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The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea
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."
I'm sorry, but North Korea is the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", whereas South Korea is the "Republic of Korea". There is a huge difference.
The Republic of Korea is South Korea.
The Democratic People's Korean Republic is North Korea.
The summary says Republic of Korea, which should mean South Korea...
The comments and the article are typically OK. It's the summaries that are screwed up!
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Sir Humphrey: East Yemen, isn't that a democracy?
Sir Richard Wharton: Its full name is "The Peoples' Democratic Republic of East Yemen."
Sir Humphrey: Ah, I see, so it's a communist dictatorship.
Without doubt, North Korea will take some remuneration from the Pirate Bay, which makes the Pirate Bay give money and credibility to a country with a population living in fear and hunger, and strengthening a regime that operates concentration camps.
This shows that they either have not thought this through, or they have no stance on human rights (i.e. they show they just want to download illegal stuff, not increase freedom of individuals). I hope this is a joke or will be retracted.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
OTOH, when TPB started everything they currently do was perfectly legal. The laws have changed a lot since then.
The laws have changed a lot since then.
Indeed, mainly because the laws are both being written and applied to enforce what the fat-cats don't like.
TPB: We don't host the files, we host torrent information. That's not illegal!
Fat-Cats: We don't like that. That's now illegal.
TPB: Okay, we don't host torrent files anymore, merely link a hash, that's not illegal.
Fat-Cats: We don't like that, we will block you anyway and think of a new way to make what you do illegal.
TPB: We don't do anything that Google doesn't do, that's not illegal.
Fat-Cats: We are blocking you from [insert country] now, your illegal tirade is over!
TPB: We will just appear under a new IP or domain... We aren't doing anything against the letter of the law....
and so on, and so on... etc... repeat... meh.
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
Do as we say, not as we do.
They had to close the consulate in Australia once because they couldn't afford to run it anymore.
50k might be peanuts to you but it would is cold hard cash.
NK has been trying to sell IT services for a while now. You can outsource pretty much anything there, if you can stomach it.
From NK's point of view, this might NOT be about 50k, it might be about the millions/billions the RIAA claims are made by copyright infringement that they want a slice off. The UN gave one small island group the rights to hurt the US by giving them permission to violate US copyright law... NK could hardly get in more trouble for doing the same AND thinking they are going to get payed for it.
Plus their leaders are just batshit crazy, the previous guys had an unknown number of people abducted (from outside NK), including relatively famous ones because he wanted them to work for him. There is no career in NK telling the leader his idea is silly.
One of the most shocking things I saw was years ago when people were actually shopping outsourcing and when you asked where it was outsourced they said Korea, which I found odd because Korea's standard of living is rather high and they also need every tech person they can get for themselves... and then I remembered there were two korea's. I was actually sitting in a presentation with someone trying to persuade us that outsourcing flash game production to a prison camp was a good idea.
It would be like going back in time and witness a powerpoint slide by the nazi's (you can see the link) about the cheap labor to be had in their polish facilities. I have lived a sheltered life really like most western people. But that day I saw true evil. Someone bought a truckload of gold teeth and did not ask questions and someone sends emails with work instructions to NK and does not ask questions.
TPB is making a gigantic mistake. Once again, the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend. But the friend of my enemy is most assuredly my enemy.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.