The Pirate Bay shifts HQ to Sinai
p2pnet news | P2P:- “Due to the new copyright legislation that are going to take effect from today we had to move all of the system outside of Europe.”
That’s on The Pirate Bay blog.
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We decided to move to the desert of Sinai in Egypt since we feel that we’ll be safe there. Tiamo has already got himself a permanent place to live and will reside in Sinai from now.
Those of you who need to get in contact with him can use the contact page.
In Sinai we’ve set up the systems with three redundant fibre links.
Besides local connectivity in Egypt we also have connectivity to Saudi-Arabia and Israel.
Jordan is quite close and we hope to install a link there as well as soon as our budget will reach that level. This way we’re actually hosted in Asia as well as Africa.
More updates on this will come later today, hopefully.
Everything will be the same as before, we will have slightly higher latency for European and American visitors.
A special note to Ifpi: Moses walked in the desert of Sinai for 40 years. Our servers will be active for at least another 40 as well.
We can see the headlines now:
New Middle East Crisis!
Hollywood calls in US Marines!
Bush calls TPB, “Weapons of Mess Destruction.”
“Unfortunately for you the RIAA has just announced a new camel and scimitar based wing of their copyright enforcement effort,” says one comment poster. “I’d watch out.”
“Yay, that just makes it closer to Australia! although last years news was better North Korea would have been even closer,” says another. “Though you better watch out for all those cut fiber cables, I hear the MPAA is already planning to drag another anchor through them.”
Rumour has it Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström are recording a song called Sons of the Desert for a vinyl release on their new TPB label.
blog – Swedens copyright laws changes from today, April 1, 2008
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April 1st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Its april the 1st today
April 1st, 2008 at 7:58 am
^^ Really?
April 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am
lol
April 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
lol
this might be a april fools joke, but its funny whether its true or not
April 1st, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Heh, I’ve been reading these on different sites all day, and all I want to know is…Why is there always a personality type that feels the need to let us know that it is indeed the first of april, and that these are jokes?
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 am
I suppose that would be because, even though it’s clearly a joke when on Pirate Bay’s site, when the joke gets copied by a dozen bloggers you can’t help but think they got suckered.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
lol i agree with LJS