Serious Tubes Networks is an internet service provider based in Stockholm, Sweden.[1] The company was best known for providing network connectivity for the Pirate Party of Sweden and for hosting The Pirate Bay, a major BitTorrent search engine.[2][3]
 Old logo of Serious Tubes Networks, featuring a tube from the Super Mario series. | |
| ASN | 50066 |
|---|---|
| Peering policy | Open |
In May 2011, the website of The Pirate Bay was unreachable to Comcast customers. Serious Tubes Networks later announced that it was due to a routing configuration error at Global Crossing, which was providing service for Comcast.[2][4][5]
The company was founded in 2009. Their website was originally located at serioustubes.org,[6] which later redirected to serioustubes.se.[7] The site was offline from approximately August 2013[8] to September 2017,[9] after which the company seems to have been relaunched.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "WHOIS handle for Serious Tubes Networks". RIPE.
- ^ a b Van Der Sar, Ernesto (2011-05-12). "Comcast Offers Help to The Pirate Bay, Problems Fixed". TorrentFreak.
- ^ "Pirate Party buckles in face of Pirate Bay lawsuit". thelocal.se. 2013-02-26.
- ^ Newman, Jared (2011-05-12). "The Pirate Bay Blocked by Comcast? ISP Says 'No'". PC World.
- ^ "Report: Comcast helped figure out what was wrong with Pirate Bay". Boing Boing.
- ^ Earliest archived version of serioustubes.org from 22 October 2009.
- ^ See archived versions of December 2012: serioustubes.org turns into a redirect to serioustubes.se.
- ^ See archived versions of 15 June 2013, when the site was still live, and 31 August 2013, when it was down.
- ^ See archived versions of 20 May 2017, when the site was down, and 9 September 2017, when it was up with a new design.