PRESS RELEASE, NEW PROVIDER FOR TPB
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 3 MARCH 102, 평양 (PYONGYANG).
The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information. Today, a new chapter is written in the history of the movement, as well as the history of the internets.
A week ago we could reveal that The Pirate Bay was accessed via Norway and Catalonya. The move was to ensure that these countries and regions will get attention to the issues at hand. Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network.
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.
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.
why do you always do your april's jokes in march?
1 gw.customer.shef3.opal.lan (10.122.192.1) 0.299 ms 0.290 ms 0.303 ms
2 gw-ring1-1.shef-mlx.w1.ask4.net (81.23.53.67) 8.215 ms 8.231 ms 8.274 ms
3 lon-xmr-10ge.w1-the.core.ask4.net (81.23.51.250) 14.271 ms 14.494 ms 15.007 ms
4 v212.core1.lon1.he.net (216.66.80.197) 4.990 ms 5.011 ms 4.992 ms
5 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.ams1.he.net (72.52.92.82) 12.499 ms 12.532 ms 21.403 ms
6 ams-ix.as39138.net (195.69.147.245) 17.252 ms rrbone.dus.ecix.net (194.146.118.105) 18.800 ms 16.175 ms
7 * * *
8 xe-0-1-0-3.r02.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.62) 93.863 ms 89.692 ms 89.665 ms
9 xe-0.level3.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.8.202) 94.740 ms 91.622 ms 89.644 ms
10 vlan90.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.254) 172.343 ms 158.773 ms 158.729 ms
11 ae-82-82.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.25) 112.654 ms 112.652 ms 117.545 ms
12 ae-61-61.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.66) 134.057 ms * 126.351 ms
13 ae-21-70.car1.N
14 INTELSAT-IN.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.156.82.14) 128.301 ms * 125.334 ms
15 209.159.170.215 (209.159.170.215) 197.128 ms 189.507 ms 189.498 ms
16 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 801.225 ms 790.610 ms 789.841 ms
17 175.45.177.217 (175.45.177.217) 792.452 ms 792.284 ms 790.311 ms
18 * * *
175.45.76.0-175.45.179.255
Registered to:
STAR-KP
Ryugyong-dong
Potong-gang District
KP
[...]@[...]:~$ traceroute thepiratebay.se
traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
[...]
13 INTELSAT-IN.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.156.82.14) 142.860 ms 144.998 ms *
14 209.159.170.215 (209.159.170.215) 219.576 ms 196.842 ms 238.065 ms
15 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 735.538 ms 739.384 ms 730.985 ms
16 175.45.177.217 (175.45.177.217) 737.104 ms 729.864 ms 727.769 ms
175.45.177.217 is in best korea.
Their country is the worst: if you are rich you can do what you want, if you are poor you can die in the street no one care.
As it is, the GOP only cares about $$$ and pleasing their corporate overlords, so I don't see that happening anytime soon.
The democrats get billions from Hollywood and Chris Dodd is the president of the MPAA.
Both of the corporate parties oppose tpb.
Seems out of character for North Korea.
So what can be so juicy that make them want to leave their belief behind and become another hypocrite?
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Damn this is like in the old days when christians hunted witches (women knowing medicine) and other "evil".
Come to think of it they haven't stopped doing that.
Still fighting gays, sex education (freedom of sex) and science (evolution).
Politics was so much simpler back then. If i guy made trouble and didn't want to play nice, you kill him.
Why can't we nuke america and be done with it?
We could also assassinate the top tier people that run the trouble making machine but a nuke is simpler and sends a clear message. Like how MPAA and their fines calculated with a yet unknown secret magic formula. Putting people in jail for more years than a serial killer.
I wish the "freedom" fighting americans used their stock of weapons to kill these bastards.
The "republic of Korea" is South Korea. You're talking about North Korea, the "democratic people's republic" (in name only, of course).
Also, this actually seems kind of in character for North Korea. They will do anything to be unlike the US, unlike the other "bad" countries. Weed is even legal there, of all places, probably just because the US started prohibition.
but hope not the american dogs start a nuclear war over this.
You're both basically Chinese.
Ich bin Bruno the dove of peace....
North Korea FTW! I am from north korea and my country should be called "Neverland" coz its so cool. Also we have free internet and work. Never belive what you saw in TV, coz people here are living good. Cya niggers... i'm going to watch with my family some executions on the main square, and then i'm gonna watch Twilight Saga on my free 50'' new plasma TV, bye bitches.
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8119297/Escape_from_Camp_14__One_Man_s_Remarkable_Odyssey_from_North_Kor
And another funny thing. I always the loads of seeders from the US not the much from north korea recently.
North Korea ftw
https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake
They are actually hosted near Cambodia.
Shame on you TPB.
One thing is to fight greedy corporations....
Another thing is to ally with dictators and thugs!
What next? The Taliban, Al Qaeda, Iran???
Are you guys willing to drink the Kool-Aid??
You might think that you're using the DPRK as a tool for the greater good, but it will in fact be using you. And it will turn all of your good works into a pile of putrid pig shit. What good faith efforts has your new BFF undertaken in terms of extending your freedom-of-information principles to its slave labor force? The answer is clearly 'none.'
I honestly hope that someone has simply hacked your site and this is some sort of an epic troll or an early April Fools. Because the alternative is almost too horrific to contemplate.
At-least now North Korea is good for something that's just epic.
TPB provide so much knowledge to ordinary people, from Africa to Japan and Europe , people who cannot afford to give 20 dollars fro book or 1000 dollars for courses.
Knowledge in our small life is everything , and you guys from TPB are heroes of small poor people.
This is a disgrace for the pirate community!
And when some of you criticize rich people, the former leader of NK was the one who has over 40 palaces across the country, loved expensive brandy and luxury cars while the ordinary people had nothing and got the whole family killed for saying something against this.
