Pirate Bay moves to cloud based servers

[Neo]

The Pirate Bay has hit on a down-to-earth, but still Cloud-based plan to outwit the authorities. Instead of operating on proxy servers on flying drones, as it suggested back in March, the controversial BitTorrent website will transfer most of its operation to cloud providers.

The move, the site hopes, will make the file-sharing operation virtually invulnerable to future police raids. "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 said in an interview with TorrentFreak.

"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."

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"If the police decide to raid us again there are no servers to take, just a transit router," said The Pirate Bay. "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."



More here: The Pirate Bay sails away into the cloud by virtualising its servers - Techworld.com

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^Neat

[inthaiguy]

Does anyone know what kind of tricks they are pulling to actually stay online? Surely after the USS is no longer shy about seizing domains, they would just grab that one, no?

If you haven't seen the pirate bay documentary - TBP AFK, get it.

[klong toey]

Just changed name in the UK so my I S P no longer blocks it.
Not had a problem since then.

[tuferguson]

Just changed name in the UK so my I S P no longer blocks it.
Not had a problem since then.

to promo bay?

inthaiguy - i dont know if its the same one but bbc4 had a documentary about it this week, it was the 2 years or so covering the trial. funny how one guy had a wife in laos and another had a gf in cambo!

when he married the laos girl the local official said it was a tradition to pay for the marriage licence - about $6000 US !!!!