The Pirate Bay in the cloud
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The Pirate Bay in the cloud
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Re: The Pirate Bay in the cloud
#2For UK Visitors:
The Pirate Cloud
So, first we ditched the trackers.
Then we got rid of the torrents.
Now? Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud.
The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All, surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real.
If there is data, there is The Pirate Bay.
Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours.
All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing. The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us.
Adapt or be forever forgotten beneath the veils of maya.
Re: The Pirate Bay in the cloud
#3I would love technical details. Anyone know if they have published them anywhere?
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#4In practice this probably means several replicas of the site dormant in different cloud providers. The providers won't have a clue until they go live.
In effect, they are replacing their current legal protections with a game of cat and mouse as they switch between clouds.
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#5Silly article, silly rhetoric.
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#6sure "thepiratebay" as we can define it is linked to wherever the DNS entry points to?
That is the single point of failure, even in a move to the cloud.
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#7The announcement is rather nebulous, as is their way. TorrentFreak has a more detailed explanation: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-become...
It's pretty much what you'd expect, though: The web site is now running on VMs on two unnamed cloud providers, accessed through a load balancer. All traffic is still routed through servers they control. The cloud providers apparently don't know that they're hosting the pirate bay, or pirate cloud as it were. If a cloud provider goes away, they can move to the VMs to another one. If their own transit routers go down, no data is lost and it's easy to get back and running.
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#8For UK Visitors: The Pirate Cloud So, first we ditched the trackers. Then we got rid of the torrents. Now? Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud. The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All, surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real. If there is data, there is The Pirate Bay. Ou…
Also, the UK Pirate Party has a "cloud" mirror of TPB:
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
And there is a Tor hidden service for it as well, which can not be taken down unless Tor it's self is taken down:
http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/
And for those who want to use Tor hidden services, but don't have Tor installed:
Re: The Pirate Bay in the cloud
#9sure "thepiratebay" as we can define it is linked to wherever the DNS entry points to? That is the single point of failure, even in a move to the cloud.
I think the point is that they can recover extremely quickly after any take downs. Much more quickly than it takes to organise the take down in the first place. Making it pretty much pointless to do.
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#10sure "thepiratebay" as we can define it is linked to wherever the DNS entry points to? That is the single point of failure, even in a move to the cloud.
There are many failure modes for a site like TPB. This move removes many, not all, of them. One important failure mode that has been removed is the one where the servers are seized and information on them is used to go after users.