The Pirate Bay now hosted in NK
 

This is a interesting plot twist. It's not April yet either..


https://thepiratebay.se/blog/229

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.

Are they making fibre optic lines out of bamboo now?

Fuck them, seen a documentary about them and they are arrogant as fuck.

Korea's broadband and mobile broadband piss on most of the Western world.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2333248,00.asp

For those who failed geography...

PYONGYANG = North Korea

Carry on.

yeah but SK, not NK :)

i hope that doesn't interfere with all the downloading I plan on doing with my VPN

Companies and the authorities will simply coninue to go after the TPB's end users. Haven't they nailed several downloaders in the past? I'm pretty sure I heard of some getting sued pretty hard.

http://ferringtonpost.com/wp-content...oto-by-2bp.jpg

TBP supports freedom and free speech - moves to North Korea :1orglaugh

You mean if we nuked North Korea today, we could take out not only Baby Il, but also Dennis Rodman, AND tbp...

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...re2n-4-web.jpg

Press the button Obama...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defa...910ck-0163.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...earfinger1.jpg
Figuratively speaking...actually I'm anti-nukes.

:stoned

ADG

we are suppose to be free :) dennis rodman can do that. huge plug for coca cola :2 cents:

Hmm... so they were forced to move to a nation that's at odds with entire world and hugely dependent on humanitarian assistance. I would guess, NK agreed to something like this because later it will end up being blocked/banned as a concession in negotiations for more food, medicine, oil and financial aid.

The worm in N Korea, lol.

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Probably North Korea wants the money from cam adverts on the piratebay :)

Looks like the Dictator brought a urine sample... :helpme

What a great goodwill ambassador for the USA - the Worm thinks he's in South Korea:

http://upload.enewsworld.net/News/Contents/33802079.jpg

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ADG

I thought south korea has one of the best networks in the world

doesnt surprise me people want to criticize him. media brain washes people. i dont give a fuck who you are id have to meet you face 2 face to see if i like you or not. im not going from sum media shit.

they are gonna host porn and stuff like that ???

North is the opposite.

can the fat guy buy an infrastructure to them ?

a good old fashioned ping to piratebay.org shows they are
somewhere in germany atm
...oh no did wrong tracert shows they are really in nk

update
no, i was not wrong
its fake, they are not in nk
they are in cambodia
https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north...ng-no-its-fake

This photo screams for a fashion designer, are they so poor they can't afford colors? :(

Can you pick the guy outta the crowd that's with Rodman? See if you can do it in less than 10 minutes...and......GO!

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As others have said, that's South Korea, not North Korea. Well played, Einstein:1orglaugh

This is certainly interesting, however let me tell you: It is fake.
TBP is not hosted in North Korea (at least not now).
Why can i say this? It is actually pretty easy if you have an understanding of BGP and BGP transit links.
Let?s look at a traceroute to ThePirateBay (194.71.107.15):
(Shorted to one ping)
Now we can start to make assumptions, in this case one is pretty easy:
Intelsat is US based, they are not allowed to deal with North Korea, directly or indirectly.
But let?s not get into legal issues here, but instead get some facts:
175.45.177.217 is undoubtly in North Korea, however just because it does respond to ping this does not mean anything.
If we trace directly to 175.45.177.217 from the same connection we can see an entirely different path:
(Some pings are out of the usual range due to UPCs/Aortas network technology)
Now this should give anyone a second thought as the route is ENTIRELY different and does not use a sat link, it goes from EU to US to China, to North Korea.
Now lets look closer at the AS131279, aka Ryugyong-dong, aka STAR-KP ? the sole ISP in North Korea, state owned of course.
AS131279 has one Upstream, AS4837 aka China Unicom which we see also in the real North Korean traceroute.
The AS also shows 2 other peers, AS22351 (Intelsat) and AS51040 (Piratpartiet Norge) ? This would mean North Korea DOES provide connectivity to The Pirate Bay, right?
No.
Anyone can hijack an AS number and not cause any issues for the real user ? In this case The Pirate Bay set up a Sat dish in Phenom Penh, Cambodia ? Intelsat gives them a BGP session there.
The peer net for BGP handoff is 175.45.177.217/30, .216 is Intelsats side and .217 is The Pirate Bay?s.
One can use ANY IP they wish for these handoffs, internal, their own, ?hijacked? ? In this case The Pirate Bay ?hijacked? 2 IPs from the North Korean network which does not matter for them as this is only acessible from their side, not from the internet.
TBP then injected AS131279 as peer in the upstream table ? so it does not look like this:
AS22351 ? AS51040
But instead:
AS22351 ? AS131279 ? AS51040
This is possible because either Intelsat does not filter BGP announcements (unlikely) or TBP wrote a fake LOA for this AS (likely).
Now as we traceroute the TBP IP we see the /30 subnet used for the handoff in Phenom Penh, which is why TPB says it is in North Korea ? The ICMP (ping) reply from the IP makes it seem legit but does actually come from and entirely different network (aka the real Star-KP network).
(Theres some more but i spare you that as it is pretty technological ? for example that AS131279 does not hand over AS51040 routes to AS4737).
Conclusion:
While it is one of the more advanced fake routings it is still pretty lame, a single drop to AS4737 (like a server in China with a BGP session) and it would look much more real, and much harder to detect.
I cannot certainly say where TPB is hosted now, but it must be Asia and it seems to be Phenom Penh, Cambodia as the ICMP replies after it are only minimal higher than there.
So far so good.

Let us know if you catch a break detective. :thumbsup

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Why dont you link to the source where you copied the text from?

https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north...ng-no-its-fake

The investigator becomes the investigated!!!

Ok so really they spoofed it to look like hosted in North Korea but this is fake, as really hosted in Germany (https://www.rrbone.net/imprint.de.html ?) or other powerfully connected place.

We are all equal, comrade ...

Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that NK has effectively no internet connectivity. Additionally, nobody in NK has probably even heard of the TPB. If anyone in the NK Government had heard of TPB, they wouldn't give a single shit about it either way, because... why would they? Hell, even torrent users with any clue don't.

You don't need a bunch of fucking traceroutes to demonstrate that, dipshits.

You are such a fucking MORON!
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We hope that yesterdays little hack proved that we know the internet better than our enemies
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