Serious Tubes Networks Explained

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]}

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.^{[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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: WHOIS handle for Serious Tubes Networks . RIPE.
2. News: Ernesto . Van Der Sar . Comcast Offers Help to The Pirate Bay, Problems Fixed . 2011-05-12 . TorrentFreak.
3. Web site: Pirate Party buckles in face of Pirate Bay lawsuit . 2013-02-26 . thelocal.se.
4. News: Jared . Newman . The Pirate Bay Blocked by Comcast? ISP Says 'No' . 2011-05-12 . PC World.
5. News: Report: Comcast helped figure out what was wrong with Pirate Bay . Boing Boing.
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20091022104422/http://serioustubes.org:80/ Earliest archived version of serioustubes.org
7. See archived versions of December 2012: serioustubes.org turns into a redirect to serioustubes.se.
8. See archived versions of 15 June 2013, when the site was still live, and 31 August 2013, when it was down.
9. See archived versions of 20 May 2017, when the site was down, and 9 September 2017, when it was up with a new design.