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Arrr! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail

Danny Allen — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:18:33 +0000

Remember that Pirate Bay user who archived the site’s entire torrent index earlier this week? It’s available for all to download, but he’s now used it to create a full replica site. You can check it out at BTArena.net. [TorrentFreak]

Download The Pirate Bay’s Complete Archive With One Torrent

Danny Allen — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:30:41 +0000

With the Pirate Bay set to close in the next few days, one anonymous user has compiled a single massive archive of all 873,671 torrent files hosted on its servers.

The anonymous uploader who compiled this huge torrent told TorrentFreak that he wanted to have a backup of the site in case all torrents mysteriously disappear after the site is sold. “I suppose I want us to have assurances. If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again,” he said.

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay is also hosting what it calls “the $US675,000 mixtape” — a collection of the 30 songs named after the amount that student Joel Tenenbaum was fined after being found guilty of file sharing.

[Pirate Bay via TorrentFreak — Thanks Mark!]

Student Forced To Pay $US675,000 To RIAA For Sharing 30 Songs

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Joel Tenenbaum admitted to sharing 30 songs with Kazaa back in 2004 (Kazaa! So quaint!) and was originally fined $US150,000 per song. He worked that down to “only” $US22,500 per song, but that’s still $US675,000 in total.

This is the second big victory for the RIAA this month, after the even-more-ridiculous decision that filesharer Jammie Thomas should pay $US80,000 per song. But unlike Thomas, Tenenbaum hasn’t come out and said he will outright refuse to pay the fine, and it looks like this is a more concrete win for the RIAA dirtbags.

The RIAA specified to TorrentFreak that the money won will go to more lawsuits, not to the artists the RIAA supposedly represents. It looks like yet another episode in this long public relations attack in which the organisation mercilessly kills any sympathy for their cause that might have existed. [TorrentFreak]