[liberationtech] Pirate Bay turns to drones

[Andrew Lewis]

Yes, telecomix is looking at drones, and really the proposal by TPB is outlandish to current drone builders/operators, but most of the limitations seem to be artificially limited technical issues that no one has thought past due to limitations by US/UK/EU regulations. If you disregard these rules, long range drones are well within the realm of possibility. I think an open source drone program is possible, if people are willing to commit the resources and accept the overall development costs. 

Andrew Lewis
Twitter: ThePunkbob 

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On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:53 PM, KheOps <kheops at ceops.eu> wrote:

> Indeed, we're working on drones to film and livestream stuff in hostile
> environment such as Syria :) Will keep you posted if something concrete
> is somehow produced :)
> 
> On 03/23/2012 04:57 PM, David Johnson wrote:
>> It sounded ridiculous, but ideas can come from jokes.
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM, KheOps <kheops at ceops.eu
>> <mailto:kheops at ceops.eu>> wrote:
>> 
>>    This is a joke - at least according to tetsu0, one of the TPB folks :)
>> 
>>    On 03/23/2012 04:44 PM, David Johnson wrote:
>>> http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210
>>> 
>>> 
>>>      /TPB LOSS/
>>> 
>>> /We were down a few hours earlier today. There's no need to worry, we
>>> haven't been raided this time. We're only upgrading stuff since we're
>>> still growing./
>>> 
>>> /One of the technical things we always optimize is where to put our
>>> front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic to a
>>> secret location. We have now decided to try to build something
>>> extraordinary./
>>> 
>>> /With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap
>>    radio
>>> equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi
>>> <http://www.raspberrypi.org/>, we're going to experiment with sending
>>> out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air.
>>> This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in
>>    order
>>> to shut down the system. A real act of war./
>>> 
>>> /We're just starting so we haven't figured everything out yet. But we
>>> can't limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore.
>>    These Low
>>> Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern
>>> radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km
>>    away. For
>>> the proxy system we're building, that's more than enough./
>>> 
>>> /But when time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy,
>>    being true
>>> to our slogan of being the galaxy's most resilient system. And all of
>>> the parts we'll use to build //that system on will be downloadable./
>>> 
>>> 
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