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.'"

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Exactly what Namecoin was designed for...

[Thantik]

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.

"Seizures"

[girlintraining]

. 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.

Re:"Seizures"

[Fluffeh]

It's the digital equivalent of seizing an empty PO box.

What's amusing is that it takes them months of meetings, requests, follow-ups, investigation, more meetings, some additional requests and some more meetings - all costing thousands and thousands and some more thousands.

TPB on the other hand fills in a few little details in a webform for the most part.

Dear Government, You're fucked, now fuck off. Sincerely, The Internet.

I would change that ever so slightly. Dead Big Business, the government is fucked here, stop bothering them already will you? At the end of the day, the governments want happy, content people who have all the access to entertainment they want - after all it makes them more complacent.

Re:A Whole Social Movement

[Joce640k]

That revolves around stealing other people's stuff.

Governments?

Re:Whats really amazing.

[rvw]

It is a model I expect more small businesses, legitimate and otherwise, to do more often. It's the only reasonable reaction to a corrupted government... let alone over a hundred of them, all corrupted to varying degrees.

Corruption or coercion? Many countries simply can't afford to ignore the "wishes" of the US (or China or Russia).