'The Pirate Bay' is planning to deploy servers... in the sky?

[garyopa]

And nope, it's not an early April's Fool joke.

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TPB plans to attack censorship with low orbit server drones flying above international waters... Even if it doesn't sound realistic, the plan is real.

Bitorrent site The Pirate Bay just shared a pretty crazy idea. Seems they are planning to deploy servers on airborne drones several kilometers above international waters, in order to make it harder to censor or shutdown the site or its content.



The Pirate Bay today unveiled their new mission. They’re working on ‘hosting’ parts of their site in GPS-controlled drones, instead of old-fashioned data centers.

“Everyone knows WHAT TPB is. Now they’re going to have to think about WHERE TPB is,” The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak. We were further informed that the first drone will probably fly above international waters.

“We’re already the most resilient and the most down to earth. That’s why we need to lift off, being this connected to the ground doesn’t feel appropriate to us anymore,” TPB told us. Although the line between reality and fantasy can be rather thin at The Pirate Bay, we were assured that the plan to launch a drone is real.


So, this crazy plan is quite real... and if they ever manage to do this, no one will touch The Pirate Bay for sure. "It's apparently a literal approach to cloud computing."

NEWS SOURCE #1: The Pirate Bay's attacks censorship with server drones (via) Torrent Freak (http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bays-attacks-censorship-with-server-drones-120318/)
NEWS SOURCE #2: Low orbit servers or a pirate prank (via) DataCenterKnowledge (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/03/19/low-orbit-servers-or-a-pirate-prank/)

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news story!

[wewii]

WTF??? Who thinks of this?

Whats stopping the military from shooting down this drone as soon as it enters sovereign skies to recharge or whatever?

[TinyBilbo]

WTF??? Who thinks of this?

Whats stopping the military from shooting down this drone as soon as it enters sovereign skies to recharge or whatever?

You're right, except the drone would'nt even need to enter sovereign skies...
Any country can apply "Universal Juristrication" to International waters in the case of a ship committing a criminal act, such as, errr..., Piracy - lol.
I would guess the same applies to the skies, except that the piracy involved is a little different :)

[Nocuddle]

coming soon...
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[Xenogears V]

Need to come back, Megaupload...torrent is the past.

[Nocuddle]

Need to come back, Megaupload...torrent is the past.

Maybe if Dot Com can uses his monthly pocket money to start a new servers.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/kim-dotcom-to-live-off-just-46700-a-month/story-e6frfro0-1226307293718

$46700 a month??! This guys a freakin billionare!! Gimme some Kimmy!!! I'll kiss ur fat ass.

[billysastard]

Maybe if Dot Com can uses his monthly pocket money to start a new servers.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/kim-dotcom-to-live-off-just-46700-a-month/story-e6frfro0-1226307293718

$46700 a month??! This guys a freakin billionare!! Gimme some Kimmy!!! I'll kiss ur fat ass.

chances are that he should get most if not all of his assets back since the government siezed them under an illegal warrent and only applied for the correct one once they had a list of wwhat they wanted to take (ie the stuff they already took), that is working its way very quietly through the courts at present.


oh and $46,700 is probably just his basic living costs, as you say he's a billionaire so you can be sure that his bills will be a lot higher than most peoples.

[Nocuddle]

chances are that he should get most if not all of his assets back since the government siezed them under an illegal warrent and only applied for the correct one once they had a list of wwhat they wanted to take (ie the stuff they already took), that is working its way very quietly through the courts at present.


Im not into law (nor ever watched L.A. Law series or Judge Judy) i dun really understand these jargons bullshits so my apology for my ignorance.

So NZ gov chuck him into jail for a brief moment, the US trying to extradite him, then his bail got approved, let him back into the wild & get his monies partially for his montly living expense.

I am confused. So did he commited the crime or not? How the hell he is able to get that kind of pocket money? I thought those NZ gov seized em, no? O_o;
I know they took his 'servers', some personal properties & stuff like that, but I thought his 'earning' considered crime (uh ah dirty money lol). Unclean money = zero access.
Maybe I missed sumthin as I havent followed his latest news lately.

I wish I am fat, rich & with surname COM (or ***, i wish!). I am dreaming now of what to spend with my $46700... per month... sigh... that is like slightly over of my per annum... sigh... how unlucky of me...

[garyopa]

oh and $46,700 is probably just his basic living costs, as you say he's a billionaire so you can be sure that his bills will be a lot higher than most peoples.

$46,700 is nothing, I used to spend $22k per month just living, and then cut it back to around $15k per month. -- Ugh, that was tough.

Now I save my money, as I live on tropical island, and my bills are thousand times cheaper per month, which is good as I also making alot less money (just peanuts) these days compared to the super-duper days of the '90s.

[Nocuddle]

$46,700 is nothing, I used to spend $22k per month just living, and then cut it back to around $15k per month. -- Ugh, that was tough.

Now I save my money, as I live on tropical island, and my bills are thousand times cheaper per month, which is good as I also making alot less money (just peanuts) these days compared to the super-duper days of the '90s.

send me cheque plz kthxbai

;)

[billysastard]

Im not into law (nor ever watched L.A. Law series or Judge Judy) i dun really understand these jargons bullshits so my apology for my ignorance.

So NZ gov chuck him into jail for a brief moment, the US trying to extradite him, then his bail got approved, let him back into the wild & get his monies partially for his montly living expense.

I am confused. So did he commited the crime or not? How the hell he is able to get that kind of pocket money? I thought those NZ gov seized em, no? O_o;
I know they took his 'servers', some personal properties & stuff like that, but I thought his 'earning' considered crime (uh ah dirty money lol). Unclean money = zero access.
Maybe I missed sumthin as I havent followed his latest news lately.

I wish I am fat, rich & with surname COM (or ***, i wish!). I am dreaming now of what to spend with my $46700... per month... sigh... that is like slightly over of my per annum... sigh... how unlucky of me...


well the answer is, who knows if he's guilty or innocent, he hasnnt been tried.

the other thing to consider is that you can forget nz law or the nz government this operation is entirely run by the american government (sponsored by the corrupting influence of criminal cartels like the mpaa, riaa etc), they are issuing the commands and saying what has to happen, the problems occur when actual uncorrupted nz judges get involved and say "hey, this wasnt legal" and so the case unravels, however as long as the americans get their final wish (extradition) then frankly they couldnt give a toss about how many laws in other countries they break or coerce to be broken, i'd imagine that as we speak dark forces are at work carefully selecting judges and issuing suitably stuffed envelopes, also worth remembering that jurors (if involved) are selected "at random" but cant be questioned, so any bets that any part of the case in nz that requires a jury will not contain a single person who's ip has ever connected to megaupload (or similar sites).

of course once he gets to america then they might as well hold the "highlights" on the main floor of the bellagio in vegas because you can count on it being a show trial the likes of which havent been seen since the Nuremberg trials, or at least the prosecution side, they wouldnt dare show the defense side for fear of peoples opinion being clouded by things like "truth" and "facts" (although i'm sure the prosecution will have a few facts, so far most of what the usa has said has been rhetoric).