haven't made. They talk about it like it's money they are entitled to, regardless of if the product is good or not. "we made this so give us your money"

How long have things like napster, kazaa, bit torrent etc etc etc been around now ? must be at least ten years. If all these companies keep "losing" as much money as they say, then why arent they all bankrupt now ?