Confirmed on 3 VPS servers in California, Chicago and Scranton:
All the packets die at piratpartiet.se
You're assuming that the webserver permits ICMP. Try "traceroute -T -p 80 thepiratebay.org" 10 as40475.ge-0-2-1.cr1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.153.90) 97.411 ms 97.049 ms 97.207 ms 11 ge-0-0-1-4030.ro1.sjc01 (208.83.220.116) 93.781 ms 93.953 ms 91.025 ms 12 ge-0-0.cal-cr-0.srstubes.net (74.116.251.2) 87.828 ms 87.882 ms 87.867 ms 13 vlan102.ge-0-3.sth3-core-1.srstubes.net (194.68.0.158) 204.147 ms 197.968 ms 198.435 ms 14 ge-1-2.sth4-dr-1.srstubes.net (194.68.0.166) 198.396 ms 198.198 ms 198.017 ms 15 ge-0-1.moria-cr-1.piratpartiet.net (194.68.0.146) 191.203 ms 191.826 ms 191.653 ms 16 thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se (194.14.56.29) 191.103 ms 190.479 ms 190.453 ms 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 thepiratebay.org (194.71.107.15) 192.677 ms 192.862 ms 192.999 ms