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The Pirate Bay Sails To a New Home
the monolith writes "Back in August, the company supplying bandwidth to The Pirate Bay was forced to disconnect them. Quoting TorrentFreak: '"It took just 20 minutes before the Hollywood companies telephoned the new host who took over operation of The Pirate Bay," commented Patrik from the ISP which had been indirectly supplying bandwidth to TPB. Despite initially putting on a brave face and standing strong, Patrik's company continued to feel the heat. It is not a large outfit and doesn't have the resources to fight the entertainment industry and its threats. Last night, Patrik could hold off no longer after receiving mounting threats from the entertainment industries, which culminated in threats of a court summons. Having come this far, there is little doubt that IFPI and the MPAA would litigate if necessary. ... On the heels of several rumors today, Patrik said he could confirm news of the move, saying that he believes The Pirate Bay is now hosted in Ukraine.'"
It's about this.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Ukraine isn't Communist. Go back to school, starting with the fourth grade.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
You need to dig a little deeper.
TPB has it's own provider independant IP addresses that can be moved around the world. The fact that a Swedish company operates them doesn't matter. Neither does the country part below, because that is not dependant on actual physical location.
inetnum: 194.71.107.0 - 194.71.107.255
netname: DCP-ANYCAST-DNS
descr: DCP-NEWORKS
country: SE
status: ASSIGNED PI
There are already decentralized systems out their (Gnutella and KAD for example). Those however suffer from the serious problem that all decentralized P2P systems suffer from though: lack of speed.
The simple truth is that SOME level of centralization will always provide a huge boost in speed, and as such there will always been someone like TPB looking to get a centralized server somewhere that can't be touched. And so far that has worked. The decentralized model already exists, and has for many years, but like always it will simply be a last resort that we likely won't have to use.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Last I checked, one of the "A"'s in MPAA and RIAA stood for "America". Also, last I checked, neither Sweden no the Ukraine were in America.
Yeah, but the OTHER 'A' stands for Ass. and there are Asses in ALL countries!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Before more and more people jump in with their stupid whois links domain->ip links saying "look, their ip is 194.71.107.15 and its in sweden"...
TPB is hosted on their owners own AS and ip block "DCPNetworks" which is one of the couple ones they have. It's info is registered to be in Stockholm, Sweden, but its manual info given to RIPE. It doesn't mean its physically there. More so, it could had been there but moved elsewhere later. Lots of people seem to think these geolocations are some magical system to determine exactly where ip location is, but it's all based on manually typed in info when you register with RIPE or other registreries.
What you have to look at is their upstream providers. robtex shows still the old info too. More so, my own look up goes to amsterdam and leaseweb as their last upstream provider.
Actually this seems to be a fail over system of theirs. PatrikWeb, their only upstream besides DCS and SPACEDUMP, stopped providing bandwidth so their fail safe system kicked in and started providing bandwidth in Ukraine when one of their upstream providers stopped routing. They probably have more providers in place too to pick up quickly.
It's an intelligent system and not a surprise that those who haven't looked into BGP and routing more dont understand what's going on and just point out that the IP space is registered in sweden and dont see it can actually be located anywhere.