Pirate Bay Now Running Out of North Korea [???]
March 4th, 2013Update: Probably Still in Europe
This post purports to explain what’s happening. You’ll need more propellers in your beanie than I have in mine if you plan on understanding this:
The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake. (P2)
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Still Routes Through Europe
I’m not really sure what’s going on here.
nslookup shows them in Germany:
Domain: piratebay.se
IP Address: 194.71.107.15
ISP: Resilans AB
Organization: The Pirate Bay
But if you tracert piratebay.se, the last hop that responds to ICMP is here:
IP Address: 175.45.177.217
ISP: Ryugyong-dong
And that’s North Korea.
So, I don’t know what to make of it.
Ok, guys, where are they?
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For the luLz:
Posted Y-day 18:45 by Kim Jung-Bay.
Via: Pirate Bay:
PRESS RELEASE, NEW PROVIDER FOR TPB
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 3 MARCH 102, ?? (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.
