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Sc00bs
Brisbane, Queensland
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http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/10/19/pirates-in-the-sky-filesharers-want-to-build-weather-balloon-hosted-download-site/

Updated with clarifications from Pirate Party US legal advisor Andrew Norton regarding the term “copyright infringement” and PPI’s lack of direct connections to Wikileaks and filesharing sites. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an anarchic, copyright-flouting peer-to-peer filesharing site hosted from a high-altitude balloon.




haha sounds interesting
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
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Sc00bs
Brisbane, Queensland
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/02/hackers-cybercrime-cryptography-technology-security-satellite.html

Using less than $75 in tools, Nve, a researcher with security firm S21Sec, says that he can intercept Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) signals to get free high-speed Internet.


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teq
Brisbane, Queensland
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sounds like it will never take off
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Trauma
Melbourne, Victoria
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Clearly not grounded in reality.
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Plasma
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That is hilarious. MPAA will soon own a fleet of fighter jets.
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
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Maybe the first movie that they can pirate could be http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427229/
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WetWired
Brisbane, Queensland
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these crazy kids with their head in the clouds
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Midda
Brisbane, Queensland
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Sounds far-fetched, but hey, the sky's the limit.
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Jimbo
Brisbane, Queensland
517 posts
which high flyer thought up this idea?
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konstie
Melbourne, Victoria
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these crazy kids with their head in the clouds


i get it!
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konstie
Melbourne, Victoria
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these crazy kids with their head in the clouds


i get it!


Ohhh NOW i get it.
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Jim
Brisbane, Queensland
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seems like this could easily be thwarted by a conveyor belt
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Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
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“We plan to use some kind of balloon and try to keep it up in the air for as long as possible,” writes a Swedish engineer named Erik Lönroth, “Hopefully irritating the crap out of authorities in as many countries as possible.”


Oh no! If only the countries out there with major intellectual property interests had access to anti-aircraft technology and were capable of global force projection! Those wily pirates have outwitted everyone...

Also spotted this earlier
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-parties-plan-to-shoot-torrent-site-into-orbit-101020/


What I don't get is, if they think they can raise enough cash to send a fucking satellite into orbit, why not just BUY those dvds instead of downloading them?
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Insom
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oh the humanity!
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