![]() Old logo of Serious Tubes Networks, featuring a tube from the Super Mario series. | |
ASN | 50066 |
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Peering policy | Open |
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.[2][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.[citation needed]