In life there comes a time when you just got to let go of something that defined a generation. Today we say good bye to Pirate Bay. At 9:30am PT or 1:30 BST Pirate Bay’s plug was pulled by (one of) its ISP – Black Internet, who likely feared the court order, which would have fined them some $70,000 if they had not done so.

For now Pirate Bay is offline, and regardless what you think of the whole file sharing debate, it is amazing the community that they managed to bring together and how they along with others were able to rock massive industries with ingenious technologies. We for one salute you. Now the ‘Entertainment Industry’ has won this battle, I do hope they come with some better offerings to access their media to see if they can win back some of the pirates who jump ship. Otherwise, they’ll all swim to the other 100s of torrents sites, or even the next Pirate Bay (build it yourself).

1000s upon 1000s of torrents still out there. Our bet is that the Pirate Bay torrents all work by the end of the week. Entertainment Industry, you better move fast to win the masses. In case you care, I love vinyl even though I grew up with the CD so I’m still buying music, just wished for the price of vinyl you’d give me a digital version free or for a processing fee.