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Hundreds of IP Addresses Make Pirate Bay a Hard Target
jones_supa writes "Last week The Pirate Bay added a new IP address which allows users to circumvent the many court-ordered blockades against the site. While this proved to be quite effective, the Hollywood backed anti-piracy group BREIN has already been to court to demand a block against this new address. But that won't deter The Pirate Bay, who say they are fully prepared for an extended game of whac-a-mole using the hundreds of IP addresses they have available. Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and the end is still not in sight."
Buying a whole block would probably not work, as then it would be simple to block the whole block.
IP addresses tend to change hands. The "bad guys" get new IP addresses, while some innocent bystanders gets the old, tainted ones. It is hard enough to get an IP address off a vigilante style blacklist, but how bloody hard would it not be to get it off a court ordered IP block? The block would likely be in a different country altogether, or perhaps several countries at once.
They are really starting to mess hard with the core structure of the internet. But of course, these big cartels do not care. They get their slightly higher profits, and as usual someone else gets to sort out the mess later on.
I wonder if they have IPV6 support, unfortunately searches on "the pirate bay" are blocked here at work. If tey do they could add billions of IP addresses!
That was my thought as well. Keep in mind that IPv6 addresses are often allocated in /64 and /48 subnets, so it's possible that's how the anti-piracy groups will be seeking to block them. Still, even if they attempt to block by the /48, that still leaves thousands of billions of these address ranges in which to hide. But, even with IPv4 it sounds like the TPB has address space to burn.
It's stupid, really. IMO, all that's necessary to end this ridiculous cat and mouse game is for the entertainment industry to offer streaming services to the masses at reasonable prices (per movie/show/series/episode/album/song) and all this bad behavior will be unnecessary on both sides.
Now that would be entirely too logical. But while we have whore politicians who will dance for whatever jackass pays them the most, they will make laws that burn us. We are to blame partially. We don't hold politicians accountable for their betrayals. They should be terrified to cross us. They should ponder that big fat bribe as a death sentence. We also need to get rid of legal bribery, the whole process of lobbyists needs run down and beat out of our system with extreme prejudice.
When you look at this issue it's just systematic of larger issues that plague us. Until we the people get back our government from big money, they will continue to bend us over and jam whatever they wish up there. It's problematic, because asking the current power holders in government to fix this is like asking the fox to fix the hen house.
Here is something to consider, they could tap into this and make money instead of whining about it. They are missing out on fortunes by not adapting to the times and technology. So it makes me wonder, are they just damn stupid or are they just an excuse to try to clamp down on the Internet by the powers that be because they are frightened of it? It's probably both, come to think about it.
Politicians didn't give a rat's fat ass about this until the "Arab Spring" that materialized out of Internet social networks. Then factor how the London riots were guided by the tech as well, and you get paranoid "powers that be" that are afraid we will collectively snap out of this dream world they have fabricated for us and come howling in one giant unstoppable mob for their heads on sticks. OWS was looking scary to them, and if the media didn't get on it's job of either completely ignoring it and covering it up or smearing it into oblivion, they were going to have to do something drastic to avoid mass revolution via the Internet.
But thankfully for them, the movement has been contained. The American public has proven apathetic to it's citizens exercising Constitutional rights being beat down and gassed by thug military forces aka the police. OWS members have been successfully painted as filthy dirty hippies instead of modern patriots, they are now on the proper watch lists and the steam is out of the movement.
They can now go back to letting the Internet function and use it to spy on us via social networks. They get to have their cake and eat it too.
That explains volumes, no? It's not hard to impress upon dolts in office who can't set up their own email with scary stories of "cyber criminals, terrorists and warfare". Lion, tigers, and bears! OH MY! For the children!!! Release the Kraken!
Silly rabbit, Tricks are for kids! It's all about control, the entertainment industry are just retards who pay the bribes to get them to do what they want to do to begin with and to have an excuse. It's incumbent upon us now to fight back and shove it all up their asses.
Take the Red Pill.