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."

Comments

Nope.

[Anonymous Coward]

No it isn't.

Re:Nope.

[cheater512]

Do as we say, not as we do.

Re:Nope.

[fsterman]

TPB as operating expenses of ~$100,000. If half of that went to a single bandwidth provider, NK would have enough money to cover 1 middle-class contractor at an embassy.

The money coming in from TPB will have exactly zero impact on Kim Jong-un's capacity to violate human rights.

Re:Well, we'll see how THAT works out for you

[Jacek Poplawski]

This is probably hoax

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

It's a fake routing

[Zarhan]

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

The Glorious Leader

[Anonymous Coward]

once downloaded the entire Star Wars trilogy in 4k with zero seeders. He achieved zero lost packets and a share ratio of infiniti +1.

Re:The difference - it's enormous

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly. You can tell how much better a place North Korea is because it's a democratic people's republic.

The Exception That Proves The Rule

[American AC in Paris]

Slashdot: the only site on the Internet where you get solid information in the comments, but only a fool would venture into the news post.

Not yet

[segoy]

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.

Re:Not yet

[Anonymous Coward]

+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.

Yes Minister

[countach]

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.

Re:Ahhhhhhh....

[Fluffeh]

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.