It was purchased for 7.8 million dollars to turn it into a legal website. Basically its dead now.

http://kotaku.com/5304376/the-pirate-bay-purchased?skyline=true&s=x

Oh no, jackasses have to find somewhere else to pirate their stuff.

hey now, don't call us jackasses thats rude, still we have plenty of places to go. You really think us anime fansub fans don't use at least 5 different sites. Just figured I'd let people know of the death of the top pirate site on the net.

Yes yes yes Finally!!!! Hahahha stupid Pirates!!

...unlike honest folk...right ? :P

Yes, its the honest folks who steal DVDs and older games out of their packages at Wal-Mart and most stores..  at least pirates leave legit copies on shelves to be sold legitly.

Never liked it. All hail ISOHUNT!

Torrents are for people who are to stupid to learn what .nzb files are.

Anyway, piratebay is a site for people who stopped looking for the better alternatives the web has to offer. They will be forced to do so now, and millions of people worldwide will start discussing other means to get their pirated software. Piracy will not stop for one second because of this.

Or people who's ISP censors usenet to the point of uselessness. (Which is becoming quite common.)

Pirates Bays sucked anyway, Mininova ftw