Swedish Bittorrent outfit, ThePirateBay.org has admitted that its shutdown yesterday was faked. Users who showed up at the site were confronted with a copyright violation notice and some thought that the site had fallen to the Swedish copyright organization responsible for maintaining intellectual property rights Antipiratbyran.
This was exacerbated by PirateBay putting the following on its site: "Today the swedish anti-piracy organizations raided The Pirate Bay and confiscated the computers running the tracker. This probably means the end of The Pirate Bay and we, the crew, apologize for all loss of income caused by our activity over the years."
It was so plausible. PirateBay.org has been famous for its amusing put downs of officialdom, so it was an obvious target. PirateBay.org it is also famous for its hoaxes and this one seems to have suckered a lot of the IT press.
In actual fact, the site was undergoing renovations and a new version was released which looks a bit like Google.
Ah those Swedes, they will just kill us with their sense of humour, hard-core pron and open sandwiches.
Story source:
theinquirer.net.
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