“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink

This patch brings back good memories.<p>Memories when I was a child and I had to run various "patches" or "resident programs" to run games.<p>Oddly enough they were phrased similarly and shared that same, excessive, punctuation.<p>Will the next Pirate Bay patch feature an intro?

Clever name, but all it does is edit a hosts file. Not sure why this is so highly rated on HN.

if anyone is interested i wrote a python script a few years ago that is similar (from the examples it looks like i was annoyed by wikileaks being blocked) - it automates the patching of your hosts file and adds some extra metadata. <a href="https://github.com/andrewcooke/GhettoNet" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/andrewcooke/GhettoNet</a>

<a href="http://elite.so/tpp/proxy.txt" rel="nofollow">http://elite.so/tpp/proxy.txt</a> URL used by the script to get the IP.

As do Google Cache links, I hear.

haha whats next? "Turn off your virus check, it's a false positive!!!!"

If it auto-updates, maybe this can be a early step towards a more resilient DNS system that route around damage.