Year of the storm
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!
Pirate Bay for Life!
LONG LIVE FREE INFORMATION
LONG LIVE UNITY
unity through faith.
2 years i share on tpb, 8 years i piracy internet and now since the web exist, never the government and others lobby from musical, movies industry want to control this source of culture, they want to tell us what we must listen, see share and think...the darks days coming my brothers, we must fight for our liberty of thinking, sharing, listening, talking, living!!!
long live to all torrent sites around the world, long live to all pirates, long live to the pirate bay a
I can't wait for the next wave of file-sharing technology!
LONG LIVE PIRATE BAY!
And damn proud of it!
With a pirates yell, standing tall and proud, I raise my glass...
Salute, Skål, Skaal, Slainte, Gan Bei, Kanpai, Che Loong, Ge Natz,
Ji Ve Li, Salud, Prost... CHEERS!
"TPBGirl" in Tennessee
Long live TPB!
Good luck and congratulations.
"Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar."
20.16.2!
At first I had my doubts and fears of registering but since I am a user of thepiratebay and have been for a long time now, I just went with THE FLOW OF LOOOOVE BABY!!! :)
This A.C.T.A. is just like a BIG UNIVERSAL BANG here in our country! One of our empy minded polititians has allready singed the paper agreement of A.C.T.A. and there is a lot of anger, fear and confusion!
As far as I am consurned it changes nothing, because I have hope and faith that ALL WILL ALLRIGHT!!!
Three chears for the pirates!!! :) ARRRRRRGH
NEVER GIVE UP HOPE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO, THEY OWN YOU...
I will voting PiratPartiet if a could :)
good luck TPB!
Saludos desde Uruguay!
with yaz all the way.
Long live The Pirate Bay!
“We are in the beginning of the greatest change that humanity has ever undergone. There is no shock, no epoch-making incident — but then there is no shock at a cloudy daybreak. At no point can we say, "Here it commences, now; last minute was night and this is morning." But insensibly we are in the day. If we care to look, we order, and presently a deliberate improvement of the blood and character of the race. And what we can see and imagine gives us a measure and gives us faith for what surpasses the imagination.
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is
All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars.â€
H. G. Wells,
THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE
and CHEERS to piratebay and related sites that for helping us out so we can get equal share of the products as any other who can buy 'em and equally enjoy 'em
AWESOME ^_^
will remember of this as a start for something. As a site which helped to open eyes, when other want them shut.
Now it might seem it's world wide site and bunch of pirates
hackers, and other personas on invisable side. Who trying to keep humanity free with it's own right for which somehow they find "legal" way.
.. But in future , who knows what it gonna wake up in humans. Maybe new society ,new movements which will become
part of government, which one day disappear , and world will be free , as there free wasts in web...
SAIL AWAY!
It's FREEDOM or it's SLAVERY!
It's FREE SPEECH or it's SLAVERY!
Either WE show muscles or THEY will!
We have to fight for our freedom. We have to take a stand for our right. If we don't then internet will be controlled by big corporations, not just in the sense of "their rights to make money", but also in the sense of "their right to control who uses the internet".
Long 9 years yeah if is up to me we do another 900 years.
And for those dutch who are being blocked, get yourself a VPN or a proxy and .... that CORPORATE GOVERNMENTS and all that ....... organizations that think there the big boss that can controls your INTERNET.
Long Live TPB, The King from all site's.
And, Abut Cencorship On TPB, Let Them Dream To do So, Coz, There'll Always free to Dream Abut but It's (Almost) Immposible To Attain Them For SOPA/PIPA/ACTA.
And, TPB Will Definately Survive , A Real Hero Has To Give Many "Xams" To Prove It's Heroic Abilities. ( Well, I too Have An 'Xam' ,Btw. )
;)
They cannot stand the force of our unity to stop us with SOPA/ACTA/PIPA! All the people of the world, rich or poor, counts on you!
Alfred Pennyworth: One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne: So why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Long live tpb~
"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"
Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011
Keep on sailing that boat that rocked...
Like a Island in Middle on Sea. I think we are a community, a race, a nation apart from the whole world, We THE PIRATE BAY and its user.
I LOVE The Pirate Bay - Long LIVE The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay,
Als een eiland in Midden-on Sea. Ik denk dat we een gemeenschap, een ras, een natie los van de hele wereld, We The Pirate Bay en de gebruiker.
Ik hou van The Pirate Bay - Long Live The Pirate Bay
someone on torrentfreak wrote this:
But looking at the nameserver records for thepiratebay.SE, they are listed as ns0 - ns3.thepiratebay.ORG so if ICE did seize thepiratebay.ORG, it would go down.
