The Pirate Bay has had legal issues, been raided and taken down in the past. Has...

0dayz · 2026-08-29T09:17:26.000000Z

It got raided once way back.

phoghed · 2026-08-29T11:47:43.000000Z

That’s obviously when they delivered the honey, the plot thickens

inigyou · 2026-08-29T04:50:33.000000Z

The UK fined it £520,000 but has no way to enforce it.

ben_w · 2026-08-29T11:10:58.000000Z

In fairness, this at most tells you the UK court system isn't party to any honeypotting.

Despite the memes, the UK is not the 51st state, which is both why it was able to make the fine (1st Amendment doesn't have jurisdiction over the UK) and why it's not able to enforce it (the UK doesn't have jurisdiction over 4chan).

GoblinSlayer · 2026-08-29T13:25:23.000000Z

>(1st Amendment doesn't have jurisdiction over the UK)

It's a matter of enforcement. And who would want to enforce 1st amendment?

ben_w · 2026-08-29T13:56:34.000000Z

Neither has the power to be enforced outside its own territory.

The entirety of the US constitution carries zero weight to the court system of the nation that the founders of those United States, ahem, engaged in unlawful violent treason against, with the assistance of foreign powers (France, then Spain and the Dutch Republic). :P