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The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No it isn't.

  2. Re:Well, we'll see how THAT works out for you by Jacek+Poplawski · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is probably hoax

    https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake

  3. It's a fake routing by Zarhan · · 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

  4. Not yet by segoy · · 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 · · 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.