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Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-torrent dept.

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."

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  1. Uhhhhh. by rotide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't this all just ignoring the real problem? It doesn't matter if you buy a nation, or buy an island, or buy a satellite. You have to get your internet pipe from some external source of which isn't in your "bubble of safety". You could setup a pirate planet, but if you want to connect back to earth you still need a transceiver based in a country not owned and operated by you. Great! You can't be prosecuted for doing what you want to do, but no one can access it.

    1. Re:Uhhhhh. by MoonBuggy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Or the people on the ground could, y'know, point a dish at the satellite themselves...

      I'm sure this is more a publicity stunt than a practical idea, but it doesn't fail quite that easily.

  2. Re:How long will this last? by Eivind · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here's the thing: every territory is under the rule of whomever shows up with the most guns.

    Laws are only tangentially relevant.

    A satelite, or a territory is dumb anyway, because to be any use, either one would need a link to the rest of the internet -- and they'd need to get that from some nation -- at which point the LINK is subject to the jurisdiction of that nation.