When The Pirate Bay ‘moved’ its operation to North Korea last month the site was heavily criticized for teaming up with such a dictatorial regime.
When The Pirate Bay ‘moved’ its operation In an attempt to right this wrong, the largest file-sharing site in the universe has teamed up with the only free nation left, the United States of America.
“Many of you rightfully bashed us for siding with a dictatorship,” begins The Pirate Bay’s announcement today.
“We want you to know that we have listened to your critique. So without further due, we hereby announce that we have moved our servers from the evil North Korea to the greatest fuckin nation in the entire world.”
According to The Pirate Bay, the U.S. Government helped them to secure their cloud hosting setup against any attacks from outside, North Korea in particular.
“We have worked closely with the awesome American Government to establish a strong military graded server park that will endure any nuclear attacks that Kim Jong Un and his evil allies will send at us.”
Of course The Freedom Bay will guarantee that people from non-free regimes can’t steer innocents in the wrong direction. To promote freedom the site will therefore remove all files uploaded from hostile territories, including France. American torrents on their turn will enjoy a speed boost.
“Along with this move to the greatest country in the universe, we will soon remove all torrents from North Korea, China, Iran, France and Islamistan. American torrents will be seeded with extra power, to ensure that you’ll get your American dose extra fast,” the Bay writes.
TorrentFreak has spoken to several people in the U.S. who are all reporting a significant speed increase, but The Pirate Bay informed us that the best is yet to come.
Sadly, for South African BitTorrent users some bad news just came in. Coinciding with The Pirate Bay’s move to the United States, TPB and several other BitTorrent sites are set to be blocked in the country.
MyBroadband reports that The South African Federation Against Copyright Theft (SAFACT) have convinced the authorities to implement a new policy directive which will outlaw the BitTorrent protocol, and require ISPs to block access to torrent sites.
In related freedom fighter news, the Aussie Pirate Party has received a takedown request after it issued a poster design that parodied YouTube’s “this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim” notification.
“We were under the impression that parody and satire would be respected, but rather than fight this we decided to comply,” Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer, Deputy Secretary of Pirate Party Australia comments on the action.
“This request is symptomatic of the absurdity of modern copyright maximalism. Time and time again copyright holders treat the public — which has generously allowed them to have these rights — with contempt.”
What a day…. and it’s not over yet.
