Just went over there today and saw this notice:

THIS SITE HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR VIOLATION OF OUR TERMS OF SERVICE.

Just wanted everyone to know.

Too bad so sad.

I heard they were shutdown for failing to spell "The" correctly any truth to that rumour?

I heard they were shutdown for failing to spell "The" correctly any truth to that rumour?

wonder how long it'll last. because let's face it: unless the site owners have been arrested, one way or another, there will be another "tehparadox" (oh how I despise that spelling...)

Not that I care much. I was last seen around there around 2011 I think. too bad for trailer music lovers, though.

Every now and again their hosting company kicks them off. They'll be back within days. People worry too much.

The end will come - for all of us - but it's not here yet.

Every now and again their hosting company kicks them off. They'll be back within days. People worry too much.

The end will come - for all of us - but it's not here yet.

:treknod:

Quite

"Everything that has a beginning...has an end".

It felt as though that bloody film had no end at all... ;)

Here we go again with the teh.

@Tangotreats....spoken like someone 30 years old.

:-D

Just sayin' we should all watch out, or it could happen here.

Just sayin' we should all watch out, or it could happen here.

It could happen. more likely it will happen someday. but, there are some differences between shrine and TP. If my memory is correct, TP was warez all the way: games, softwares, movies, music (all genre), etc. again, that is if my memory is correct. all the while we deal in a niche market: film, VG and anime music (and classical). I'm not saying they will never take arms against us. just that for now, the profit of doing so wouldn't be very interesting.

one day that might change.

In other words: "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

Yeah, I'm in quote mode.

The only thing that place was really good for is that unreleased trailer music would pop up there every now and then... but at this point honestly I have so much trailer music I never listen to that I don't care anymore at this point. Other than the trailer music it was like any other warez site.

I hated its stupid spelling too.

Seems like a troll hack.

I remember this happend once before.
If it was shut down for violating "terms of service", the parent company of the board would have a link to their site to the ToS.

"our" is very generic with no reference.
There'd be a trail to follow or some redirecting.

Even the source is just the simple text.

Yeah, I remember that happening before too. Note that the site still has its usual favicon; so maybe it is just a hack.

On the other hand, right before the site went down a bunch of people were complaining how their ISPs were blocking the site... maybe "they" (whoever they are) finally recognized that tehParadox violated their ToS (which, as Sparktank mentioned, is curiously never linked to) after all this and just shut it down? Hard to tell either way.

Those two are mutually exclusive scenarios.

ISP's don't have the power to shut down a site just like that.
It would have made the news like The Pirate Bay makes the news.

The only power ISP's have is to block access to such sites.
Granted it's never total blocking, since people will step in and raise themselves on their tippy toes, lift their head, push their glasses back with dainty fingures utter "proxy" or "vpn".

But, generally, for a whole site to be taken down, there has to be open cases built up against the site.
Site blocking is the first step before ceasing the site in a raid like Mega and TPB.
And all that's very public news. Every site, blog, article and other places would be talking about it.

I don't know if there's a dedicated blogging site like TorrentFreak has for torrent news.
But, I'm sure there's a large enough audience out there would post articles.

I seriously doubt it's shut down.
"They" would still need to provide a link to their ToS to prove such terms were breached.
It's not like 20 year olds running the world (wide web) and just go "just 'cus".

I remember a certain someone (she knows who she is) leaked The Prince of Egypt on there and tried pinning it on me. So I have no problem with it being shutdown.

It looks like you were right, Paradox is back up and running fine.