The Pirate Bay has its own definition on “cloud computing.” The biggest BitTorrent site in the world has planned to put a number of their servers on the sky of Sweden to dodge the same situation suffered by its comrade, Megaupload.
The Pirate Bay on its Sunday blog post talked about the “Low Orbit Server Stations.” It is a plan to place the servers of the site inside an aircraft to be hovered on the sky. The aircraft is planned to be equipped with a GPS and small computers like Raspberry Pi.
Mr Spock as the administrator of the site said the servers will come with “a $35 micro computer the size of a thumb drive that includes a WiFi and SD card slot for storage.” The Pirate Bay administrators can control the servers from their base, while it will be difficult for the law to destroy it.
The Pirate Bay strongly disagrees with the copyright laws imposed by the US government. It said the laws do not apply in Sweden. In 2011, the site placed several servers in some caves in a Sweden mountain.
The site said despite the espionage, raids and death threats they are still there to provide service. In fact, the current obstacles made them tougher than ever.
Here is the blog post from the Pirate Bay:
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.
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