Happy Independence Day!
Today we celebrate!
Six years ago on this day, the 31st of May, the Swedish police raided our facilities. They worked hard and long and tried stealing all of our servers, all of our backups and all of our admins. As usual, they did not succeed. After our opponents dropped their victory in their press releases (that were written 4 days before the raid, weird huh?) we got the site back online in no time. After three days the site was running almost like before - we could have been faster but we had to do alot of interviews and we had to drink some rum.
Today, six years after the raid the site is STILL ONLINE!
oh, and we've grown a bit. From 2.5 million peers at the time of the raid to 30-40 million peers. From 1 million registered users to 5.7 million. We used to be ranked just among the top 500 websites in the world - now we're top 60. And when we write that _we_ are growing, we mean the community. It's awesome to see the support the community show us. Even in our bad moments, we get your support. We're really happy that you do this, every fan letter we get, every time someone say something nice to us, we really understand that we do something important, something that is more important than ourselves.
We haven't done everything right. We're amateurs in a lot of fields. But we're experts in having fun and making a lot of file sharing happening. And we keep on improving on the areas we find our flaws. And you guys help us out. Thank you so much!
To celebrate today, we encourage you to keep on sharing. Keep on uploading, downloading, swapping bits of information. Let today be the pirates independence day! Today we celebrate the victories we've had and the victories that will come. Today we celebrate that we're united in our efforts. Keep on waving that black flag!
On the day Sky join the ranks of the censors. One by one they fall to the Ministry of so called 'Justice'
Just as well google aren't really in the ISP business yet .....
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dPJVqIaQXWoJ:thepiratebay.se/browse/207/0/7+http://thepiratebay.se/browse/207/0/7&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
31st of May as Pirates Independence Day sounds like a splendid idea to me.
Arrr!
Just one mistake, your Twitter is "@tpbdotorg", but your website is ThePirateBay.SE, not .ORG. Just something I noticed, other than that keep up the awesome work! :)
Again, yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Happy Pirates Independence Day to all!
Make it a good one mateys!
Let the Rum flow!
A thank you to all the old admins,
the new ones,
and the ones to come.
And a thank you to those who pay for their items yet still torrent their copy,
to those who scour the ends of the internet for new material to help the cause,
to those who release their stuff for free.
To the seeders, i thank,
For the leechers, i pray,
To the DRM campaigners, i laugh,
For the jailed and fined, i cry.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I believe your work is helping and will help bring about a better system of distributing the world's wealth and resources. Big words, I know, but I believe this is the right track to go on.
Long live TPB!
Long live TPB and congrats on the independence day.
FUCK whoever that fucks with TPB!
you are the best one who try to help people to have freedom!
I hope more people will join your effort !
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TPB !
Fuck greedy noobs
You are the ones who made possible for me to get access to many movies, who are not easy to find because they're not "commercial", you helped me to find TV shows, books, games, music, software to learn other languages, among many, many other things.
I do not have the resources to pay for the 99% of the software I own, so if it weren't for you I wouldn't have enjoyed and learnt many things that are useful to me now. For this, thanks again.
I truly believe that culture and knowledge should be free, as it is the way for mankind to progress and achieve a better quality of life. Unfortunately, as the people who make the laws are so influenced for the big companies who want to profit even laughter (as we say in Colombia), those who still believe on this are labeled as the villains. But those who are the real people, the ones who want to get culture and tools to improve, think differently. And that's why piracy will not be killed or stopped until the culture and knowled
I am in the UK, the current blocks are only giving you even more publicity and we all know how useless they are/will be.
I hope that The Promo Bay will take over from BPI/MAFIAA companies.
Keep up the great work.
Sadly today Sky blocked TPB.
BT, O2(Telefonica), and TalkTalk are due on June 13th to block out TPB.
To help with circumventing/bypassing the blocks and still use The Pirate Bay use:
about.piratereverse.info/ and
www.mipnow.com
Long Live TPB!
Long live TPB
Looking forward to you guys out smarting and out witting these
greedy people for many years to come.
It's only right that we as TPB community teach future generations about sharing what you have with others who are less fortunate or who can't afford the next big game,dvd,software etc etc,so whatever you have learn how to upload it and share it i say this as am trying to learn at the moment how to share the things i have been lucky enough to afford,take care everyone :)