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Arrrr! Pirate Bay taken down by Swedish authorities
If you woke up this morning hoping to download last night's episode of Mad Men (of course, I totally wouldn't know anything about that) you'll have to look somewhere other than The Pirate Bay. The popular, controversial torrent site was taken down by the Swedish government earlier today, and is still unreachable as of this posting. Authorities got to the Bay by threatening the site's hosting service with hefty fines, according to TorrentFreak.TorrentFreak also reported that The Pirate Bay is back online after changing hosting companies, but I've been unable to connect to the site all day. The Pirate Bay is currently in the middle of a civil case brought against it by several large media companies, and is also the target of a faltering acquisition attempt by games company Global Gaming Factory. This sort of thing hasn't killed The Pirate Bay before, so I expect we'll see it back up again shortly.
In the meantime, remember how one user posted a complete backup of the site's index last week? Yeah, someone has already posted a TPB clone at BTarena.net. The servers appear to be getting hammered right now and the site is pretty slow. But it's better than nothing.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
