I think we’ve all had our fill of The Pirate Bay stories, but here’s one more in the interest of killing five minutes. The site moved its servers from Sweden to Ukraine last week, and rather than have its servers being stored in some random server farm, they’re being stored in a former NATO nuclear bunker. So we think, at least.
Yup, so TPB’s new ISP, CyberBunker, has provided the site with access to a former NATO bunker that can withstand a nuclear attack, as well as Electromagnetic Pulses. That way The Man can’t interfere with your ability to grab that latest DVD rip you have your heart set on.
What’s not known, however, is whether or not the actual servers are inside said bunker. Or maybe they’re in a different bunker, or maybe they’re just somewhere else where nobody can find them.
And interestingly enough, the crazy Dutch anti-piracy organization, BREIN, did attempt to stop the move to Ukraine, but CyberBunker, after a bit of hemming and hawing, refused to bow to the pressure.
All is right in the world.
I’m starting to believe that TPB in fact will never go away, like they said all along. Even after TPB people were convicted and all that, it’s still going. Maybe not as strong as it was, but little bits of news like this just makes you keep the faith a little bit longer.
If they can’t find them, does that mean they just stay up forever?
NATO bunker in the Ukraine? Surely you mean a Warsaw Pact bunker?
Both the company CyberBunker and their bunker is located in the Netherlands AFAIK.
Did you actually think that NATO had a bunker in Ukraine? A former part of the Soviet union. I think not. :)
TorrentFreak has more info.
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-relocates-to-a-nuclear-bunker-091006/
I think the article above erroneously indicated that the bunker was in the Ukraine.
They did relocate to Ukraine, but then ended up moving to a NATO bunker, aka Cyberbunker. It is in the Netherlands, but governed by separate laws, read here: http://www.republic-cyberbunker.org/
Either way it looks like the companies with interests in shutting it down are shit out of luck. F the police!
Guess what, same picture on govnoc.com (just let them revolve for a while and you’ll see. It’s picture number 12)
Correct. Govnoc.com=Cyberbunker.com
It’s at
Zomerweg 0
4481 BX Kloetinge
and owned by the Wasteland foundation
Its like that movie, the Boat that Rocked. This is pirate radio of 2009! Except its not radio on a boat. Its filesharing, in a bunker!