The Pirate Bay migrates to Best Korea

[Jonathan Ingram]

The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets ‘Virtual Asylum’





The Pirate Bay says it has been offered virtual asylum in North Korea. The move comes after the Norwegian Pirate Party was forced to stop routing traffic for the infamous BitTorrent site by a local copyright group. “We can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the Republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network,” the Pirate Bay says. A traceroute indeed suggests that The Pirate Bay is now being routed through the dictatorial country.

Last week the Swedish Pirate Party was forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay.

The Party and its leaders took this difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group.

Luckily for The Pirate Bay, the pirate parties of Norway and Catalunya were willing to take over the role. However, after just a few days the Norwegians had to shut down their Pirate Bay node as well, facing similar threats as their Swedish comrades.

This resulted in some downtime earlier today after which The Pirate Bay returned online from a rather unexpected location.

A Pirate Bay insider informs TorrentFreak that they had been working for a while to get connectivity in North Korea. Today they made the big switch.

“We’ve been in talks with them for about two weeks, since they opened access for foreigners to use 3G in the country,” a Pirate Bay insider told us. “TPB has been invited just like Eric Schmidt and Dennis Rodman. We’ve declined up until now.”

While The Pirate Bay may not visit North Korea, they announce that they are using the country’s network to connect the BitTorrent site to the rest of the world.

“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 are 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,” they add.

The Pirate Bay says that it sees the current step as one forward for North Korea, and the BitTorrent site hopes that all North Koreans can soon access the site to foster freedom of information.

“We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country’s changing view of access to information. It’s a country opening up and one thing is sure, they do not care about threats like others do. In that way, TPB and Korea might have a special bond.”

“We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can. When someone is reaching out to make things better, it’s also ones duty to grab their hand,” TPB concludes.

It’s worth noting that the Korean connection is used to hide Pirate Bay’s true location. The cloud servers behind it are still believed to be hosted elsewhere in the world.

While it’s hard to believe everything The Pirate Bay says, the site does indeed route through a North Korean netblock at the moment. Wheter it is sanctioned by the authorities, or if there is perhaps some hacking and hijacking trickery involved is unclear.

However, for some reason we think that Hollywood and the major music labels will have a hard time shutting that node down.

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[Skyline]

[O. Van Bruce]

the amount of Irony is too strong to handle it... I don't know anymore

[Friendly]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... rth-korea/

Tom Paseka, an engineer at Web security company CloudFlare, confirmed to Ars that The Pirate Bay announcement is "almost certainly" a fake. Border Gateway Protocol is used to make routing decisions about how to move Internet traffic, and it's based on a "trust model" that makes it relatively simple to insert a bogus "autonomous system" or AS number into the route.

"In this case, they've dropped AS131279, the North Korean backbone's network number, into the mix," Paseka said in an e-mail to Ars. "The routing is inconsistent with how AS131279 does their routing—they usually route via China Unicom, AS4837. The Pirate Bay's prefixes are not routed via this path."

[Jonathan Ingram]

^
Typical anti-Juche propaganda. Not a word of truth!

[Friendly]

[O. Van Bruce]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013 ... rth-korea/

Tom Paseka, an engineer at Web security company CloudFlare, confirmed to Ars that The Pirate Bay announcement is "almost certainly" a fake. Border Gateway Protocol is used to make routing decisions about how to move Internet traffic, and it's based on a "trust model" that makes it relatively simple to insert a bogus "autonomous system" or AS number into the route.

"In this case, they've dropped AS131279, the North Korean backbone's network number, into the mix," Paseka said in an e-mail to Ars. "The routing is inconsistent with how AS131279 does their routing—they usually route via China Unicom, AS4837. The Pirate Bay's prefixes are not routed via this path."

So, who shall we believe? because I tend to believe those who are constantly menaced by big corporations.

[Ed Oscuro]

So, who shall we believe? because I tend to believe those who are constantly menaced by big corporations.

Whatever Communists say must be true!

Anyway, not a scrap of credibility to this. NK wouldn't want anybody to have access to a good portion of the torrents on the 'Bay; for example, owning a copy or watching disaster movie 2012 has gotten people prosecuted for anti-state activities.

[GaijinPunch]

I knew Dennis Rodman was up to some good shit ove there!

[Ed Oscuro]

Haha. While we're on the theme of nauseating exploitation news, this made me smirk

[evil_ash_xero]

Man, that is hilarious.

[BulletMagnet]

Haha. While we're on the theme of nauseating exploitation news, this made me smirk

Seriously, just kill me now.

[O. Van Bruce]

Haha. While we're on the theme of nauseating exploitation news, this made me smirk

because my sand pennis IS bigger than yours...

Now really, it's depressing how a bunch of countries can act like they do just because they were blessed with that much petroleum.

[jonny5]

my sand pennis

Seriously? You took it there? Wow. Keep that racist shit out of here!

[O. Van Bruce]

my sand pennis

Seriously? You took it there? Wow. Keep that racist shit out of here!

I'm not being racist... I don't have anything about the people itself... it's the kind of things we see from arab sheiks and monarchs that makes me throw up. My city is full of pakistanis and moroccans and they are ussually nice people, the nicer of all the inmigrant comunities after latinoamericans.

[jonny5]

my sand pennis

Seriously? You took it there? Wow. Keep that racist shit out of here!

