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Filesharers Want To Build Weather-Balloon-Hosted Download Site
- petervandijck 16y agoThat's awesome. When it flies above international waters it won't be regulated?
- seabee 16y agoIt can still be regulated/blocked by the countries people live in, just like with the Pirate Bay. The only recourse is wireless transmission, like the old pirate radio ships, but given the state of satellite technology that model would not translate well.
- jrockway 16y agoWhat countries regulate/block the Pirate Bay without blocking all other outgoing traffic? The reality is that people use VPN providers in friendly countries for their file-sharing now. What you see when you type in thepiratebay to your web browser has little relation to what is actually happening in the file-sharing community.
- cmars232 16y agoFascinated with the practicality of this. How do you keep such a balloon at a stable altitude and position? And what about power generation? Or radiation hardening?
- cynest 16y agoSolar with a battery is probably the best for long durations. I imagine gyroscopes might be useful for stabilization. Radiation hardening is fairly simple; most things requiring the shielding can be shielded, with cables connecting them to antennas. To me the biggest issue would be preventing government/RIAA (or equivalent by country) from crippling it electronically from the ground. The server would have to be maintained from the ground, so any malfunction or bug would be the deadliest threat.
- qq66 16y agoWow, the pirates are coming full circle to their intellectual ancestors, and launching a fleet of vessels!
- Qz 16y agoThis is all so Snowcrash -- welcome to yesterday's science fiction.
- aberkowitz 16y agoThis is not practical, logical, or cost effective. If this is anything more than free news coverage, then those involved are idiots.