Pirate Bay Censorship Backfires as New Proxies Bloom

I may well have my history wrong, but this reminds me of that situation in Vietnam when solders were made to take a hill, then withdrew only for the hill to be retaken. Lots of people got hurt and nothing was gained.

Pirate Bay uses cloud servers hidden behind a proxy and a load balancer. The cloud servers are encrypted both in disk image and TCP traffic. The load balancer and the proxy are stateless machines that have no HDD. They keep no traces.

Add these front-end proxies hosted in various permitting jurisdictions and it's almost impossible to track or pull down. Good job of providing a technological-legal fix to a legal attack!

When these hand held computing devices become part of our minds, the ability to do what we please with our minds will be constantly under attack. There will be one school of thought, where all general purpose processing should be monitored by a central government agency, and another school of thought that what happens in my mind is strictly my business only. If you want to come search my mind, you'll have to get a warrant and probable cause.

We must fight for the ability to do anything we want on our computers, and to keep out anyone we don't like on our computers, or else we will wake up as slaves one day to a magnificent society.

Maybe it would be better if all humans were to become recruited as a hive of unthinking automations, like the borg, where we submit our will to others, and human potential to explore the universe increases.

I support the pirate bay because they support my personal freedom to think whatever I want to on my devices. If I am to be recruited as a component of a collective, that should be my choice, not the default only-choice.