Pirate Bay now hosted in North Korea

[Freecare Spiritwise]

I fancy myself a decent chess player. I seem to win most random encounters. But a few times in my life I've come up against certain players and been just totally outclassed. It's that shock of realization when it hits you that you're not even in the same league as your opponent. The entertainment industry must be feeling a bit of that lately, as TBP not only remains up, but demonstrates some political kung fu of its own. With NK emerging as a champion against Internet censorship. Man, you couldn't make this shit up.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay- ... um-130304/

I like the #1 up-voted comment in the post: "checkmate motherfuckers"

[Freecare Spiritwise]

Hoax?

[Ddrak]

I think so.

[Fallakin Kuvari]

It was a bluff, but boy was it genius.

What they need to do is move to tor.

[Alluveal]

I mourned the loss of Demonoid. This will suck if TPB goes the same route.

[Ddrak]

It will just be a matter of finding the next one. Everyone thought it was the end of the world when Supernova went down too.

(Not that I think TPB has any issues yet)

Dd

[Fallakin Kuvari]

It will just be a matter of finding the next one. Everyone thought it was the end of the world when Supernova went down too.

(Not that I think TPB has any issues yet)

Dd

I assume this was before TPB was around?

Gonna be honest, don't know that one.

[Ddrak]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprnova.org

[Freecare Spiritwise]

You can download TPB's database as a torrent and run your own. And that's just one database. Besides, the trackers are mostly decentralized. The big database isn't as important now what with magnet links.

No, the only way to stop torrents now is to outlaw all forms of encryption, which the government tried unsuccessfully to do in the '90s by labeling it a 'munition'. That's never going to happen, and even if it does, it would only serve to drive innovation in some other field like steganography. So if they want to dismantle the entire online banking system and transaction infrastructure just to try to dent downloading, then I say bring it on.

The war on piracy is really part of a larger war on privacy, and encryption is the last bastion of that conflict.

[Fallakin Kuvari]

If TPB were to go down, theres always TOR.

[Freecare Spiritwise]

Tor would collapse under the load if everyone started using it for torrents. It's mostly for political dissidents and people overpaying for illegal drugs.

But yeah, pressure on people downloading movies is driving innovation in new technologies which also makes it easier for pedophiles to be anonymous, so there is that. That's why the NSA and FBI pretty much hate Hollywood. They're pushing a whole segment of society underground, with lots of unsavory characters along for the ride.