Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit

palmerj3 writes "It is almost four years ago that The Pirate Bay announced they wanted to buy the micronation of Sealand, so they could host their site without having to bother about copyright law — an ambitious plan that turned out to be unaffordable. This week, Pirate Parties worldwide started brainstorming about a similarly ambitious plan. Instead of founding their own nation, they want to shoot a torrent site into orbit."

Comments

Re:How long will this last?

[BitZtream]

Probably only slightly longer than it would have taken for them to get overthrown had they bought Sealand ... which is actually under British rule, regardless of how much they want to pretend its not.

Outer Space Treaty

[goodmanj]

Won't work. Read the Outer Space Treaty, specifically Article VI. (full text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty_of_1967#Article_VI)

In short: if it's launched from Country X, Country X has responsibility for it, whether it was launched by the Country X government or just by some wacky idealists who live there. In practice, this means that spacecraft are no more outside of national laws than seagoing ships are.

Re:Great idea!

[bluie-]

Actually, I recall seeing something about drone pilots (either a youtube or discover channel documentary or something like that, I can't remember the exact source), and they talked about observing suspected targets 24/7, and how they occasionally witness bestiality while watching targets at night.