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Mythos
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Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof
#17047516 - 10/17/12 10:51 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world’s most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure.
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The Pirate Bay is loved by millions of file-sharers but is also a thorn in the side of the entertainment industries.
The latter group continues to push authorities to take action against the site. The Pirate Bay was raided back in 2006 and there are rumors that the police might try again in the near future.
The Pirate Bay is not oblivious to this looming threat. They have backups in place and are shielding the true location of their servers. Nevertheless, should the site lose all its servers it might take a while to get back online.
This is one of the reasons why The Pirate Bay decided to move the site into the cloud yesterday. The switch resulted in five minutes downtime and was hardly noticed by the public, but it’s a big change for the infamous BitTorrent site.
Hosting in the cloud also makes the site easier to scale, it reduces downtime, and is also cheaper.
“Moving to the cloud lets TPB move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime. All the servers don’t even have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent,” The Pirate Bay told TorrentFreak.
The Pirate Bay is currently hosted at cloud hosting companies in two countries where they run several Virtual Machine (VM) instances.
“Running on VMs cuts down operation costs and complexity. For example, we never need anyone to do hands-on work like earlier this month when we were down for two days because someone had to fix a broken power distribution unit,” The Pirate Bay says.
The setup also makes it possible for the BitTorrent site to take their business elsewhere without too much hassle.
“If one cloud-provider cuts us off, goes offline or goes bankrupt, we can just buy new virtual servers from the next provider. Then we only have to upload the VM-images and reconfigure the load-balancer to get the site up and running again.”
While most of Pirate Bay’s former servers are now obsolete, not everything was moved to the cloud.
The load balancer and transit-routers are still owned and operated by The Pirate Bay, which allows the site to hide the location of the cloud provider. It also helps to secure the privacy of the site’s users.
The hosting providers have no idea that they’re hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users.
“All communication with users goes through TPB’s load balancer, which is a disk-less server with all the configuration in RAM. The load balancer is not in the same country as the transit-router or the cloud servers,” The Pirate Bay told us.
“The communication between the load balancer and the virtual servers is encrypted. So even if a cloud provider found out they’re running TPB, they can’t look at the content of user traffic or user’s IP-addresses.”
In addition The Pirate Bay now believes it’s more raid proof.
The worst case scenario is that The Pirate Bay loses both its transit router and its load balancer. All the important data is backed up externally on VMs that can be re-installed at cloud hosting providers anywhere in the world.
“If the police decide to raid us again there are no servers to take, just a transit router. If they follow the trail to the next country and find the load balancer, there is just a disk-less server there. In case they find out where the cloud provider is, all they can get are encrypted disk-images,” The Pirate Bay says.
“They have to be quick about it too, if the servers have been out of communication with the load balancer for 8 hours they automatically shut down. When the servers are booted up, access is only granted to those who have the encryption password,” they add.
For Pirate Bay users the move to the cloud doesn’t change much though. If anything, they will notice significantly less downtime.
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Mythos
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: Mythos] 1
#17047529 - 10/17/12 10:53 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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"So, first we ditched the trackers. Then we got rid of the torrents. Now? Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud. The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All, surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real. If there is data, there is The Pirate Bay. Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours. All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing. The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us. Adapt or be forever forgotten beneath the veils of maya." //Yours truly.
I love the internet.
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Cybernetic
Technological Hallucination


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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: Mythos]
#17047563 - 10/17/12 11:00 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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"So, first we ditched the trackers. Then we got rid of the torrents. Now? Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud. The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All, surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real. If there is data, there is The Pirate Bay. Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours. All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing. The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us. Adapt or be forever forgotten beneath the veils of maya." //Yours truly.
I love the internet. 
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: Cybernetic]
#17047617 - 10/17/12 11:11 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mythos said:
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"So, first we ditched the trackers. Then we got rid of the torrents. Now? Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud. The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All, surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real. If there is data, there is The Pirate Bay. Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours. All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing. The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us. Adapt or be forever forgotten beneath the veils of maya." //Yours truly.
