Serious Tubes Networks is an

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based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company was best known for providing network connectivity for the

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and for hosting

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, a major BitTorrent search engine. In May 2011, the website of

was unreachable to Comcast customers. Serious Tubes Networks later announced that it was due to a routing configuration error at

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, which was providing service for Comcast. The company was founded in 2009. Their website was originally located at serioustubes.org, which later redirected to serioustubes.se. The site was offline from approximately August 2013 to September 2017,See archived versions o
20 May 2017
when the site was down, an
9 September 2017
when it was up with a new design. after which the company seems to have been relaunched.

References

{{The Pirate Bay Intellectual property activism Internet service providers of Sweden The Pirate Bay