[liberationtech] The Pirate Bay moving to North Korea, really ?

Andrew Lewis me at andrewlew.is
Tue Mar 5 03:56:20 PST 2013


I have no idea where they are physically located, but they seem to be getting inbound transit via AMS-IX, so I suspect that they are in Amsterdam, and most likely the ISP has no idea.


On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:53 AM, Alejandro Fernandez <skoria at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not very clued in to the specifics but IMO moving to catalunya is
> a bad idea. The sinde law is now up for revision and being "hardened".
> I suspect future wikileaks cables would show proof that the US is
> still pushing this kind of thing in Spain. Here is some news in
> spanish about this
> http://www.adslzone.net/article10801-el-gobierno-endurecera-la-ley-sinde-pero-excluira-a-determinados-portales-como-google.html
> 
> If anyone can correct me on this please do!
> 
> Ale
> 
> On 5 March 2013 11:54, Olivier Tesquet <olivier.tesquet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting to see it intervenes just a week after TPB moved from Sweden to
>> Norway and Catalunya, after being legally threatened :
>> 
>> http://press.piratpartiet.se/2013/02/26/the-swedish-pirate-partys-answer-to-the-rights-alliances-demands-2/
>> 
>> 
>> 2013/3/5 Julien Rabier <taziden at flexiden.org>
>>> 
>>> Le 05 mars - 11:30, Olivier Tesquet a écrit :
>>>> 2013/3/5 Amin Sabeti <aminsabeti at gmail.com>
>>>> 
>>>>> See the update 3:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/05/evidence-the-pirate-bay-move-to-north-korea-was-a-prank-in-understandable-terms/
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks Amin, I hadn't see it. My question would duplicate Falkvinge's
>>>> one :
>>>> How do you fake a traceroute to this degree ? And why now ?
>>> 
>>> Seems like they played with BGP :
>>> https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake-p2
>>> 
>>> Julien
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