The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea • Hacker News Board

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by mayank » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

gee_totes wrote: post #2

Sergey Brin, Dennis Rodman, and now the Pirate Bay? This is the weirdest PR campaign ever

Eric Schmidt, not Sergey Brin.

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by dewey » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

WhoIsSatoshi wrote: post #25

I don't like it. Putting the web's biggest P2P website in the hands of one of the most authoritative dictatorial regime - what could go wrong? Security issues anyone? Seems fishy at best, and if true it is counter productive: it will not reflect well on TPB...

Pretty good idea or do you think NK will release _any_ informations to american based entertainment companies?

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

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Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by kintamanimatt » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

johndoeee wrote: post #17

endianswap wrote: post #3

I'm sorry, but is this a joke? Or were they seriously offered server space in North Korea as some sort of political/PR thing?

The route goes to NK traceroute thepiratebay.se output: 12 INTELSAT-IN.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.156.82.14) 127.129 ms 121.898 ms 121.857 ms 13 209.159.170.215 (209.159.170.215) 214.763 ms 196.291 ms 210.602 ms 14 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 697.258 ms 711.336 ms 693.061 ms 15 175.45.177.217 (175.45.177.217) 696.368 ms 699.046 ms 702.013 ms 175.45.177.217 Seems to be an actual IP in NK[0] [0] http://bgp.he.net/AS131…

I get a German IP, 194.71.107.15 and the tracepath results take the route nowhere near Asia.

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by olenhad » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

The irony here is just too much to swallow. Of all possible places, a party campaigning for greater freedoms ends up in NORTH KOREA. I used be proud of defending tpb. Now I'm really not sure.

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by xutopia » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

Isn't it one month early for April fools? Oh wait...

Seriously this is mind boggling! I can't believe it has come to that!

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by pavanky » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

johndoeee wrote: post #17

endianswap wrote: post #3

I'm sorry, but is this a joke? Or were they seriously offered server space in North Korea as some sort of political/PR thing?

The route goes to NK traceroute thepiratebay.se output: 12 INTELSAT-IN.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.156.82.14) 127.129 ms 121.898 ms 121.857 ms 13 209.159.170.215 (209.159.170.215) 214.763 ms 196.291 ms 210.602 ms 14 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 697.258 ms 711.336 ms 693.061 ms 15 175.45.177.217 (175.45.177.217) 696.368 ms 699.046 ms 702.013 ms 175.45.177.217 Seems to be an actual IP in NK[0] [0] http://bgp.he.net/AS131…

I don't see it in my traceroute. It is going through Frankfurt.

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by popee » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

WhoIsSatoshi wrote: post #25

I don't like it. Putting the web's biggest P2P website in the hands of one of the most authoritative dictatorial regime - what could go wrong? Security issues anyone? Seems fishy at best, and if true it is counter productive: it will not reflect well on TPB...

Same as with Gerard Depardieu. He/they made choice not to be in one kind of dictatorship so they escaped to other. So it seems like pretty subjective stuff (personally i think it's wrong), but it's their choice so who cares. Why do you care?

Here is what they think:

"This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information."

Is this false?

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by saryant » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

johndoeee wrote: post #17

endianswap wrote: post #3

I'm sorry, but is this a joke? Or were they seriously offered server space in North Korea as some sort of political/PR thing?

The route goes to NK traceroute thepiratebay.se output: 12 INTELSAT-IN.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.156.82.14) 127.129 ms 121.898 ms 121.857 ms 13 209.159.170.215 (209.159.170.215) 214.763 ms 196.291 ms 210.602 ms 14 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 697.258 ms 711.336 ms 693.061 ms 15 175.45.177.217 (175.45.177.217) 696.368 ms 699.046 ms 702.013 ms 175.45.177.217 Seems to be an actual IP in NK[0] [0] http://bgp.he.net/AS131…

My route, from the US, was one hell of a world trip. Bounced around the US a bit then back and forth between NYC and Frankfurt, finally down to Nigeria (appears to be a satellite uplink), over to Cambodia and then into NK.

Huh.

Re: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

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Post by IvyMike » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:24 PM UTC

astrodust wrote: post #19

chimeracoder wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible that people in the DPRK refer to themselves as the 'Republic of Korea' in an attempt to deny/disqualify the existence of any other 'Republic of Korea'? (ie, 'The one true Republic of Korea' or something like that).

Why do communist countries insist on calling themselves "democratic"? If you're such a firm believer in that philosophy, why not have some pride?

I read a joke somewhere that as countries become more and more totalitarian, they add more and more freedom-implying qualifiers.

So (for a not-quite-correct example) things would progress Congo -> Republic of Congo -> Democratic Republic of Congo -> People's Democratic Republic of Congo.