Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof

<p><pre><code> and even in the event they [cloud providers] found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users. </code></pre> The encryption key that is providing disk encryption on the VM instances would be accessible to the VM host. The VM host could also directly access the memory of the VM instances to read the disk cache, etc.

Isn't it enough to take down the DNS servers to make TPB unusable for sharing (at least to add new torrents) ?<p>Achieving fault tolerance using a few cloud providers is nice (and expensive) but they're still far from raid proof (all it takes is some coordination from police in multiple countries).

They have to do it like this:<p>- emule like dht.<p>- keep a cache of 1000 of ips that had trustworthy content in different ip neighbourhoods.<p>- provide a pub-sub of new content + hot/top files.<p>- seed one-to-download one file. Host encrypted content, freenet style to have faster speeds on other files. Never allowing a file to go seedless.<p>- the software could be provided as a chrome+firefox sandboxed addon or something like that.<p>Go hackers go.

Something that could be "funny", if that governments, when they don't understand something, they just call it outlaw/illegal, as they almost did for P2P. That's not because someone make a bad use of something that the whole thing must be considered as dangerous. How long before the "cloud" is declared illegal by governments ? :)

Any more info on the encrypted VMs and how they work ?<p>Do they use TrueCrypt volumes ? What are the alternatives ?

So we can expect Cloud Computing Regulations to be framed later this year?

Long Live The Pirate Bay - An icon of revolution and internet freedom!

how do they manage their databases, this would be interesting if the system is truely distributed

Nice article, I absolutely agree!

Unless they raid the cloud...?

It's like robin hood taking from the rich and giving to the poor, his motives are pure, depending on how you look at it, and robin hood can continue this as long as the governing body who wants him dead is inept at catching him. The pirate bay, like robin hood, cannot live forever. SOME of us will only be stronger than ALL of us for brief moments in history. The only way TPB is to survive is for it to make good on its invisibility promise and make both the users and and distributors invisible to those who want it dead. There needs to be a creative mechanism to render the service invisible to those who disagree with its existence, and to render it visible to those who crave data.<p>It won't matter that TPB is distributed, clouded, encrypted, PTP, or whatever. When the governments are successful in getting SOPA, ACTA or whatever through congress, the ISP's and companies like Google and Apple are going to be made responsible for cooking into their devices preventions for unauthorized copying and unauthorized distribution of 3d schematics for weapons that pass through their ISP's or their hardware. As elite as TPB thinks they are, a few elite hackers can't fight an army of mediocre hackers.<p>An important factor in TPB living forever is preserving its image in the hearts and minds of ALL hackers everywhere, worldwide, collectively we can outsmart those who wish to catch us, a small group of us will eventually be defeated, as all robin hoods must be. We have to have the hackers on the ground floor who wish TPB to live forever inside Google, Comcast, Apple, HP, MPAA, RIAA, and everywhere else. The battle for control what you can think, what you can do inside the comfort of your own mind is under attack. The battle begins here, with the ownership of what can take place in your computer. Soon these computers will be our minds, and the governments will rule over the thoughts that take place inside them. We will wake up as directive following slaves on the land our fathers conquered. We have to have a 10 and a 50 year plan.