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."

Comments

I wonder if they have IPV6 support

[Chrisq]

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!

Re:I wonder if they have IPV6 support

[Lord_Alex]

Everybody thinks using HTTPS within corporate walls means your traffic is encrypted. We control (Via AD) who your trusted root signers are. And if you look at who signed Google.com or paypal.com, it was us. EVERYTHING seems to be signed by the corp key. Also, the web filter appliance sees all the internet in plain text, SSL doesn't matter.

Executing a MITM SSL attack is easy when all the PCs trust your signing key.

Poisoned forever?

[weave]

So Pirate Bay goes around and getting new IPs and I assume releasing the old ones. Then what? Imagine getting a new netblock for your own stuff and finding out it used to be a PB IP. How do you go about getting that unblocked all around the world.

Re:Poisoned forever?

[dontclapthrowmoney]

That'd make for some interesting firewall logs. Also, from TFS:

an extended game of whac-a-mole using the hundreds of IP addresses they have available

I also would have expected that it wouldn't be that hard for the courts to find out what IPs TPB already own, so they can block them proactively?

Re:Poisoned forever?

[mepperpint]

I would think the IP addresses would be useless forever. It would likely take way more effort than it is worth to get them unblocked. Even if the court lifted the block, it would be hard to guarantee that they had been unblocked by every ISP out there. If this goes into overdrive, we might have a new compelling reason to switch to IPv6 as larger and larger swaths of IPv4 addresses become dead.

Re:Poisoned forever?

[SJHillman]

The last place I worked had an issue like this. We switched ISPs and found that two of the four new IPs assigned to us were blocked by a number of other ISPs and services for spamming. That took a few weeks to get it mostly straightened out, although we were still on some block lists six months later when I left. A friend of mine found that his newly registered domain name was blocked by a lot of places for spam as well, seems the previous owner of the domain may have been Russian...

Meet the Internet

[betterunixthanunix]

The Internet is not just some fancy cable TV system; websites are not channels, "access devices" (read: personal computers) are not "view only," and BitTorrent is not some service that can be shut down. Millions of people want to share and download their entertainment; I would guess that they outnumber the people running the various businesses that are still struggling to adapt to this "new" technology. How about instead of fighting a battle that can never be won, we tell the copyright industry that they need to adapt or die?

Re:Meet the Internet

[TheGratefulNet]

there will be very little financial incentive to create the content we enjoy

for over a decade now, there hasn't been much on tv or movies worth watching.

'content we enjoy' is now shifting. I get my 'content' via typing and reading what's online. the story lines on modern movies and tv really suck, the acting sucks, the commercials deter from the whole thing and I mostly lost interest in mainstream 'entertainment'.

it would not bother me one tiny bit if ALL the major studios went out of business. same with record labels.

I would not lose one bit of sleep or feel at all like we've lost anything valuable.

maybe I'm just getting too old for tv and movies; but it lost all its magic, like I said, about a decade or so ago. now, its a total waste of time and an insult to my intellect every time I try to watch anything current.

hours spent on the one-way tube seem wasted, to me. hours spent ENGAGING people online via conversations seem much more stimulating and interesting to me.

old one-way media is a has-been and I expect it to fade as other people get disillusioned, like I did.

let the studios rot and fade away. good riddence! seriously. other stuff will fill the void.