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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?
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.
Yeah, who do they think they are... A goverment or some company? Why the nerve! Filthy pirates!
-Give me a gun and I can rob a bank, give me a bank and I can rob the world.
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.
. 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
Yeah, who do they think they are... A goverment or some company? Why the nerve! Filthy pirates!
-Give me a gun and I can rob a bank, give me a bank and I can rob the world.
Give you a position of power and you can rob anything and anyone you want for the most part...
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
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)
It's a search engine to torrent sites.
It's not, you're describing a torrent meta-search site (e.g., Torrentz). Sites like Torrentz index sites like TPB and KAT.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
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?
That revolves around stealing other people's stuff.
Governments?
No sig today...
Why bother? We already have pirate bay proxies: http://proxybay.info/
No sig today...
Give me control of a planet's oxygen supply, and I won't care who runs the banks.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
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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.
The only difference between governments and the mafia is that the government just has bigger guns.
And this isn't even sarcasm. In the earlier days of history, Right of Conquest was a legally recoginzed principle of international law.
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.
Give me control of a planet's oxygen supply, and I won't care who runs the banks.
Give me control of the Spice and I'll control the universe.
The only difference between governments and the mafia is that the government just has bigger guns.
No, the difference is that governments are what stops the mafia from being just another corporation with bigger guns.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Give me control of the Spice and I'll control the universe.
Harrumph. I believe that _my_ line.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
With government, as with the mafia, you have to be a "made man" to have any power. Otherwise, you are just a soldier working to gain power for others....
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.
Wow, that's a lot of uninsightful moderation. The only thing that allows you to own something in the first place is the existence of laws and something that can enforce them, i.e. a government. Laws set up rules for what things can be owned, and what it means to own them (e.g. how one can come to own something and how one can lose them). Without that, you don't have property, you only have stuff that somebody stronger hasn't arbitrarily chosen to take yet.
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.
... that revolves around copying, distributing and publicizing for free other people's stuff.
FTFY.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
"... 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...
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.