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UK block of TPB? Haven't really noticed.

Just read the story on BBC that the P2P traffic in the UK is back to the normal amounts after the block of TPB was instated.

We never really noticed a blockade. Traffic from the UK looks the same to us, we only keep track of which countries traffic comes from, not ISP or something else (hey, we like privacy so we don't log stuff, only meta data about data). The only thing we noticed were comments on blog posts and lots of journalists e-mailing us more about UK than other things for once (like why we're blocked in Saudi, china and other countries that also do not enjoy democracy). We never bothered to reply, so journalists wrote what they wanted us to say. In a few days everything was back to normal for everyone.

We did however notice that this guy from the record companies (you know, our competitors in the distribution industry) is saying we went from a ranking in the top 50 to 282 in his small country. We're only interesting in being ranked 1337 - which we are. These ranking systems (like Alexa) are guestimating traffic. The information comes from people that aren't tech savvy, like users of explorer or people that actually installed their toolbars (whyyy?!). The majority of our users would not do that. And we've seen that we have more traffic than most sites we've compared e-penis' with even though they are ranked 50-100 positions over us in these charts. Put simply, they're not relaly accurate.

And speaking of these guestimates. They're not only guessing how much traffic we have, but also what and how much is being shared and so on. We've never given out that information - we never even stored it. When we've done measurements ourselves we kind of laugh at how crappy other peoples estimates are. People that charge millions to guestimate will not give their clients a number that is against their interests... so look at these numbers with sober eyes and look at what is in the earnings for the people that hand out these numbers.

Our guestimate however is that these companies that are fighting us, P2P, the internets, call it what you want, will go belly up soon. Let's see who's more accurate in their guessing (hint: we already know we won). We'd say "fuck you" but it's not really needed - you already fucked yourselves.

Posted 07-16 2012 by WistonaRider

18 comments

#1. politux - 07-16 2012
I wonder if they think their blocks are actually doing anything....
#2. 28Okapi - 07-16 2012
The only thing that these ill-judged blocks have achieved in the UK is to force tech-dimwits like me into a crash course in TCP/IP.

Like any sane person, I would prefer to pay a small amount of money to reliable *Swedish* vpns than to give the bloated maggots of Warner Bros any more of my cash.

Oh and grateful lols @ "you know, our competitors in the distribution industry" :) If and when they learn ro accept the underlying commercial reality of this statement, they might (possibly) still be around in 10 years' time. But they won't; they will NOT be missed!
#3. FRITZBox - 07-16 2012
Those Alexa statistics did not include me downloading the Tron: Legacy soundtracks yesterday. Problem officer?
#4. newton8573 - 07-16 2012
Can you not due to the accusations demand them to show the data and the math used ? Are they not legally bind to do that ?

Or is this another magic formula with "data" that is so special it needs to be protected like the one the music companies used to estimate a music track is worth over the 100 mil ?
#5. Belzac - 07-16 2012
Man, at this point, you think they would learn to stop trying.
#6. jamesgover - 07-16 2012
ok ok i know this isnt the right comment to add this to but hear me out why recently all my torrent files that are music come up as files not mp3s tpb has always been good about this is there something im doing wrong even zamzar wont change em all i want is to put em on my mp3 player
#7. Soul_Traveller - 07-17 2012
I think you might wanna put the link to the petition to Grant Peters Pardon back up on home page for the next 12 days or so. I noticed a slow down of petitions!!!!!
#8. ahoi1 - 07-17 2012
"We'd say "fuck you" but it's not really needed - you already fucked yourselves."

Someone add this to wikiquote.
#9. busterthefox - 07-17 2012
This UK thing sounds like good fun. Yeah, I'm sure you're already aware they pay journalists to make shit up about you guys. Can't wait for these industries to die. Then all of the people who can't follow the times will cry out and say it was our fault. But we'll live on. Lol.
#10. ps7825 - 07-18 2012
Finding a proxy site automatically linked to piratebay will take like 10 sec max...after that it's just back to normal. I know that Belgium has also blocked the site, but I use proxy which is bookmarked and fast and has no speed change in actual p2p speed. It's just stupid blocking a web URL for making us do more work. Most people who use torrent would know how to get around it so quickly...stupid governments
#11. Angertek - 07-18 2012
unfortunately there was a drop down

Estimated percentage of global internet users who visit thepiratebay.se:
Reach % Change
Yesterday 1.63% +78%
7 day 0.907% +24%
1 month 0.909% -19.6%
3 month 1.078% +8.9%

alexa.com, lol but who cares you guys still in 85 on top of 4shared and the New York Times and getting close, very, to GoDaddy. Lol imagine piratebay competing with google for number one search engine in the net LOL!. You guys should work on making a small web search engine and add it to your home page so that people could set the piratebay as their homepage rather than GOOGLE. if you guys do that i'll be the first to set my homepage to the piratebay. Please make a webs search engine please... a simple one, no need for cryptic filters...
#12. Jonatoor - 07-18 2012
You have my respect.
#13. - 07-19 2012
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#14. MAA11792 - 07-19 2012
"you already fucked yourselves" haha keep it up you guys!
#15. mattski08 - 07-20 2012
The numbers are always fudged, you can't kill a movement and idea. Yoo-Hoo-Ho a Pirates life for me1
I use mipnow.com to bypass all blocks and censors to access TPB!
#16. Peng81828 - 07-23 2012
You can never block the pirate bay.
#17. DimsumDynam - 07-24 2012
looks like the UK blocked http://194.71.107.81/ at midnight tonight :(
#18. rigmar_radio - 07-24 2012
One of my Video Jocks or VJ's to use the hip new word put a heap of Promo Only UK stuff up here and got me cut off. EVEN though it was not me who uploaded the offending Video's to the Pirate Bay, I am now on an industry watch list!!!! So much for the right to defend yourself eh... So much for democracy... So now I have to caution all VJ's....

Please do not promote music by putting it up for free on the Pirate Bay. Pay your copyright and public performance dues and NEVER share .... Yeah right like that is going to happen.

So I don't share my new stuff. But guess what? I download new material all the time, and it is truly amazing and great and FREE... So Promo Only UK/USA what exactly is the point of NOT PROMOTING by sucking up to the MPA/PRS/PPL people. You simply limit your ability to promote your people, cause guess what - the end user will NOT PAY for most of the RUBBISH you get Music TV Stations and Broadcasters to churn out.

Of course being a nice person, I still do but I wonder for just

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