Monday, May 24, 2010

Torrents - 2010 May 24 MO

All is not well in torrent land today.

First, let me just state that today's Alex Jones has been uploaded, but not to The Pirate Bay. For the last half hour attempts to upload there simply time out after a wait of several minutes.

The torrent was successfully uploaded to ExtraTorrent.com, Fenopy.com, BTJunkie.org and Demonoid.com.

The Alex Jones Show - May 24 MO
Torrage link: HERE

Magnet link: HERE

Update: Finally was able to upload at PrirateBay!

I will shortly be updating this post with details about TPB and the OpenBitTorrent.com tracker.



TorrentFreak delivers this news:
Hollywood Lands Triple Strike On Pirate Bay, OpenBitTorrent

With the assistance of the Svea Court of Appeals, the main Hollywood movie studios have landed a triple blow on OpenBitTorrent, The Pirate Bay and site founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij. The Court handed out three injunctions yesterday, one of which took the OpenBitTorrent tracker offline.

After months out of the headlines, The Pirate Bay has been dramatically back in the spotlight in recent weeks. After threatening its bandwidth supplier CB3ROB back in April, the main Hollywood studios obtained an injunction hoping to take the site offline.

This week the pressure became too much and facing huge potential damages and a possible jail sentence for its owner, CB3ROB had to cease providing bandwidth to the site, which effectively shut it down – for a few hours.

In typical Pirate Bay style the site bounced back, supported by controversial hosting provided by the Swedish Pirate Party.

Even though the site was down for a short time, file transfers didn’t stop as those continued to be facilitated by DHT, PEX and the separate OpenBitTorrent (OBT) tracker. Hosted in Sweden, OBT also made the news this week when a court ruled Wednesday that ISP Portlane must hand over the identities of its operators to the movie studios.

Although that decision could be appealed, the OpenBitTorrent site and tracker suddenly went offline in the last 24 hours. It now transpires that the Svea Court of Appeals was busy yesterday, issuing three injunctions on behalf of the studios.
Read the whole article, including text of the injunctions at TorrentFreak.com.

OpenBitTorrent.com is one of four trackers that I have been using lately. Thankfully the other three are working normally as of now. Once again I'm happy that I build in a certain amount of redundancy in the procedures I follow.



What Really Happened with Mike Rivero - May 24 MO
Torrage link: HERE

Magnet link: HERE

The Pirate Bay was working much more smoothly when I was ready to upload the Rivero show. Unfortunately, OpenBitTorrent.com is still down.

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