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Originally Posted by Robbie
Heh, I had no idea that they had changed to a .se
Makes sense I suppose. Sweden is pretty much a haven for piracy.
I bow down to gideon and damian's knowledge of what thieves are doing. I don't keep track of them because they are thieves and I don't go to their site to steal.
I apologize to gideon and damian. Your knowledge of criminal activity is far superior to mine.  |
The reason is this:
Site domain moved to .se
Maybe you've noticed that we're now thepiratebay.SE instead of thepiratebay.ORG? The reason is two-fold.
First is the issue of SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/TPP/<insert enormous amounts of acronyms here>. The United States of America have decided that they control the internet and can dictate it. This means that having a domain controlled in the end by an american entity could cause them to take control over it. So we wanted to move away from that scenario.
Choosing which TLD to change to was the next question. We have two roots at The Pirate Bay, Mexico and Sweden. With our old friends not being granted an appeal in their case in Sweden and at the same time their opponents essentially claiming Sweden as a hollywood-militarized-zone we wanted to make a statement. So we changed to a .SE domain name. We're not sure it's the best choice since one of the people working with the .SE domain arbitration happens to be the lawyer for the Hollywood companies in Sweden, in the case against our friends. But at the same time, that lawyer must now be seen as having a conflict of interest.
.SE also supports DNSSEC so we're going to use that. It will make the current censorships against our domain names a bit harder to implement. It will break DNS. This might be a good thing since it will make it harder for courts to agree to DNS censorship.
What ever happens with the domain we use or will have to move to in the future is not important. The fight we're doing is important. And you're all part of it, every one of you. Let's keep going!
http://thepiratebay.se/blog/205