https://omid.dev/tags/riaa/Recent content in RIAA on Omid Farhanghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpgHugo -- 0.161.1en-US2026 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Wed, 19 May 2010 21:08:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2010/05/19/the-pirate-bay-to-riaa-we-are-unsinkable/Wed, 19 May 2010 21:08:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2010/05/19/the-pirate-bay-to-riaa-we-are-unsinkable/<p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vaUVXcmC3OI/S_RMPZZmdFI/AAAAAAAACRA/ncH8aHHVIH0/s1600-h/tpb%5B4%5D.jpg"><img title="tpb" border="0" alt="tpb" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vaUVXcmC3OI/S_RMRwHMd9I/AAAAAAAACRE/oVQlTX0QcrI/tpb_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="260" height="182" /></a> Yesterday, the Pirate Bay <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-goes-down-following-legal-pressure-100517/">went down</a> following pressure from the RIAA, which threatened to slap TPB’s hosting provider with huge fines.</p> <p>We predicted The Pirate Bay’s downfall ages ago, but it still hasn’t happened. Things have been looking grim for the file-sharing service for a while. First, there was the lawsuit from the entertainment industry that left the Pirate Bay’s team scattered and <a href="http://thepiratebay.org/blog/151">struggling</a> to stay the course it charted for itself. Then the news that the entire service was to be sold (the sale never happened) to a Swedish Gaming Company seemed to have scattered the Pirate Bay’s fans, too.</p>