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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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.