The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea

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The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 4, 2013 @10:16AM from the best-practices dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with news that The Pirate Bay claims North Korea has offered the site virtual asylum. A press release reads: "The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information. Today, a new chapter is written in the history of the movement, as well as the history of the internets. A week ago we could reveal that The Pirate Bay was accessed via Norway and Catalonya. The move was to ensure that these countries and regions will get attention to the issues at hand. Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network."

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Nope. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-04 10:17 · Score: 5, Informative

No it isn't.
Re:Well, we'll see how THAT works out for you by Jacek+Poplawski · 2013-03-04 10:19 · Score: 5, Informative

This is probably hoax
https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake
The difference - it's enormous by villew · 2013-03-04 10:19 · Score: 2, Informative

Republic of Korea != Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
It's a fake routing by Zarhan · 2013-03-04 10:22 · Score: 5, Informative

Not based in North Korea, but a fake. Basically they have hijacked couple of IP addresses and set up fake BGP advertisement, and probably generated an artificial delay with some Linux box to emulate a satellite link. Most likely the 'bay is now hosted from Cambodia.
In-depth analysis here:https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake
1. Re:It's a fake routing by anarcat · 2013-03-04 14:24 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  and there's a followup now that validates what you're saying pretty clearly..
  https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake-p2
  quite interesting read!
  
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Not yet by segoy · 2013-03-04 10:54 · Score: 5, Informative

The article doesn't say they are being hosted from DRNK, it says they've been invited to. The /. title is a poor summation, but the fact that they're not currently hosted there does not disagree with the content of the linked blog post.
1. Re:Not yet by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-04 13:16 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  +1
  You'd think with all the tech stories (Samsung is based is South Korea) and general international interest in North Korea that you'd get more of a reaction here from a confusion between the two.
  Republic of Korea = South Korea
  Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea
  Note: I also live in South Korea and recently had difficulty proving my address because a UK bank confused the two.
2. Re:Not yet by joe545 · 2013-03-04 21:22 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Despite the name, the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation is actually British
Re:North? Are you sure? Please confirm. by Dins · 2013-03-04 11:24 · Score: 4, Informative

Well, the press release on TPB's blog is datelined Pyongyang, so there's that...
Re:Antipiracy hijacking of traffic by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-04 11:48 · Score: 2, Informative

lol, good job you posed anon egh? wouldnt want to confirm you are an idiot interpreting a traceroute and whois would we ?
try increasing the hops on your trace, level3 (who you whois'd) is a massive backbone/tier 1 provider, their domain name is managed by MarkMonitor who managed large brand domain names, but you know that right ?
The internet - one big irony machine. by hack++slash · 2013-03-04 12:07 · Score: 3, Informative

TPB is blocked here in the UK on the major ISPs (mine included), which after their move to NK means a 'free' country is now blocking a site in a 'closed' country.

How did that happen?

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Re:Nope (but traceroute/whois says yes) by Forever+Wondering · 2013-03-04 19:28 · Score: 3, Informative

traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
6 ae-7.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.52)
7 ae-4.r21.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.102)
8 ae-2.r23.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.145)
9 ae-2.r02.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.159)
10 xe-4-1.r02.dsdfge01.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.65)
11 * * *
12 213.198.77.122 (213.198.77.122)
13 * * *
14 xe-0-1-0-3.r02.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.62)
15 xe-0.level3.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.8.202)
16 vlan90.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.254)
17 ae-82-82.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.25)
18 ae-61-61.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.66)
19 ae-21-70.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.155.67)
20 INTELSAT-IN.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.156.82.14)
21 209.159.170.215 (209.159.170.215)
22 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 837.620
23 175.45.177.217 (175.45.177.217)
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whois 175.45.177.217
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[Redirected to whois.apnic.net]
[Querying whois.apnic.net]
[whois.apnic.net]
% [whois.apnic.net node-3]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum: 175.45.176.0 - 175.45.179.255
netname: STAR-KP
descr: Ryugyong-dong
descr: Potong-gang District
country: KP
admin-c: SJVC1-AP
tech-c: SJVC1-AP
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
mnt-lower: MAINT-STAR-KP
mnt-routes: MAINT-STAR-KP
remarks: This object can only be updated by APNIC hostmasters.
remarks: To update this object, please contact APNIC
remarks: hostmasters and include your organisation's account
remarks: name in the subject line.
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20091221
source: APNIC
role: STAR JOINT VENTURE CO LTD - network administrat
address: Ryugyong-dong Potong-gang District
country: KP
phone: +66 81 208 7602
fax-no: +66 2 240 3180
e-mail: sahayod@loxley.co.th
admin-c: SJVC1-AP
tech-c: SJVC1-AP
nic-hdl: SJVC1-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-STAR-KP
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20091214
source: APNIC

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