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Fuzzy Logic Pirate Bay de-scuppered and back on Yahoo
Fuzzy Logic Pirate Bay de-scuppered and back on Yahoo | Pirate Bay de-scuppered and back on Yahoo |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Friday, 22 February 2008 | |
  
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Quite what is going on at Yahoo HQ is anyone’s guess, distracted as they are by Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid, but it’s clear that the Pirate Bay is back with a re-listing on the Yahoo search engine. News.com.au mentioned their contact with the Australian Yahoo service, Yahoo7, elicited no meaningful reply other than a stock standard ‘no comment’. Torrent news website, The Torrent Freak, scored an interview with one of the Pirate Bay’s founders, Brokep, when news of the de-listing first broke. He told TorrentFreak at the time that: “It’s dangerous to trust a company like Yahoo! when they filter the searches. It’s a new China, but this time Yahoo is the dictator. Yahoo should let the governments decide, not themselves. It’s dangerous when companies take the law into their own hands.” The Pirate Bay’s ‘Court Blog’ section, noted in bold at the bottom of their site, is where we would have expected to find more information about their legal battles. However that particular page is down and returns an error that the page cannot be displayed. However their regular ‘blog’ is working, with the last post from on 31st of January 2008, where they celebrated for ‘millions of reasons’, saying they track “over 1 million torrents”, had over “10 million simultaneous peers on the trackers” and have “2.5 million active users”. Although the Pirate Bay has suffered a range of legal actions and threats, and is under new legal action from US and Swedish authorities now, their blog states that: “In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site. The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We've been here for years and we will be here many more”. |
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