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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.
The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids
Wanna bet on that?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
And your point is (besides the one on the top of your head)? Now, go sit in the corner untill you have a topic worthy of discussion. I've had far to much of the "holier then thou", slander them with drug use western attitude.
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Is there a tor hidden service TPB hosted from an undisclosed location?
Tor hidden service is only secure for end users, not to the service itself. While TOR admins say it should be secure, the attack vectors are fairly well known and USA has the means to discover the real ip behind TOR hidden services.
Silkroad is still operating, therefore I suspect you don't know what you're talking about.
Now why does a site that is only used for legal purposes (hosting Linux ISOs is the usual excuse) need to be immune from police raids?
In case you haven't got the memo, the police (among others) doesn't give a flying fuck about legality when it comes to all things internet. Witness the Megaupload fiasco, witness the RIAA willingness to put offline through its government bought agencies legal sites for years at a time. Proactive mesures are necessary, lest your online presence be tossed in a moat never to be seen/heard from again. But hey, what's that they say about collateral damage anyway ?
You think they are using RAID5 or RAID10 to stop the police?
Megaupload should have seen this earlier!
LOL I think they were 'running' before they were walking.
You can use the word "steal" all you want.
But as long as the artists still have their works, you're using the wrong word.
And when people are using it wrong on purpose, it makes me care just a little bit less every time.
This is actually good area to research for everyday organizations that are not about to be on the receiving end of a police raid. The reason is simple, the most common disaster (not failure) that strikes most servers is the legal subpoena. Can your business survive a legal subpoena that would take a large portion of your data?
This is not an idle consideration, it's actually a very common consideration. Places like OnTrack do far more business recovering data for legal services like subpoenas than they do with disk failures. You usually get a certain amount of time (couple weeks or so) to respond to a subpoena with the requested data. If you don't get the request filled in time, or if the other side convinces the judge you might mess with the data they will simply seize your servers / data by court order?
Can you survive this? If you can survive this scenario, than chances are you can recover from just about any other reasonable disaster you might encounter. The pirate bay scenario is one that should be studied from a disaster recovery standpoint, regardless of your stance on piracy.
Hey look, I can STEAL your name by copying it: AcidPenguin9873
How does it feel to have your name stolen?
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
Note I said "If what GP says is true". I obviously have no sources to cite to verify the original post. But the responder asked what his point was (in a rather snarky ill-mannered way) so I responded with the obvious answer.
Pirates and Online Porn has always been at the forefront of internet technologies.
From here on out I am calling copyright infringement RAPE. Because, after all, that's how I want to frame it. Every time you infringe a copyright, you are raping the artist. And it should carry the same punishment of up to life in prison (or, as has been proposed in some states, death.) Because I say so.
Death to the artist-raping file-sharers!
Yeah, you go TPB. That just means more software for the taking without having to pay someone for it. It doesn't matter if it took you 2-3 years to make that new game, my first thought won't be, "How much is it?" but, "Where can I get the torrent?" And you'll help me find it.
To the guy who was asking how to get paid for free software, you want paid for something I can get for free? Hahahaha! Sucker. No one pays for software any more. We just take what we want because we don't care if you get paid or not.
Go TPB! Long live not having to pay someone for their efforts!
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What I don't like about TBP is how they were bank-rolled by a man who can be reasonably called a neo-nazi.
Imagine the outcry if Sony had somebody like Carl Lundstrom on their board.
Nobody thinks content providers don't deserve money. People resort to piracy for all sorts of reasons: availability, lack of funds, convenience, try-before-you-buy, etc. I don't think anyone pirates purely out of spite for someone, and if they did they'd be pretty darn stupid.
I do have something to hide. I don't intentionally show my naked body to strangers. Just because someone wants to hide something it doesn't mean it is illegal.
If what GP says is true, then TPB is making profits (via ad revnue) by enabling people to steal (yes, steal! I said STEAL when referring to copyright infringement!) the creations of others.
Mod me redundant because I and many others have often belabored this point, but AcidPengion is FUCKING WRONG and looks like an idiot.
Look, Penguin (please change your user name, you're making Linux users look bad), here's how copyright infringement works. I buy (BUY AND PAY FOR) a CD or DVD, make a copy and GIVE it to you. I have infringed copyright, you have not. You have stolen nothing; it was freely given. I have stolen nothing; I paid for my copy.
Now tell me, Acidhead, how has either party stolen anything?
Here's how you steal music -- you go into Best Buy and shoplift a CD. That is indeed stealing. Best Buy no longer has the CD they paid for, it's gone. If you're caught, you'll be charged with a misdemeanor and will pay a few hundred bucks in fines.
When you download a CD's worth of music you didn't steal that music, it was given to you. But say you're uploading and get caught -- that's copyright infringement. Nobody has lost anything, and will likely in fact produce sales, as one book publisher discovered when he commissioned a study to find out how much file sharing was costing him. Unlike stealing music, if you get caught infringing copyright you'll be out thousands of dollars.
They are profiting off of the work of the artists and creators without giving any of that money to the creators themselves.
If I buy a used Ford, Ford makes no profit off my money. None at all. If I use that Ford to start a taxi company, I am profiting from Ford's work without giving Ford any of that money at all.
I have yet to hear about TPB paying creators any money.
They're giving the artists something for free that the artist would otherwise have to pay very large sums of money for -- advertising. You're not going to pay for a song from a band you never heard, but if someone tells you about them and you DL their work, you're very likely to spend money on them unless they suck* -- money they would not have earned without the help of the Pirate Bay.
Now go tell your MAFIAA masters you failed in your shillage, tool.
* I do perfectly understand why a talentless hack would be against file sharing. The only way for them to make money is to sell you a pig in a poke.
Free Martian Whores!
I live in a city with a strong gaming development community. The business models are shifting, but the general trend is up rather then down.
Also, I sell some software. No DRM or anything. It is probably out there on a torrent somewhere. Do I care? Nope. I make money and I realize that most of the people who torrent it very likely would not buy it even if the torrent would't exist.
Copying has been an issue for commercial software development pretty much since the cassette tape. If you look at the world around you, it hasn't exactly killed the software industry.
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