{"id":46118,"date":"2012-03-20T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46118"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:37:55","slug":"the-pirate-bay-moving-hosting-to-gps-controlled-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/46118-the-pirate-bay-moving-hosting-to-gps-controlled-drones.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Bay moving hosting to GPS-controlled drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to avoid censorship, <a title=\"The Pirate Bay\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/395483-The-Pirate-Bay\">The Pirate Bay (TPB)<\/a> plans to host part of their site on GPS-controlled drones which hover above international waters.<\/p>\n<p>TPB want to \u201cexperiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometres up in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows WHAT TPB is. Now they\u2019re going to have to think about WHERE TPB is,\u201d the site\u2019s team told news site <em>TorrentFreak<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019re already the most resilient and the most down to earth. That\u2019s why we need to lift off; being this connected to the ground doesn\u2019t feel appropriate to us anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The website has faced numerous raids and investigations over the last few years, with authorities attempting to shut down the site, accusing it of aiding piracy.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the drones on their blog, TPB team said, \u201cThese 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\u2019re building, that\u2019s more than enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/03\/19\/the-pirate-bay-plans-to-host-part-of-its-site-on-gps-controlled-drones\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unmanned drones floating above international waters will soon host part of The Pirate Bay website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":41099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10024,8033],"class_list":["post-46118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-low-orbit-server-stations","tag-the-pirate-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46120,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118\/revisions\/46120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}