My experience so far, though, in uploading yesterday's three torrents to get caught-up is that uploads happen painfully slowly and sometimes require multiple attempts. Hopefully the gears will be running smoothly very soon.
TPB -- these days calling itself "the world’s most resilient BitTorrent tracker" -- had a little help from a unique benefactor in pulling off its reanimation. TorrentFreak tells the story:
"Today, on 18 May, the Swedish Pirate Party took over the delivery of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay," says the Party’s Rick Falkvinge in a statement.
"We got tired of Hollywood’s cat and mouse game with the Pirate Bay so we decided to offer the site bandwidth," he adds. "It is time to take the bull by the horns and stand up for what we believe is a legitimate activity."
The Pirate Party say they will provide bandwidth to the site’s homepage and search engine.
"The Pirate Bay is a search engine, and as such it is not responsible for the results," notes Falkvinge.
The Party adds the attempts at censoring The Pirate Bay "is an attempt to silence one of today’s most important opinion makers in matters of civil liberties and rights on the web," adding that it is "nothing less than political censorship, and something that any democratic-minded person must reject."
With a general election coming up in Sweden, the Pirate Party’s move is also an attempt to reiterate what the Pirate Party stands for.
"It feels great to get an opportunity like this to demonstrate that we put our money were our mouth is," Falkvinge told TorrentFreak. "We’re not your run-of-the-mill politician who commissions reports and spends 8 hours a day avoiding blame. We’re people committing our own resources and time to the values we believe in."
"The only thing we have in common with today’s politicians is that you can vote for us, and I hope this demonstrates how we are prepared to take responsibility for civil liberties and the future of the net in a very direct way," he added.
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