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New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up

Posted by timothy on from the let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom dept.

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.'"

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  1. Well color me shocked. by erotic_pie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just another case of the internet routing around censorship. Is anyone really truly surprised by this?

    1. Re:Well color me shocked. by skovnymfe · · Score: 2

      The lawyers, politicians and business CEOs seem consistently surprised every time something like this happens.

    2. Re:Well color me shocked. by Jetra · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Archaic laws make for archaic thinking.

    3. Re:Well color me shocked. by dinfinity · · Score: 4, Informative

      There are a lot of proxies:
      http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html

      Actually, there are a lot of proxy lists:
      https://www.google.com/search?q=tpb+proxies

      Really, trying to legal block proxies on the internet is one of the dumbest things ever.

  2. This quote never stops being true by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

    -- John Gilmore

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  3. Make love, not war! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Make mirrors, not proxies! You know, routing around confiscated servers is difficult.

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  4. Proxies by girlintraining · · Score: 2

    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.

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    1. Re:Proxies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Routing BitTorrent over Tor is bad idea and you should never ever do it. But guess what, if you do want to anonymize your BitTorrent traffic, there's a protocol for that: OneSwarm. It's not a perfect solution, but it does something similar to what you actually wanted when you thought you wanted to run BitTorrent over Tor.

  5. The PERFECT Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:The PERFECT Solution by Runaway1956 · · Score: 2

      That's so asinine - no, sorry, it's just stupid.

      Artists are entitled to a fair wage for their services. If artists get off their butts, go out, and perform their arts, they can get paid. The problem with the current scheme of things is, beginning artists believe that if they sign with a record label, do a few songs, they should be on easy street for the rest of their lives.

      Soon enough, they figure out that the game is rigged, and if they stop performing, easy street turns into a dead-end. But the LABEL continues to reap profits for nothing for another hundred years, plus eternity.

      Almost nothing stands between the artist and the audience. Entertain, and you'll be rewarded. You may not become zillionaires going that route, but you'll be rewarded.

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  6. The more you tighten your grip by houghi · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
                                    -- Princess Leia to Grand Moff Tarkin

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  7. Barbra Streisand effect by Aethedor · · Score: 2

    Seriously judges. Just give it up. You're only making it 'worse'.

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    1. Re:Barbra Streisand effect by Aethedor · · Score: 2

      Worse for the record-mafia and their judge-friends. Better for the rest of the world.

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  8. Slow learners by benjfowler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Slow learners by benjfowler · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I presume that by you posting Anonymous Coward, and by mischievously lying about what I said, that you are shilling for the MAFIAA.

      Nevertheless I'll reply to your lies and misrepresentations.

      Please tell us, what is the NEW business model ?

      From you post, I gather they are not allowed to sell their work, so what options are left ?

      Lie #1. I did NOT say that artists could not sell their work. What I DID say, is that MAFIAA criminals should not be allowed to saddle us with stupid, onerous laws and endless copyright, because some ageing conservative white male retard can't figure out how to stream music, instead of selling merchandise, concert tickets, or streamed music.

      Advertising, well ad blockers are popular , so that business model is already broken too

      Yes. What are you going to do about it? Anybody with half a fucking brain could tell you that you can't make the world revolve on banner ads alone. Just because we've managed this long doesn't mean it's sustainable.

      Concerts, Umm... well if I can get all their music for free why would I pay to go to a concert ?

      You are a profoundly stupid and ignorant person. Fans are only too happy to support their favourite artists by paying big money to go to concerts and buy their merchandise. Statistics show that while record company revenue from shiny bits of plastic are falling (and despite their despicable behaviour and acts of political corruption and bastardry), revenue from live concerts is increasing year on year. Record companies now sign artists on comprehensive deals, which includes recording, merchandise, concert promotions-- the whole kit and kaboodle. Get your facts straight.

      Given that flying a Band, Stage setup, venue hire, etc etc etc plus the ability to live for the rest of the year for everyone costs a lot of money and they will have no other income ticket prices will rise, either that or the business model you envision is the mediocre pub band who make their real living in other ways.

      Explain in detail exactly what this new business model is as you obviously think you have a much better idea.

      You must have been born with calipers. That is what normal and rational people call a 'straw man argument'. Would you like me to spell it out for you?

      Frankly, the record industry can fuck off and die in a fire. With the Internet, modern computers and software, record companies are about as useful as tits on the proverbial bull. Like all middlemen, they are parasites, and only serve to enrich themselves on the talents and hard work of good artists, and the naivete of the general public. The 'curation' function of record companies is no longer required. The criminal MAFIAA's associates employee fuck-all people, pay fuck-all tax, do fuck-all for the health of our culture, and will serve us best by collectively eating shit and dying.

  9. Re: TPB location by DanielRavenNest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly where are the Pirate Bay servers? You can't confiscate them if you can't find them.

  10. Whose money did they spend? by advantis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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).

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  11. Oblig Daily Mash by cyber-vandal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/pirate-bay-proxy-ban-causes-seconds-of-inconvenience-2012122054253

  12. Care to share? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 2

    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?

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  13. Re: TPB location by hack++slash · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

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