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The Pirate Bay Finds Permanent Home

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sun Apr 01, 2007 09:39 AM
from the sphere-of-invulnerability-rank-one dept.
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C4st13v4n14 writes "The Pirate Bay finally gets permanent hosting and immunity against foreign copyright holders." No clue how long this latest arrangement will hold out, or if copyright holders will be able to touch them while they are hosted in their new location. I wonder what the deal looked like to get this done. Strange bedfellows indeed.
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  • Another great way to hide Pirate Bay... pull the iron curtain over it. And after that poorly crafted joke, I'm waiting for the next article to be something along the lines of "RIAA Chairman caught with 65,000 downloaded music albums -- music community in uproar"
    • We still have 10 or so hours to go....

    • I'm waiting for the next article to be something along the lines of "RIAA Chairman caught with 65,000 downloaded music albums -- music community in uproar"
      Indeed! They should be sharing like everyone else.
    • ...and the only reason that they weren't found out yet is that they were (greedy, selfish bastards that they are) leeching only without offering any upload.

  • I know it's a joke but still.. (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Personally I wouldn't put it past them.

    Also, this was on digg a while earlier.

  • Obligatory joke (Score:5, Funny)

    by broothal (186066) <christian@fabel.dk> on Sunday April 01 2007, @09:46AM (#18566649) Homepage Journal
    In north Korea, april fools you!

  • In other news from Europe... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Budenny (888916) on Sunday April 01 2007, @09:48AM (#18566663)
    The Independent reported the exciting discovery of a viagra like substance in East European heather flowers. Garden Centres across the UK are being besieged by men of all ages.....

    http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/ar ticle2411405.ece [independent.co.uk]
  • Is this for real? If it is, it makes me a little queasy. Silly hairdos and bizarre obsessions aside, Kim Jong-Il is a tyrant whose power rests on the backs of millions of underfed, opressed people. And while a free bandwidth arrangement is one thing, accepting an offer of citizenship...! Sorry, but copyright infringement is not a noble cause, and the people who run The Pirate Bay are not champions of global freedom. I hope this arrangement brings that home to people.

  • SlashRating (Score:4, Funny)

    by DaveM753 (844913) on Sunday April 01 2007, @09:50AM (#18566671) Homepage
    Jenny, I got you number on the wall.

  • Dear World (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jb.hl.com (782137) <`ten.niwdlab-eoj' `ta' `eoj'> on Sunday April 01 2007, @09:56AM (#18566717) Homepage Journal
    Dear World,

    Please make your April Fools more funny. Right now a global nuclear holocaust would raise more chuckles. (Luckily, we're inching closer to that every day, so we haven't got long to wait for some laughs.)

    Love,
    jb.hl.com
    • I really miss the OMG PONIES!!1one. It got so many people mad that it will be impossible to live up to. And yes today has been the worst April fool's day ever.
      • I would like to point you to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], which has a great April Fools frontpage. The best part is that it is all true!

        • I would like to point you to Wikipedia, which has a great April Fools frontpage. The best part is that it is all true!
          A true story on Wikipedia!1!???! - by god, it must be April Fools Day!!!1 That's more unlikely than Duke Nukem Forever being released today.
  • The future of freedom is found in communism!

    And if everything fails and the mafiaa comes knocking, they can now also create a devastating EMP easily to destroy any incriminating data.
    • Well I don't know about freedom, but few things are more communist in nature than filesharing. Some people kick in more than others, everyone takes a bit out, and we all end up with the same stuff. It would be a perfect match.
  • If the only stuff you read is US propoganda, you'd think that Kim Jong Il is some kind of tyrant.

      What we don't know here in the west - because our massive corporate overlords don't want us to know it! - is that Kim Jong Il has long been a champion of freedom of expression and fundamnental human rights, not only in the DPRK, but on the world stage. Given his principled belief in freedom of expression (a right which, if universally protected on principle, obviously renders copyright moot in a digital era) it's no surprise that he would intervene to ensure that the Pirate Bay could stay in operation.

      Just because the guy's funny looking and kinda weird, we allow this Thomas Jefferson of the far east to be demonized in all of our media. As Nerds, you'd think we could look past his obsession with campy movies, use of hair gel, and love of inter-racial threeways - after all, we're just as quirky, or we wouldn't be on slashdot. It's a real shame how we perpetrate these kinds of stereotypes against this stalwart champion of liberty.