I'm not being racist...

Right You just put 'sand' before penis because.....

[Friendly]

Seriously? You took it there? Wow. Keep that racist shit out of here!

I'm not being racist...

Right You just put 'sand' before penis because.....

He's not a native English speaker; maybe he has never heard the slur "sand nigger", which I assume you are referring to?

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm not sure I had either, but O. Van Bruce, you're on a roll today!

[O. Van Bruce]

Seriously? You took it there? Wow. Keep that racist shit out of here!

I'm not being racist...

Right You just put 'sand' before penis because.....

Just because It's an insult used by racist doesn't mean it implies a racist meaning. anyway, you are thinking too much, the article just pissed me off and that's the only insult I know specifically adressed to arabs, that's all.

And yeah, I know english speakers use sand niggers as a derogative word for then.

I'm not sure I had either, but O. Van Bruce, you're on a roll today!

Eheheeee... I feel flattered

Not my best day, I know... doesn't help to the bad reputation I probably have here anyway, I'm not harming anyone. Most of the times (not in this case) I use a derogative term as a joke... I've even refered myself as a weaboo when I totally know they are delusional fanboys of "japanese culture".

[jonny5]

Just because It's an insult used by racist doesn't mean it implies a racist meaning.

So if he wasn't from an Arab country, what would you have put in front of penis, completely not racist-ly of course?

No need to back pedal or explain to me how a racist statement isn't racist, just think before you post.

Also, way to stay classy Friendly.

[O. Van Bruce]

Just because It's an insult used by racist doesn't mean it implies a racist meaning.

So if he wasn't from an Arab country, what would you have put in front of penis, completely not racist-ly of course?

No need to back pedal or explain to me how a racist statement isn't racist, just think before you post.

Also, way to stay classy Friendly.

Once again, you are thinking too much into it. Is it really that painful for you that I say that about an arab?

And well... if he wasn't arab I'd have said another thing or made a facepalm. Then, why did I have a more visceral reaction seeing he was one of those arab millionaires? Because they run their countries without paying any attention to human rights. Besides, they have a pervasive influence over important governments like the USA or GB using something that is theirs just by accident: petroleum. there are a lots of crimes that go without punishment just because of their power... they also give political assilum to former dictators or criminals.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

I'm not being racist...

that's the only insult I know specifically adressed to arabs, that's all.

[jonny5]

Once again, you are thinking too much into it. Is it really that painful for you that I say that about an arab?

No need to back pedal or explain to me how a racist statement isn't racist, just think before you post.

You can say what you want, my interest is only in keeping that kind of stuff out of this forum. I don't need to be reading a thread on The Pirate Bay, or anything else for that matter, and see racist shit for no reason, whether intended or simply ignorant. You may find nonchalant racism OK and no big deal, but that's where it all begins. Where do you draw the line? Better to avoid that line altogether and leave race out of it.

[O. Van Bruce]

I'm not being racist...

that's the only insult I know specifically adressed to arabs, that's all.

OK then, I'll stop the show right here. If you can't spot the difference bettwen an indignated person and a racist then just keep thinking of me as a racist.

[jonny5]

I'm not being racist...

that's the only insult I know specifically adressed to arabs, that's all.

OK then, I'll stop the show right here. If you can't spot the difference bettwen an indignated person and a racist then just keep thinking of me as a racist.

Being angry or annoyed with someone is fine, but when you direct that anger into racial slurs, it is racism, whether you grasp that or not.

Sorry to the mods for the OT; this kind of shit bugs me, and I find it hard not to speak out against it.

[O. Van Bruce]

You can say what you want, my interest is only in keeping that kind of stuff out of this forum. I don't need to be reading a thread on The Pirate Bay, or anything else for that matter, and see racist shit for no reason, whether intended or simply ignorant. You may find nonchalant racism OK and no big deal, but that's where it all begins. Where do you draw the line? Better to avoid that line altogether and leave race out of it.

I'll answer this because it's the first coment that tries to go beyond "OMG you are an evil racist". I can draw that line because I've been subject of racism here for being south american. That doesn't deny the fact that sometimes my comunity deserves the derivative terms the spanish use sometimes.

[jonny5]

You can say what you want, my interest is only in keeping that kind of stuff out of this forum. I don't need to be reading a thread on The Pirate Bay, or anything else for that matter, and see racist shit for no reason, whether intended or simply ignorant. You may find nonchalant racism OK and no big deal, but that's where it all begins. Where do you draw the line? Better to avoid that line altogether and leave race out of it.

I'll answer this because it's the first coment that tries to go beyond "OMG you are an evil racist". I can draw that line because I've been subject of racism here for being south american. That doesn't deny the fact that sometimes my comunity deserves the derivative terms the spanish use sometimes.

So you feel because you have been called racial slurs, it's ok for you to use them against other races? That's some logic you got there.

Also, none of my posts were "OMG you are an evil racist"; I simply called you out on what you said. Don't like it? Don't use that kind of language in your posts. Simple, no?

[BulletMagnet]

I'm not familiar enough with the terms invoked here to know how serious they might be, but until this is sorted out methinks it's best to lock this topic for now, though it might be reopened later depending on what's found out. Any further discussions on this matter should be taken to PM either amongst yourselves or with the mods.