They need to change their nameserver records for the new .SE domain to ns0 - ns3.thepiratebay.SE (if they have registered them)!
"Together, we are the iron that hardens with each strike." -TPB
Long Live The Pirate Bay.
Greetings from Croatia
TPB creators and upkeepers, whoever you are, I salute you.
Best wishes from Serbia.
long live "The Pirate Bay",,power to Seeders!!
"Can't stop the signal"
TPB forever
Oh ya, good job.
When The Gov't Comes in to Play...
TPB All Fucking Day.
Long Live.
From nonexistent bookshops to nonexistent music shops, nonexistent movie theaters, video rentals, radio stations, TV stations that aren't full of old 50s and 60s reruns or so heavily edited as to defy their original purpose - I would love to be able to buy modern media - but I can't, so my only recourse is to continue to depend on the kindness of strangers, both the people who make torrents and share them, and those that make that possible.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart - you make living in a cultural void possible
Long live the pirate bay.
The ship sails away from the reach of the Yankee..
sailed to the vikings oceans
YAY!
not a law will stop us or kill us, 'cause our belief will always be alive!
long life pirates!
In all seriousness, you're doing a great job TPB guys.
L O N G L I V E T H E P I R A T E B A Y .
Thanks to everyone
I hope they never ever catch you guys!!
Those F**king People that call themselves the Goverment, all they care about is MONEY,MONEY and MONEY.
When they ever shut down the pirate bay or censor all kinds of the internet.
The real people like you and me should go on to the streets and UNITE !! COME TOGETHER AS ONE !!
THE PIRATE BAY 4 EVER !!!!!
WE'LL KEEP FIGHTING BECAUSE NO-ONE CAN RESTRING KNOWLEDGE.
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LONG LIVE THEPIRATEBAY
LONG LIVE GNU/Linux
Yay!
NONE can stop our community..............
LONG LIVE P2P Sharing
LONG LIVE TPB
Well, Bobby, I was an activist. I wanted free shit without paying for it, and we got it in the end.
ahooo...ahooo..ahoooooo \m/
Give them hell, we want online freedom!!
suits best for the situation
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
Good always win over evil, and even though everyone PRETENDS to be the good side, we know we ARE, and I think most of them know they are NOT.
Because they will earn less money when we win.
Because people who still think that real artists suffer losses because of us are fewer and fewer.
Because WE are getting more and more people to hate the mass consumption crap THEY serve them on the radio and television.
Because WE are making real artists known all over the world, including the ones who made it to the top thanks t
thanks to US and now complain about us making them earn less money than they could if we stopped right now, what would be true indeed...
Thanks to YOU, pirats, my culture is HUGE (like this comment), very far "beyond my means" as THEY would want us to accept, whereas if you werent here I would have been fed with their braintoasting crap for a lifetime.
Thanks to YOU, all these retards who are TODAY the most important part of rich countries and, lets face it, the only real thing that holds us back will BECOME clever, thinking, able to do better things than hating each other !
You are building a better humanity. You are building a better world, where art cant be sold, but given and rewarded proportionally with the means of each one, financial, advertising, whatever. This way you are even building a better art. DONT-YOU-EVER-STOP.
For myself, I think I will stop here. I mean this comment. =)
¡Saludos desde Argentina!
No more dictators, we have had enough in Brazil!!
Live 4Ever TPB!!!
Även om vi har mycket att klaga på i Sverige så kan vi i alla fall vara stolta över THE PIRATE BAY - VÄRLDENS STÖRSTA TORRENT TRACKER - HURRA HURRA HURRA HURRA!
Gracias por esta gran labor The Pirate Bay.
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For a world where information and education can be shared with people around us. For freedom of speech and expression and the construction of a better future.
Thanks for this great work The Pirate Bay.
I'll support you until the absolute end of the internet :3
Why did they mess with us and we do not do the same with them, I say, f*ck them, and Hack the crap out of their sites. if We Can, We should, give them Hell back as an response, To their stupid way of thinking!
South Africa is with you!
greetingz from the netherlands where our ISP are blocking thepiratebay since yesterday
the consummation of immaterial things and absolute free information is imo the only way out of the bad jam were in.
TPB is my hope for humankind (:
I admire your work.
Know that there are millions people behind you.
We Are Anonymous
We Are Legion
We Do Not Forgive Censorship
We Do Not Forget Our Rights As Human Beings
United States Government...Expect Us
Make ACTA walk the plank, with a bottle of rum and a yo-ho-ho!
I will live and die for the cause!
It's so great great that you still fighting for freedom!
Yesterday in Ukraine really great website ex.ua was closed, they were giving same opportunities for people as you do. And just because high authorities decided so - website is closed!
So don't give up!!! It's so awful when there is no freedom in net.