     

  • Now the RIAA will be developing nukes (Score:3, Interesting)

    by John Jorsett (171560) on Sunday April 01 2007, @10:58AM (#18567029)
    Thanks a lot, Pirate Bay!
  • I'm sure it will help clear up any lingering Kim Jong-Il-will towards the North Koreans by copyright violators.
  • And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.

  • why did kim go for it? (Score:3, Funny)

    by OiToTheWorld (1014079) on Sunday April 01 2007, @12:29PM (#18567547)
    Because hes so ronrery hes so ronery So ronery So ronery and sadry arone There's no one Just me onry Sitting on his rittle throne He works very hard and make up great prans But nobody ristens, no one understands Seems that no one takes him serirousry And so hes ronery A little ronery Poor rittre him There's nobody he can rerate to Feer rike a bird in a cage It's kinda sihry But not rearry Because it's fihring his body with rage he works rearry hard to stay nice and fit But none of the women seem to give a shit When he rures the world maybe they'rr notice me But untir then hell just be ronery Rittre ronery, poor rittre me hes so ronery hes so ronery...

  • Fuck this shit (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Can we please have at least one serious story today? If I wanted to read bullshit, I'd read either Fark or Microsoft blogs.

    OMG Ponies!!! was awfully cute this year, but today, there are only a couple of actual news stories and the Slashrating gag.

    Lame, lame, lame.
  • ...welcome the new north Korean overlords.

    OK, OK, the fact of the matter is:
    1. If you seed material critical of N.K., you will not get a phone call from RIAA, you will now get polonium in your tea.
    *but*
    2. At the local niteclub in Pyongyang 1 Swedish krone will buy you the entire bar, and with another krone, you can rent the entire hotel you stay in. The girls are pretty, and you will be the hottest guy in town.
  • April Fools Day jokes just get worse and worse...

  • In other news (Score:3, Informative)

    by Master of Transhuman (597628) on Sunday April 01 2007, @06:14PM (#18569279) Homepage
    President Bush today announced airstrikes against the North Korean Embassy would be conducted over the next week.

    Bush bypassed Congressional approval for this action by using RIAA pilots who volunteered for the mission.

    House Leader Nancy Pelosi made a statement saying she did not disapprove of this military action because it benefited the media industry in her state - and besides, AIPAC didn't complain either, so she assumed it was all right.

  • meh (Score:3, Insightful)

    by smoker2 (750216) on Monday April 02 2007, @03:26AM (#18571225) Homepage Journal
    You do realise that traditionally, Aprils fools jokes have to be played by 12.00 midday, otherwise the joke is on you !
    fuckwits.

    • Re: (Score:2, Offtopic)

      by saskboy (600063)
      "by the way, whatever happened to Kuro5hin.org?"

      They got hosting space in Iran instead. Axis of Evil Hosting has very little downtime, until the States invade.
      • Something got modded offtopic on April Fools Day?! This is incredible! This is insightful! This is informative!
    • What? Kim Yong Ill watches movies in the buff? Yeah, I can imagine what kind of movies...
    • I just hope he doesn't get his hands on a translated copy of Team America: World Police.

      I do.
    • That is not as strange as you think - I heard that in Mogadishu, they were showing pirate screenings of "Black Hawk Down" in a parking lot when it first came out a few years ago, only a block from where the events actually happened. Except the Somalians were cheering every time a US soldier died...

      • Except the Somalians were cheering every time a US soldier died...

        18 US KIAs. 1,000 Somalian KIAs. 55 to 1 kill ratio. I wouldn't be cheering if I was them.

        • The 1000 KIA were heavily armed well-equipped troops? If not then your idiotic pissing contest has no meaning.

            • But it wasn't that heavily skewed against them(somalians), I think.

              Well, they had rifles, RPGs and sheer numbers. We had air power, training, communications and technology.

              I'm kinda surprised that he took my comment as a pissing contest. I was just making the observation that I wouldn't find a lot to be cheerful about in that movie if I was a Somali. Is there anything in "Tora, Tora, Tora" to be cheerful about if you are an American?

    • This really isn't that surprising to me - Kim Jong-Il is a noted movie buff, so it makes perfect sense that the Pirate Bay would relocate there. I just hope he doesn't get his hands on a translated copy of Team America: World Police.
      Fuck yeah!

    • it makes most of my favourite (living in the UK now) site bloody useless

      Yeah, normally Slashdot is useful--nay, indispensible--to my daily work.

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