TPB was always eager to support freedom of speech and now you're just selling yourself to the most hardcore dictatorship of the world? Congrats, let me get off at the next port pls.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/20129410312450511.html
Long life T.P.B. Korea + T.P.B. = Censorship Freedom
LONG LIVE
THE PIRATE BAY
Yep. In fact, it's not only surreal for TPB to have an N. Korean host, it's impossible.
But what you TPB should do, is create themselves its own OUTER HEAVEN! Yes, find a way to be selfdependant, independent from outside laws and resources! And be free to share knowledge on the lands, the seas and our skies, to the galaxy, and beyond!
It's a communist dictatorship with state run media, state controlled internet, etc.
This is a satire.
Dont disguise TPB's activity as an ideology because it is not.
TPB is a consumerist reaction to the abusive practices and prices of the companies, and to governments that rule favoring these same companies.
Although I reckon that moving TPB to North Korea is a smart move, based on the violent persecution practiced by companies and Police, North Korea is nothing more than a criminal State, that profits from slavering the local population.
I really hope its a joke, and I wish all the best to the admins of TPB.
Anyone who even thinks ANYTHING good about North Korea is a total tool shit bag. Did you know the only people that live in the city of Pyongyang are those that have displayed an undying commitment to the regime, a regime that claims racial superiority over the rest of the worlds people, a regime that's people are starving to death and as a result the average height of a North Korean is a few inches lower than those in the South. A regime that says if you commit a crime not only are you sentenced to certain death in a labor camp but your entire family as well?
They have an entire city built on the DMZ to entice the South Koreans to cross over, yet not a single soul lives in that city because it is just that, a peice of propaganda.I have sat 6 kilometers from that horrible little country as they lobbed mortar shells into the south for no reason at all. So get off your "freedom" high horse.
Yeah, it better be a joke. Putting
TPB is faking (or, "spoofing", for the technically minded out there) IMCP responses, they're not really in the DPRK. Even though I kind of wanted this to be real. ;__;
Go back to playing with your crayons now kids.
Good one though - The mainstream media, and in turns the average joe - will be buying this for months. Americans will be calling european pirates for commies from now on xD
That is, if this "press release" is actually true. I highly doubt it myself, but then again desperate people does retarded things.
And it's hard to imagine the "good" people at TPB getting much more desperate then this.... I mean, with the jail and the multi million dollar fine and all....
But now it turns out on top of wanting to bankrupt private entertainment companies these people don't even have scruples about associating with the most cruel totalitarian military dictatorship on the planet.
Really, how fucking low can you sink? Licking the boots of a murderous kleptocratic mafia clan. Good job. What a bunch of cretins, I really wish to see fat pigs like Kim Dotcom and Kim Jong-un suffer.
BY THE WAY, "Republic of Korea" refers to SOUTH KOREA. Democratic People's Republic of Korea refers to North Korea.
I liked what you said, and yes, it will be good if you can influence North Korea and their authorities.
I would prefer to purchase content, or do without it, rather than know a single packet of mine was helped along by that insane, inhuman, cruel dictatorship.
I dont mind stealing content, but my moral line in the sand is here.
Shame on you TPB if this really is true.
Regards
If it is a hoax, rather than being another in joke, laugh and back slapping moment for the "well off avante guarde techno elitist IT generation", I hope you advocate bone fide for the suffering people.
Without that, this is not a protest for rights, its a placebo.
But between koreans getting their freedom massacred and me downloading, i guess it's a fair sacrifice
Kim Jong Un is a nasty motherfucker!
I lived in communist dictatorship country, my parents lived in such a country, and i would never, ever wish anyone to live in country like this.
This regime, i murdering it's own people, killing inicent people, and you dare to say that they are ok, coz they gave you "internet asylum", that they are opening, did history do not give you any hint about how cinical they moves are, that they will never change...
This kids from west... mad...
I don't know how much you know considering there's a LOT of leaks confirming that North Korea is in a state of slow change, economic but nonetheless it is change. Kim Jong Un is inexperienced in politics but at least he's not like Kin Jong Il... something's changing. It'd be worse if his militant brother was in power!
North Korea has a bad, bad history and reputation, but even then, there is a glimmer of hope and change, and at times, we must dig through the dirt to find and see this change for ourselves. Just give it time, for it is too early to tell what revolutionary things we might hear from N.K.
If this move to N.K. from TPB is legit, then they are going in the right direction: NK is not dictating content, just hosting the site's cloud services, according to a source, they are using NK's network to hide TPB's true location, in which the western world can't track nor trace past the Star-NK network!
TPB is not going to be hosted by NK, but the governme
everybody seems to have an opinion about this, it is bad or it is good, well i cant, i dont know, how can i know what´s happening for real in that country?
all i can say is that im sure there are different ways to make this work
i think it is time to start a revolution, a real one, against the U.S.
i want the world to step up and put an end to the U.S., they´ve gone too far and nobody seems to say anything against it, and a lot of people look at them first before answering what is right or not.
the only thing that goes against the U.S. is terrorism, and thats bad, is like going from bad to worse.
Is time that common people like you and i start taking control of our lives, and not let a few corrupted people decide whats best for us
I defend TPB, i dont approve this move, as i said, there must be another way
Anyway, the farther from america in legal sense, the better
I believe that the whole idea of a perfect pirate haven is probably just a fantasy dream but its ppl like us pirates and kopimists and all the ppl that help run TPB that keep giving me hope that this dream just like martin luther king
more about the things your own country is doing,
not only to you, even to other countries.
BTW, you shouldn't use your double standards everyday, 24/7.
That works in your country, not in the internet.
Of course this is not true. Maybe future provider will ES or DK.