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| Posted on 03-04-13 05:06:31 PM (last edited by FieryIce at 03-06-13 04:25:37 PM) |
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Edit: This was proven to be a hoax.
Apparently, at least... 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 3 MARCH 102, 평양 (PYONGYANG).
The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information. Today, a new chapter is written in the history of the movement, as well as the history of the internets.
A week ago we could reveal that The Pirate Bay was accessed via Norway and Catalonya. The move was to ensure that these countries and regions will get attention to the issues at hand. Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network.
This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information.
We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information. It's a country opening up and one thing is sure, they do not care about threats like others do. In that way, TPB and Korea might have a special bond. We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can. When someone is reaching out to make things better, it's also ones duty to grab their hand.
by Kim Jung-Bay
It's being referred to as ROK there but that might have been a translation mistake, apparently this is the host? http://bgp.he.net/AS131279
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | It was inevitable. North Korea is all about annoying America. TPB mostly annoys American corporations. Where is the one place on the planet that the US will basically never be able to stop an ISP? North Korea.
Hopefully this forces US copyright companies to realize that they can't win the battle with nothing but attacks. Unfortunately, all it will really do is cause a new war of IP blocking.
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What a strange world we live in.
North Korea would be the last place I'd associate with freedom of information.
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | Luckily, only the data will be stored there, so it's not like they will be in danger... hopefully.
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | Hm. Certainly is a technical affair that led to it looking like it was from North Korea. Fake is fake, though.
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| Posted on 03-06-13 02:13:40 PM (last edited by Stigandr at 03-06-13 02:14:01 PM) |
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| Since this isn't the first time we've gotten fake articles in here, maybe a mod could start adding tags to the end of thread titles for inaccurate information or joke articles? Not everyone actually reads the thread after all. |
