$ traceroute thepiratebay.se
traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
[snip my ISP]
7 ix-11-3-0-0.tcore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net (66.198.154.17) 28.545 ms ix-7-3-1-0.tcore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net (206.82.139.53) 30.736 ms ix-3-2-0-0.tcore2.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net (216.6.87.49) 28.143 ms
8 if-2-2.tcore2.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net (216.6.87.1) 28.614 ms 216.6.87.14 (216.6.87.14) 35.864 ms 206.82.139.46 (206.82.139.46) 36.523 ms
9 206.82.139.46 (206.82.139.46) 36.749 ms 216.6.87.14 (216.6.87.14) 41.199 ms 206.82.139.46 (206.82.139.46) 41.465 ms
10 ae-2.r23.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.145) 122.919 ms ae-6.r21.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.113) 37.240 ms 37.056 ms
11 ae-2.r02.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.159) 136.495 ms 129.175 ms ae-2.r23.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.145) 132.934 ms
12 xe-4-1.r02.dsdfge01.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.65) 121.471 ms ae-2.r02.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.159) 127.423 ms 128.558 ms
13 * xe-4-1.r02.dsdfge01.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.65) 128.713 ms *
14 213.198.77.122 (213.198.77.122) 129.812 ms 136.221 ms *
15 213.198.77.122 (213.198.77.122) 129.959 ms * *
[snip *] I think this is a joke.
remember when it was based on random orbit sats or on the ocean?
How can it be stolen if the owner still has it?
What file-sharing folks "steal" are legal fictions not tangible objects.
Media corps steal from us all privatizing bits of the culture and selling them back to us. Perhaps in the old days of reasonable copyright arguments could be made but really what is my moral obligation to respect the rights of say the Avengers film's makers? The film is based on characters Marvel stole from Kirby (characters that should be public domain by now). So when a person downloads that film is he stealing from Joss Weldon, Stan Lee or Jack Kirby?
the word theft does not even apply to file-sharing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft I disagree with your test analogy what test is a pirate cheating on? In my opinion it is okay to rob mafia owned banks.
(if you can get away with it).
Yes, North Korea is basically the exact same as the US we just hide it better.
This is quite possibly the most ironic thing I've ever read. EDIT: TorrentFreak article because I didn't believe TPB at first.