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Julian Assange in Haft: "Sie töten ihn langsam"

In dem Auslieferungsprozess um den Wikileaks-Gründer steht nicht nur sein Leben, sondern unsere ganze freie westliche Welt auf dem Spiel

Pirate Bay Domain That Sold for $50,000 Now Redirects to Proxy

A few weeks ago the domain Piratebay.org was sold at auction for $50,000. The domain was previously owned by the official TPB team, who ‘forgot’ to renew it. After the domain briefly promoted a mysterious “Torrent Man” film project, it now redirects to an ad-financed proxy site.

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pirate bay logo With millions of regular users per day, The Pirate Bay is arguably the most visited torrent site on the web.

TPB officially operates from the domain thepiratebay.org which has been in use for more than seventeen years now.

Just in case something happens to the original domain, the site also owns several alternatives. Until recently, this included prominent domains such as Piratebay.org and Thepiratebay.com.

Piratebay.org Sold For $50,000

These backup domains have been linked to the official Pirate Bay team for years. However, this summer the owner ‘forgot’ to renew them. As a result, they ended up at auctions where Piratebay.org sold for $50,000 and Thepiratebay.com brought in $35,150.

This money didn’t go to The Pirate Bay team, obviously, but to the professional ‘drop catch‘ service Dropcatch.com, which scooped them up.

These types of sales are not unusual. There’s a whole industry of traders who buy high traffic domains, which are usually monetized through ad feeds. This is exactly what happened to Thepiratebay.com.

That said, the $50,000 price tag of Piratebay.org was higher than usual. According to a domain expert who participated in the bidding, it’s not worth that much for regular brokers. That begged the question, who bought it, and what are the plans?

Pirate Bay Pictures

A few days after the sale the buyer appeared to uncover the ‘masterplan’. The domain was put up for sale again by an unknown entity called “PirateBay Pictures” who said they are crowdfunding a new film; The Torrent Man.

We were highlyy skeptical of this claim and asked the domain owner some questions, which remain unanswered today. As it turns out, the skepticism was warranted as the “Torrent Man” pitch disappeared recently. Instead, Piratebay.org now redirects to a TPB proxy.

A quick look at the Whois data shows that the domain wasn’t sold again, which makes sense, as the $2 million asking price was a bit high.

Recoup The Investment

It seems more likely that the whole “Torrent Man” announcement was simply a trick to generate more press attention, which we hinted at before. More backlinks raise the value of a domain name after all.

It’s possible that the redirect, which currently points to pirate-bay-proxy.org, will change again in the future. The goal will likely remain the same though, recoup the $50,000 investment.

At the time of writing, pirate-bay-proxy.org displays prominent popups for NordVPN. Those can be easily closed, after which it operates as a regular proxy, which loads another proxy (tpb.party) through an iframe.

The pirate-bay-proxy.org homepage itself is littered with keywords that are meant to draw search engine traffic. This also reveals that the person operating it isn’t really in tune with the true Pirate Bay attitude, as the page ends with the following statement…

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Alex Trebek, 1940-2020

His last message to fans in July: “My wish for all of you… stay safe.”

Alex Trebek, seen here hosting a themed Jeopardy tournament in January 2020—and while the tournament's name was about high-performing contestants from the series' past, today, we are going to say that it's specifically about Trebek himself.

The staff of long-running TV game show Jeopardy confirmed on Sunday that its beloved host Alex Trebek has passed away. He was 80 years old.

While the announcement did not go into details, other than confirming he passed on Sunday in the presence of family and friends, Trebek had previously been transparent with fans about his stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis, using YouTube to tell fans directly about the news in March 2019. At the time, he said he chose to speak to fans via YouTube "to prevent you from reading or hearing some overblown or inaccurate reports."

Since then, Trebek went on to continue hosting the series between rounds of treatment, posting regular updates to Jeopardy's YouTube account. The last such message came in July of this year, which confirmed that the show's regular production had been put on hold due to COVID-19 precautions. This allowed him, among other things, to write a memoir that came out shortly after that last YouTube message: The Answer is... Reflections on my Life.

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Liveblog: All the news from Apple’s “One More Thing” event

Ars is on the (virtual) scene to liveblog the Apple Silicon Mac announcement.

The splash image for Apple's (probably) final event of 2020.

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At 10:00am Pacific time (1pm Eastern) on Tuesday, November 10, Apple will hold yet another live event—the third in as many months—to announce new products. This time, the company is expected to reveal the first Macs that will replace Intel processors with Apple Silicon, the company's in-house-designed ARM-based chips.

As with the prior two events, we'll be liveblogging the proceedings right here. Just return to this page before the show starts to see all the updates from Cupertino.

The previous two events announced two new Apple Watch models, a new iPad, and four new iPhones, among other things. But the tagline for this event is "one more thing," suggesting the focus will singularly be on Apple's long-rumored, recently confirmed ARM transition.

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