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New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up
Techmeology writes "Just days after the UK Pirate Party was forced to kill its proxy service Pirate Parties in Argentina and Luxembourg have created their own proxies. In a statement, the Pirate Party in Argentina said: 'We wish the UK Pirate Party best of luck in their continued fight for free access to culture and knowledge. We have put up our own Pirate Bay proxy which is accessible from anywhere in the world, including the UK and other places where it has been censored.'"
Just another case of the internet routing around censorship. Is anyone really truly surprised by this?
-- John Gilmore
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
Make mirrors, not proxies! You know, routing around confiscated servers is difficult.
Ezekiel 23:20
Chop off one head, multiple ones spring up in its place.
You don't need your own proxies. Just tell people to use Tor. It'll access TPB and other torrent sites just fine. Just remind them that downloading the torrent files (or magnet links) might be anonymized, but trying to tor-ify your bittorrent client is an excercise in futility, as well as seriously degrading the limited resources of the network; Nobody routes bittorrent traffic on Tor.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Free culture is about thoughts and ideas, not goods and services.
Artists must work for free, they must produce a certain amount of art each year for free, musicians must hold concerts for free, their work can be freely copied and distributed.
HOWEVER, they are entitled to anything THEY WANT for free.... a house, car, food, electronics.... they can walk in with their RIAA/MPAA or what ever card it is into any business and take what that want for free, the cost of these goods/services (NOT including profit) gets spread evenly among the employer and all employees.
So here we have it. The artist works for everyone for free and everyone works for the artists free, the perfect solution.
We get free access to culture, they get free access to society.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
-- Princess Leia to Grand Moff Tarkin
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Seriously judges. Just give it up. You're only making it 'worse'.
It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
I'm a little aghast at what slow learners the pro-copyright corporatist extremists and their front groups really are.
I've convinced that they will never learn ever -- and that we'll simply have to wait a generation for these stupid, venal old white men to die before they are replaced by people willing to see logic and reason, and realize that locking up culture behind contrived barriers, and lobbying/corrupting government into propping up their broken business models is a long term losing proposition.
The MAFIAA are proof that human greedy and stupidity is truly infinite.
Exactly where are the Pirate Bay servers? You can't confiscate them if you can't find them.
All that money spent in the courts to get ISPs to block the Pirate Bay from direct access, and by the ISPs to implement the ruling, and for what? It appears only the lawyers won. The artists aren't any better off as a result, the "industry" isn't getting any fatter, and the pirates were only slightly inconvenienced for the five minutes it took to find a way around the blockade. You know, given this perspective, I'd suggest that the "industry" spends that money helping people in Africa or poor regions of the US (yeah, I crack myself up sometimes).
Question for religious people: where do unrepentant masochists go when they die?
accessible from anywhere in the world, including the UK
I wonder how many UK-business days before this is no longer the case?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/pirate-bay-proxy-ban-causes-seconds-of-inconvenience-2012122054253
Why must I go to some remote location every single time I wanna search for a torrent, which in most cases has been added a long time ago? That site could be down, or slow, or betray me to the SOPA commies... It would be better if I scraped torrent sites into a local database, updated via a daily cron job, and then searched for torrents via tools running locally on my system, which would pass the magnet link to the BitTorrent downloader program. (Just storing magnet links would require very little disk space, but even storing all metadata, comments, and the torrent file isn't unrealistic given today's HDD price per GB.) I'd then share that database and related tools via P2P, so everyone would have their own read-only Pirate Bay on their own hard drive. And, once many users would have these tools bootstrapped, their db sync functionality can be extended to adding new torrents and submitting comments in a P2P manner - far more resilient than a single Web-site / domain name.
If only my time was infinite... I didn't even yet make any headway on my current project - to scrape all Slashdot comments and dump the database to BitTorrent... ;-)
--libman
If they really wanted to take down TPB, who cares? Shut down the domain name and all the IPs it points to today, as long as nobody can reach it then it's for all practical purposes down. I'd be surprised if they even have actual servers anywhere, and not just encrypted tunnels leading to a leased machine or the cloud. In fact, they probably have hot spares they can redirect the tunnels to if any of their "servers" are compromised.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Make mirrors, not proxies! You know, routing around confiscated servers is difficult.
That makes it even more important for everyone to chip in !!
No matter it's mirror or proxy it needs a server to host.
If you have a server to spare, or if your server has bandwidth to spare, please consider sharing what you have to host a public proxy and/or mirror.
BTW, does anyone have any more listing of alternative proxies / mirrors?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
They moved to the 'cloud', making it near impossible for authorities to raid the servers the site is hosted on:
http://www.google.com/search?q=tpb+moves+to+the+cloud
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
You can experience the culture for free. Walk around the areas with culture. Most museums I've been to were free (for at least some portion of the exhibits). And walking into a restaurant or hotel is free.
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I think that might ultimately just move the piracy scene back to these more underground warez spots. These easy-to-use, well known sites might eventually die. When you are already talking about transmitting magnet links via mail or IRC, it becomes much more impractical and the torrents won't get that much seeders anymore.
Even if TPB proxies and mirrors can be sprung like mushrooms, there could be major problems if the master site is closed. Sure, you can make a mirror of the torrent files and send around the magnet links and it will work. But after that, how can you add new torrents, and do other kind of administration? Who and how will then moderate everything?
I was wondering why they didn't even throw up a token defense (spend a single day in court) when they were charged to take down the proxies. They clearly knew that their friends in other jurisdictions would take up the fight. Now any attempt to take down the other proxies will look like desperate acts of desperate people.
Can't wait to see the next move in this one-sided chess game.
I sure wish people would quit pretending that there was any issue of "rights" here. Even in the EU they have not defined a right to entertainment or to not paying for entertainment.