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The Pirate Bay's 'Move' To Korea Was a Prank
judgecorp writes "The Pirate Bay's announcement that it was moving to North Korea was a prank, making fun of gullible readers. Admitting the hoax, the site said 'You can't seriously cheer the 'fact' that we moved our servers to bloody North Korea. Applauds to you who told us to f*** off. Always stay critical. Towards everyone!'"
The essence of a good troll: so absurd it could just be true.
Well I don't believe you.
Apparently Kin Jong Un was inconsolable as he read the story in his pirate outfit. Then some one explained to him Pirate Bay wasn't an actual bay with pirates.
Why did the NK submarine fleet sink? They left the screen doors open.
Why did the submarines have screen doors? To keep the fish out!
I'm sure that Poland is thrilled that NK has taken over their long worn mantle.
full disclosure: there is a lot of Polish peasantry among the branches of my family tree.
The CB App. What's your 20?
They're just a bunch of kids, and no need to trust them.
Yep. Nice to see our culture is marginalizing itself as it struggles in a fight for legitimacy.
When I first read that story, I was indeed looking for a link to The Onion.
Did you hear about Kim Jong dying? I hadn't heard that he was il.
His son took over, though. Did you at least know that he had Un?
Everything is better with chainsaws.
Don't know about elsewhere, but I grew up in northern Michigan were there were quite a few Polish families who homesteaded in the 19th century. The soil quality there was so poor (mostly sand) that harvests were generally pretty poor. Many immigrant families ended up with three meals a day of cornmeal mush and potatoes, and children raised on that kind of diet tend to mentally stunted if not outright retarded. In our area at least the Polack jokes had some relevance.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
I always wondered why Polish jokes exist too. Looks like Wikipedia has a pretty good write up on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_joke
Both are irrelevant.
What we could discuss instead is the viability of North Korea as a server hosting country.
Given that one of Korean family names is "Ping", I'd say they are pretty well positioned.
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The real joke is that many of the site users apparently cheered the "move". Apparently forced labor concentration camps, widespread torture, arbitrary arrest and murder of citizens by the government, collective punishment for entire families and villages, complete absence of freedom of speech, no independent media, death penalty listening to foreign radio are bad, but not as bad as IP laws that prevent you from downloading stuff you want for free.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
I wasn't sure who to side with but I'm ready to admit that NK is a bit worse than the MPAA/RIAA.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
They moved their servers to Hugo Chavez' crypt.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
because they applied some BGP trickery to have the IP resolve in NK
https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake
KERNEL PANIC -SIGFAULT AT ADDRESS #51A54D07
It's the telephone company that's behind all the polack jokes.
They're always driving Poles into the ground.
As in, "I was going to move my server farm to North Korea, but the Ping count is just way too high."
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
This is what is most disappointing. It's hard to take people seriously when they're pulling childish pranks like this. And there are a lot of issues regarding copyright and piracy that we *should* be taking seriously and debating. Stunts like this are annoying distractions, and only strengthen the RIAA/MPAA and its ilk.
Read: "I totally fell for it."
You know what makes it really hard to take someone seriously? When the get all butthurt because they didn't get the joke.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
It wasn't against the law when they started it. The laws were made after the fact.
This is almost as absurd as the rumor that floated around yesterday that Obama held a candlelight vigil at the White House in honor of Hugo Chavez. A lot of people ate it up and went into orbit... then it was revealed to be a hoax... except some people apparently showed up at the White House, candles in hand, and had a vigil for him anyway out on the street and put pictures of it on various social media.
Kinda the odd, self-fulfilling hoax I guess.
Not really all that odd, when you consider their philosophy is that since software is not a tangible good, it is impossible to steal (copies aren't stolen, because the original is still there).
Besides, even if they did see it as theft, it still wouldn't be that odd that thieves would take a moral stance against despotic, iron-fisted dictators. "No honour among thieves," and all.
What I find odd is the fallacy of equivocation, i.e. stealing software is morally the same as forced labor and state-sanctioned murder.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Anything, anything at all to get information into that country is a very good thing.
Ageed. However, this move would not have contributed to such a goal. Not at all.
Of course, the truth was that that never happened. Polish cavalry were dragoons (that mans they rode horses to battle, then got down off the nags and fought like innfantry), just like every other cavalry force still extent then (USSR used them, for example).
It should also be noted that there were more horses in use by the Wehrmacht than the Poles. 90+% of German "prime movers" were draft horses, not trucks/tractors.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
The real joke is that many of the site users apparently cheered the "move". Apparently forced labor concentration camps, widespread torture, arbitrary arrest and murder of citizens by the government, collective punishment for entire families and villages, complete absence of freedom of speech, no independent media, death penalty listening to foreign radio are bad, but not as bad as IP laws that prevent you from downloading stuff you want for free.
Red herring much?
Cheering a move to NK doesn't imply cheering human rights abuses.
The cheering was for no other reason that the Pirate Bay was moving to a country that would not give a rat's ass what the U.S. or EU thought about copyright law and file sharing, nothing more. It is possible to hold mutually exclusive opinions on these two topics last time I checked.
Only seems fair. They wouldn't want you to be lonely.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Indeed your argument is true.
I don't agree with countries that torture, hold extraordinary renditions, run black concentration camps, indiscriminate murder other countries citizens, incarcerate its innocent citizens or bankrupt them to protect corporate larceny, but I do host my sites there.
Just bought a new quantum computer, but I'm uncertain how it works.