The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers

concealment writes with news of those Swedish pirates improving their infrastructure. From the article: "The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world's most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure." They are still running their own dedicated load balancers that forward encrypted traffic to one of their "cloud" providers, rather than dealing with physical colocation. Seems like a sensible decision any IT manager would make.

Comments

Re:Invulnerable?

[Anonymous Coward]

When it becomes this difficult to take down a site we (pro free-communication types) can re-raise the question of whether or not government (assuming the government where you live is trying to take down the pirate bay internationally) should even attempt it, this time adding "gross waste of the taxpayer's money" to the pile of outrageously unethical acts.

I'm glad to see that there are so many freedom-loving groups of people out there that are actively improving infrastructure like this and offer my support.

Re:Invulnerable?

[icebraining]

No, you can have many physical servers with many IPs.

Eventually people will start using distributed torrent discovery (see Tribler), which coupled with integrated torrent signing for the release groups to authenticate theirs, will be invulnerable to such raids.

Re:Invulnerable?

[jbmartin6]

They may not even know. Remember when Amazon was hosting Wikileaks? Uh, we are? They said. Setting it up is all pretty automated, it might stay there until someone explicitly looks for it. After all, from the cloud perspective they are just renting an IP and some data storage, they wouldn't necessarily know that it was TPB unless they read the data. Which they aren't supposed to do.