The Pirate Bay Finds Permanent Home

SlashRating^© 8675309 slashdottit! ^tm C4st13v4n14 writes "The Pirate Bay finally gets permanent hosting and immunity against foreign copyright holders." No clue how long this latest arrangement will hold out, or if copyright holders will be able to touch them while they are hosted in their new location. I wonder what the deal looked like to get this done. Strange bedfellows indeed.

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Obligatory joke

[broothal]

In north Korea, april fools you!

In other news from Europe...

[Budenny]

The Independent reported the exciting discovery of a viagra like substance in East European heather flowers. Garden Centres across the UK are being besieged by men of all ages.....

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/ar ticle2411405.ece

Dear World

[jb.hl.com]

Dear World,

Please make your April Fools more funny. Right now a global nuclear holocaust would raise more chuckles. (Luckily, we're inching closer to that every day, so we haven't got long to wait for some laughs.)

Love,
jb.hl.com

Re:SlashRating

[numbware]

I should be modded insightful for no reason.

Not really a surprise

[sam_handelman]

If the only stuff you read is US propoganda, you'd think that Kim Jong Il is some kind of tyrant.

  What we don't know here in the west - because our massive corporate overlords don't want us to know it! - is that Kim Jong Il has long been a champion of freedom of expression and fundamnental human rights, not only in the DPRK, but on the world stage. Given his principled belief in freedom of expression (a right which, if universally protected on principle, obviously renders copyright moot in a digital era) it's no surprise that he would intervene to ensure that the Pirate Bay could stay in operation.

  Just because the guy's funny looking and kinda weird, we allow this Thomas Jefferson of the far east to be demonized in all of our media. As Nerds, you'd think we could look past his obsession with campy movies, use of hair gel, and love of inter-racial threeways - after all, we're just as quirky, or we wouldn't be on slashdot. It's a real shame how we perpetrate these kinds of stereotypes against this stalwart champion of liberty.