Pirate Bay moves its infastructure to the CLOUD (yarrhhh)

[CaptainAmerica]

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becomes-raid-proof-121017/

The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world’s most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure.The Pirate Bay is loved by millions of file-sharers but is also a thorn in the side of the entertainment industries.

The latter group continues to push authorities to take action against the site. The Pirate Bay was raided back in 2006 and there are rumors that the police might try again in the near future.

The Pirate Bay is not oblivious to this looming threat. They have backups in place and are shielding the true location of their servers. Nevertheless, should the site lose all its servers it might take a while to get back online.


“If the police decide to raid us again there are no servers to take, just a transit router. If they follow the trail to the next country and find the load balancer, there is just a disk-less server there. In case they find out where the cloud provider is, all they can get are encrypted disk-images,” The Pirate Bay says.(insert lols)

“They have to be quick about it too, if the servers have been out of communication with the load balancer for 8 hours they automatically shut down. When the servers are booted up, access is only granted to those who have the encryption password,” they add.

For Pirate Bay users the move to the cloud doesn’t change much though. If anything, they will notice significantly less downtime.

read more at the web link.

Pirate Bay lol


“The communication between the load balancer and the virtual servers is encrypted. So even if a cloud provider found out they’re running TPB, they can’t look at the content of user traffic or user’s IP-addresses.”

http://torrentfreak.com/images/pirate-cloud.jpg

[evilfunnystuff]

Interesting

[HOLLYWOOD]

A favorite Pirate VIDEO :D


http://www.hulu.com/watch/10305

[youngbuck]

This is some good, old-fashioned win. Those who raid (as opposed to RAID ;)) torrent servers need to be raided themselves.

[fr33]

Yay piratebay is back!

[dannno]

I don't understand why the entertainment industry can't see reality.

Drug use is illegal. Drug use in prison is illegal. There is heavy drug use both in prison and outside of prison.

If we can't keep people kept behind bars from getting drugs, how does anybody expect to keep drugs out of the hands of people in a free society? Same applies to copyright violations - both victimless crimes. It's completely ludicrous.

[paulbot24]

What is really great is knowing they're probably not telling the whole truth about the cloud setup just to create confusion. Long live pirate bay.

[Simple]

They were talking about flying their servers in drones a while back. Makes me wonder if they mean in literally when they talk about going to the cloud.

[presence]

http://cdn.ientry.com/sites/webpronews/pictures/thepiratecloud_320x245.jpg
http://thepiratebay.se/


'Raid-Proof'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/pirate-bay-cloud-raid-proof_n_1973522.html?utm_hp_ref=technology


The Pirate Bay is getting rid of its physical servers and exchanging them for virtual machines spread across multiple cloud services. By hosting its infrastructure in multiple data centers and even multiple countries, the widely used torrent site says it will avoid being shut down by authorities targeting BitTorrent sites.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/the-pirate-bay-ditches-its-servers-sets-sail-for-the-cloud/


The Pirate Bay is transitioning to The Pirate Cloud
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"Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud," the group said (http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/224).
The Pirate Bay got rather philosophical, arguing that the cloud is "everywhere; immaterial, yet very real." Just as Anonymous says that we are all Anonymous, The Pirate Bay said that "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," the site said. "Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours."

As a result, attacks on the Pirate Bay are "an attack on everything and nothing." For now, The Pirate Bay website will continue "for as long as we want it to."


http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411106,00.asp



In 2006, police in Sweden raided The Pirate Bay, shutting down its servers and taking the site offline.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) now says its new cloud-based servers, which use the internet for storage, do not have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent - making it impervious to attempts to close it down.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19982440




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.
http://thepiratebay.se/blog/224

[PreDeadMan]

Isn't it interesting what the market can provide in response to silly laws and government tyranny? :)