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The Pirate Bay's 'Move' To Korea Was a Prank

Posted by Unknown on from the couldn't-wait-three-weeks dept.

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.

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  1. A day of mourning in North Korea by Grayhand · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:A day of mourning in North Korea by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Stop the presses! Kim Jong Un has just announced that Gnome founder Miguel de Icaza is moving to North Korea to head their complete IT move to Apple platforms. Kim's statement read: "We like Apple and their approach. We, of all people, GET IT. The customer must be fully managed, just as we fully manage our freedom-loving citizens."

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    2. Re:A day of mourning in North Korea by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

      He briefly paused eating cake.

  2. Re:North Korea by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did you hear about Kim Jong dying? I hadn't heard that he was il.

  3. Re:North Korea by Antipater · · Score: 5, Funny

    His son took over, though. Did you at least know that he had Un?

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  4. Re:North Korea by clarkkent09 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Not just a simple prank by futhermocker · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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  6. Re:North Korea by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Funny

    As in, "I was going to move my server farm to North Korea, but the Ping count is just way too high."

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  7. Re:in other words by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:North Korea by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 5, Informative

    I always thought it had something to do with the fact that Poland still had a horse-mounted cavalry at the beginning of WWII. Hitler famously staged a fake cavalry attack to justify invading Poland. I think that image of Polish cavalry charging across the border with their swords raised toward's Hitler's tanks has resonated through the ages.

    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.

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  9. Re:North Korea by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.