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Pirates of the Caribbean: the Pirate Bay Moves To Island of Sint Maarten
New submitter coolnumbr12 writes "For the second time in a week, The Pirate Bay has found a new home for its popular torrent website. A complaint issued Tuesday by Swedish prosecutors threated the Icelandic domain, forcing the file-sharing pirates to take harbor in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with a new .sx domain name. 'Control of the island, which has just 78,000 residents, is split between France and the Netherlands. Around 41,000 live on the Dutch side and 37,000 on the French. ... Even if the court grants the prosecutor’s request it remains to be seen how effective any seizures will be. Time and again the BitTorrent site has responded by relocating to new domains.'"
Is they hop around the world with almost no downtime at all.
Even the best sites that we PAY for can barely manage to do simple upgrades and changes and say the same..
are they really moving or it is some kind of quick DNS thing?
That revolves around stealing other people's stuff.
It's a search engine to torrent sites.
It's like twice removed from the actual copyright infringement. But on the other hand, it *is* famous and if that isn't a good enough reason to shift the infringement twice removed, then what is.
It's more of a KLM thing, here are the pirates landing at St. Maarten...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIJ0F62og4
I really kinda hoped they'd set up a .bit domain. I know, I know -- a lot of people are thinking "oh the bitcoin hype", but Namecoin is basically calculated off of bitcoin "for free", and it's meant to be a censorship-free domain name system. ThePirateBay needs to setup thepiratebay.bit and utilize namecoin as a censorship-free domain registration option.
given all the wealthy libertarians who rely on this service
how much would it cost to launch an array of microsatellites in non-geosynchronous orbits. that would accept updates from
a signed source of sufficient power, then stream the whole list to an array of ground stations as they sped past
each costing no more than 1k euros, that would announce themselves periodically on a ipv6 multicast channel
i'm almost half serious
I like to imagine that the Pirate Bay servers are located on a pirate ship that pulls up anchor and sets sail to another part of the world when they run into legal trouble.
its so tame nowadays :(
. Even if the court grants the prosecutorâ(TM)s request it remains to be seen how effective any seizures will be.
Ineffectual as always. All they're "seizing" is a forwarding address. It's the digital equivalent of seizing an empty PO box. You just open up a new one and continue on your merry.
It's already been proven that the internet routes around censorship... and it does so through peer communication. People who pirate know other people who pirate... and the seven shades of separation and all that ensures that a new address would propagate through social networks in days.
So, how do I put this gently...
Dear Government, You're fucked, now fuck off. Sincerely, The Internet.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
It's distribution, and if the copyright holders want money, they should just find a way to monetize it.
e.g.
Track movie torrents
Record IP addresses
Make a website showing what movies your IP address has downloaded
Offer to clear the infringment by paying the fee.
Make one official, agree, trusted payment site
User pays reasonable fee (e.g. $10/DVD, $20 Bluray)
Buy some adds, as they surf show them the movies they've been recorded downloading.
Once you have them as customers, sell them new movies
After a few years start pursing the big infringing ones who haven't signed up
Time and again the BitTorrent site has responded by relocating to new domains.
They should implement themselves in software, and put it on BitTorrent.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I thought the .sx address was being blocked by the GFWoC, but apparently the DNS just hasn't propagated, because I can't access the new address from my USA based VPN, either, at this point.
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.piratebay.sx/
The following error was encountered:
Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.piratebay.sx
The dnsserver returned:
Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query.
his means that:
The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
Check if the address is correct.
Your cache administrator is webmaster.
Generated Wed, 01 May 2013 05:48:57 GMT by google.com (squid/2.7.STABLE6)
The whole architecture of the internet is built around decentralized management. If one part fails, other parts take over and people will replace the failing parts with what resources they can get available. "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Yeah, this is former President Bush, ol' #41, handilfying the submissionsions at the Slashed Dots...on the web of world wide.
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Amen to that. That's exactly what happened to Wikileaks and the financial blockade forced by the USA government. A little protection racket talk against Visa and Mastercard ("nice little business and cash flow you've got there. You wouldn't want to forfeit all of it by continuing to provide processing and money access to some punks like wikileaks, then, would ya?") and suddenly there was no way for Wikileaks to get any donations from anyone. You are so right about corrupt governments. Sad but true.
Just a domain change (.sx), presumably. A new domain can be registered and active within afew minutes.
Downtime is usually due to a server/script issue, not propagation, in my experiences...but is that a bad sign?!
TPB has absolutely DICK to do with BitTorrent or its creators.
TPB is a site that aggregates links to torrent files that pirates created, much to the chagrin of the BitTorrent and users who use it for legitimate purposes.
But, again, to describe TPB as a "BitTorrent site" is patently false at best, and a thinly veiled attempt at associating TPB with the creators of BitTorrent at worst.
They'll never be truly secure until they become Time Pirates...
>Implying that Sweden have jurisdiction over Iceland and their Domain
Goatse - the Mona Lisa of the Internet.
If the UN get ahold of the net, expect seizures for anti-islam sites being hosted in the USA. People who argue for the UN to rule the net don't understand what they're arguing for.
There's nothing further to discuss on this matter.
it'll be as easy as googling thepiratebay
Only until some movie studio sends Google a notice of claimed infringement under OCILLA. "We found torrents for ten of our most recent DVD releases by typing their titles into this search engine. (Please refer to attached result page screenshots.) These releases are being offered to the public without our permission and in a manner not consistent with fair use. In part because of its history of openly defying notices of claimed infringement, courts in at least one country have found The Pirate Bay guilty or liable of contributory infringement of our copyrights. Google could be just as guilty or liable by continuing to link to The Pirate Bay. So please remove from your index the following domains where The Pirate Bay can be reached."
I much prefer to be ruled by a democratic government than by a corporation
What is a democratic government other than a corporation whose citizens each hold one share that converts to a voting share at the age of majority? Citizens get to elect the board of directors (called Parliament, Congress, etc.), and in many countries, citizens directly elect the CEO.
Yes they are famous now so they get to use THE.
I thought THE was for when you're not famous. When Facebook wasn't quite famous enough to buy facebook.com from whoever owned it at the time, it had to use thefacebook.com.
Have you been paying attention to Italy recently?
Last I checked the Mafia *WAS* running the government, as well as being the sole reason they hadn't financially imploded.
Freedom is slavery.
Mystical quest to the isle of tortuga...
"... Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with a new .sx domain name. 'Control of the island ... is split between France and the Netherlands."
Yes, the island is split into French and Dutch parts. The Dutch part is called Sint Maarten and the French part is called Saint-Martin. The respective residents may use those names for the island as a whole as well, just to be confusing; English speakers call the island Saint Martin. I believe the TLD .sx is officially assigned specifically to the Dutch dependency of Sint Maarten, not the island as a whole; the French dependency ISPs apparently uses .fr or .gp (from nearby Guadeloupe). Also, Sint Maarten (the Dutch entity, not the island) used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles, which recently dissolved, and so may be using its .an TLD...
TLDR: eat shit
Pls mod up Bus(/car/any_transportation_media) = Bit Torrent Protocol Type of bus(public transport/commute) = file sharing Road(where it runs) = web - A person uses a bus to go(and carry his bag) from a place to another.. - that same person deliver some bombs to a government office.. All this doesn't means that the transportation is bad..or the road is Bad..or even the type of bus... it totally depends on the person what he/she is using that bus for. Also, it would totally illogical if the government / any corp. tries to block the Road, the type.of bus or even tries to filter out busses Lol they tried that'all and everytime they got a big mid. Finger shown to Them and their alliances.
this place has a nudist resort