Serious Tubes Networks

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Serious Tubes Networks is an internet service provider based in Stockholm, Sweden.{{cite web | title=WHOIS handle for Serious Tubes Networks | url=https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/#/query?searchtext=Serious%20Tubes%20Networks#resultsSection | publisher=RIPE}} 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.{{Cite news | first=Ernesto | last=Van Der Sar | title=Comcast Offers Help to The Pirate Bay, Problems Fixed | url=http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-offers-help-to-the-pirate-bay-110512/ | date=2011-05-12 | publisher=TorrentFreak}}{{Cite web | title=Pirate Party buckles in face of Pirate Bay lawsuit | url=https://www.thelocal.se/20130226/46410 | date=2013-02-26 | website=thelocal.se}}

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.{{Cite news| first=Jared | last=Newman | title=The Pirate Bay Blocked by Comcast? ISP Says 'No' | url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/227725/update_the_pirate_bay_blocked_by_comcast_isp_says_no.html/ | date=2011-05-12 | publisher=PC World}}{{Cite news | title=Report: Comcast helped figure out what was wrong with Pirate Bay | url=http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/13/report-comcast-helpe.html | publisher=Boing Boing}}

The company was founded in 2009. Their website was originally located at serioustubes.org,[https://web.archive.org/web/20091022104422/http://serioustubes.org:80/ Earliest archived version of serioustubes.org] from 22 October 2009. which later redirected to serioustubes.se.See archived versions of [https://web.archive.org/web/20120401000000*/http://serioustubes.org:80/ December 2012]: serioustubes.org turns into a redirect to serioustubes.se. The site was offline from approximately August 2013See archived versions of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615145210/http://serioustubes.se/ 15 June 2013], when the site was still live, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615145210/http://serioustubes.se/ 31 August 2013], when it was down. to September 2017,See archived versions of [https://web.archive.org/web/20170909164708/http://www.serioustubes.se/ 20 May 2017], when the site was down, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20170909164708/http://www.serioustubes.se:80/ 9 September 2017], when it was up with a new design. after which the company seems to have been relaunched.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}