Copyright Law

Something ?Broken? at the Pirate Bay?

By soulxtc

Swedish BitTorrent tracker site says it’s “pwr FAIL” not “BREIN FAIL.”

The drama never ends at the Pirate Bay it seems and that’s certainly the case with an odd message posted earlier on the site.

Visitors were greeted to a picture and message that said it was having some power issues.

“Something is broken, we are working on it, check back in a little while! Ok, we have some pwr FAIL. It’s not BREIN FAIL,” it reads.

“BREIN fail” is in reference to the recent court order in the Netherlands whereby the Pirate Bay must block access to the site by Dutch citizens or face a fine of 30,000 euros ($42,906 USD) p/day. BREIN is the Dutch anti-piracy organization that initiated the case on behalf of copyright holders who accuses the site of copyright infringement.

Being that Global Gaming Factory plans to acquire the BitTorrent tracker site on the 27th some have been wondering if there’s a correlation.

With the Pirate Bay anything’s possible.

As I write this the Pirate Bay now doesn’t load at all, and according to downforeveryoneorjustme.com it’s not “just me.”

Stay tuned.

jared@zeropaid.com

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).