Well, apparently, The PirateBay team is planning on placing it’s main server into space, as much as 50kms above land. With SOPA, PIPA and many other US govt. rules harming and shutting down many popular websites accusing them of piracy, TPB has come up with this unique idea.
According to them, though, this is nothing new. TPB was down for a while yesterday, and some thought that it had got something to do with the CIA or FBI. They have made a post clearing it out that the website was down only and only because they upgraded some server hardware in that period of time.
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We were down a few hours earlier today. There’s no need to worry, we haven’t been raided this time. We’re only upgrading stuff since we’re still growing.
One of the technical things we always optimize is where to put our front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic to a secret location. We have now decided to try to build something extraordinary.
With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.
We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.
But when time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy, being true to our slogan of being the galaxy’s most resilient system. And all of the parts we’ll use to build that system on will be downloadable.
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Source and More Info Here;
http://smartphonegeeks.in/2012/03/thepiratebay-to-move-to-the-space/