I love the internet. 
-------------------- / / / / / / / LISTEN TO MY MUSIC: E X E D / / / / / / / The universe gives no fucks. And takes no fucks. May His Circuits Ever Function
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: The_Ghost]
#17047757 - 10/17/12 11:37 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yay for the Bay!
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Shroomacabra
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: JohnnieYen]
#17047878 - 10/17/12 12:00 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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meh, the internet is a love/hate thing for me, but Yay TPB FTW!
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mushroom_sandwich
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: Shroomacabra]
#17047932 - 10/17/12 12:12 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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awesome news!
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Bushmills
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: mushroom_sandwich]
#17048118 - 10/17/12 12:39 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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pirate bay needs more ebooks. Losing demonoid really sucked as there were sooo many ebooks uploaded there
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: Bushmills]
#17048150 - 10/17/12 12:44 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Bushmills said: pirate bay needs more ebooks.
Upload them then. Nearly everything I download I seed for at least a couple months after.
For it is in giving that we receive.
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OMGitsBigCheeze
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: SoreSpore]
#17048191 - 10/17/12 12:52 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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FUCK THOSE GREEDY CORPORATE BASTARDS!!
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The_Ghost
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: SoreSpore]
#17048199 - 10/17/12 12:53 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Bushmills said: pirate bay needs more ebooks.
Upload them then. Nearly everything I download I seed for at least a couple months after.
For it is in giving that we receive.
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: The_Ghost]
#17048228 - 10/17/12 12:56 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is this Apollonius of Tyana or Jesus?
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blujay
pass it b*ch!



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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: The_Ghost]
#17048277 - 10/17/12 01:03 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am actually researching building an autonomous P2P malware and I have a lot of the basics down; someday I would like to make malware that propagates songs illegally all on it's own. Once you have that it becomes difficult to take someone to court for infringement because there isn't a way to prove their computer didn't autonomously download the file.
it would use a slow-trickle approach to avoid impacting the unwitting user's experience, and it would search the hard drive of a computer it's on for an MP3 file which would then be seeded to the rest of the botnet and downloaded, then dumped into a random folder. So if you're infected you just start having random MP3 files all over the place. Assuming that user has also been downloaded illegal songs, but not entire albums- doing it one at a time, it would become hard to differentiate. You could even program it to look for folders when the computer isn't being used and flag folders with shit-loads of MP3's as it's download directory.
Of course only unprotected hosts could be hit with this, I wouldn't be building it to be impossible to remove (nor would I know where to start doing that) - but I can definitely write an embedded video game, android / facebook app, toolbar - that just does a little more than it says it does. Then all the user has to do is claim ignorance, and you just make trojan horse after trojan horse running it so it becomes really difficult to keep up with and say, well, everybody knows about that so you're at fault and can't use that argument; because the developer can just paste it into a new junkware every week.
It's all only theory which is why I can talk about it; but from everything I have studied so far it should be perfectly feasible to undermine the now-defunct copyright laws in this way.
Artists have rights, those rights don't encompass controlling our culture outright. I admire what the people maintaining TPB have managed, it's been a herculean task over the years to keep that database brazenly available. For the uninitiated, there are hundreds of lists just like TPB that get by by being members-invites-only and staying out of sight; the TPB isn't gaining anything by doing what it does for you guys- they are practically speaking a willful dissent protest project.
I have found most people who support the current IP laws are ignorant of the level of abuse prosecutors have been applying to the victims of these cases- we're talking life in debt and prison time for downloading music you hear on the radio for free anyway, and if you recorded it from there nobody would ever bat an eyelash at you.
Edited by blujay (10/17/12 01:13 PM)
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The_Ghost
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: SoreSpore]
#17048337 - 10/17/12 01:11 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is this Apollonius of Tyana or Jesus?
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danielx
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Re: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof [Re: blujay]
#17048426 - 10/17/12 01:25 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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sounds unethical
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