The Pirate Bay Finds Permanent Home

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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.

On that note...

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"

I know it's a joke but still..

Personally I wouldn't put it past them.

Also, this was on digg a while earlier.

Obligatory joke

In north Korea, april fools you!

Unsurprising

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.

In other news from Europe...

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]

Ewww

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.

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Jenny, I got you number on the wall.

Re:SlashRating

I should be modded insightful for no reason.

Re:SlashRating

Screw him over, and mod him informative instead!

I'm confused

I think that it's a trap. [itsatrap.net]

Dear World

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

nice

If we only HAD a North Korean embassy in Sweden :P

I knew it!

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.

Not really a surprise

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.

 

"Slash Dot Tit!"

Anyone else notice those new boxes in the top left of stories... and the bottom link spells out "slash dot tit!" if you put some spaces in? Would that therefore be represented as /.(*)? :P

Now the RIAA will be developing nukes

Thanks a lot, Pirate Bay!

Great move

I'm sure it will help clear up any lingering Kim Jong-Il-will towards the North Koreans by copyright violators.

Data center

How big of a bomb can this data-center withstand? Is it buried underground? In a bunker? Tucked into a mountain somewhere?

I *hate* april 1st.

Seriously, it makes most of my favourite (living in the UK now) site bloody useless with all the "gags". It's funny when you're 12 (well, the first time anyways), less so now.

I know Kim Jong Il and...

This may be hard to believe, but I know Kim Jong Il. Jong (I affectionately call him 'the Jonger' and I became friends a long time ago, when we attended the same summer camp in Maine. We would go on panty raids at the girls camp across the lake, and play all sorts of pranks on the camp counselors.

Anyways, he always was quite the advocate of free speech rights, and said if he ever had the chance he would go the extra mile to fight for people's rights.

I am glad to see that he finally has had the chance to fulfill his dream, no...destiny!

Hey Jong-man, if you're reading this -- Thanks for your contribution!!

And In Other News

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.

Not as good this year

Bring back the ponies!

why did kim go for it?

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

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.

I for one..

...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.

Horrible

April Fools Day jokes just get worse and worse...

In other news

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

You do realise that traditionally, Aprils fools jokes have to be played by 12.00 midday, otherwise the joke is on you !
fuckwits.

Re:Paging all mods!

I'd mod you overrated if I had mod points.

Re:I just realized...

"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.