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Hundreds of IP Addresses Make Pirate Bay a Hard Target

Posted by timothy on from the fleeting-contact-on-the-sonar dept.

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."

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  1. oblig. leia by niftydude · · Score: 5, Funny

    The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

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    1. Re:oblig. leia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not a question of substance, it's a question of style -- you can't just walk in and say Star Wars sucks, you have to pose your opinion of it as a quote or reference from some other SF/F/other geek-friendly-genre work. For example, dissing Star Wars in Klingon would have gotten him applause.

  2. I wonder if they have IPV6 support by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!

    1. Re:I wonder if they have IPV6 support by FridayBob · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  3. Poisoned forever? by weave · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Poisoned forever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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?

      Start using the IP addresses of politicians' websites as claimed alternate IP addresses, see if you can get the court to order the blocking of people who will not take that sort of thing lying down. (Yes, it would cut multiple ways at once but the shitstorm would be funny.)

  4. Oh, joy. by perrin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:An example by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love Photoshop. I know it well, and can do things in it far easier than I can in GIMP, largely because of experience, but I do not have the time to invest to learn GIMP well.

    If I want to make a quick button for me website, or clean up a photo, or make a nice card from my girlfriend, it is the tool I go to.

    Dude, if you have time to make yourself nice cards from your imaginary girlfriend, you have enough time to learn GIMP.

  6. Geez. by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wait until they find out that TPB is only one of many torrent sites.

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