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To Avoid Shutdown, Torrent Site Will Host Servers on Flying Drones

34 points by hardtke 15y ago

slimdizzy 15y ago
had to check my calender to see if it was April fool's day.
skeletonjelly 15y ago
This is like broadsheet newspapers all over again. PR release provides most if not all of the content of an article. "Previous discussion": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721198 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721198
xelipe 15y ago
To avoid shutdown, torrent site will host servers on flying drones only to be shutdown by government with predator drones?
- phillco 15y ago
  Newswire: US Blows Up Another Torrent Site
lignuist 15y ago
How is being shot down better than being shut down?
J3L2404 15y ago
We'll build a fort out back and eat candy for dinner every night, it'll be great.
Permit 15y ago
Seems to me a single storm might be capable of bringing down most all of these drones, wouldn't it? I wonder how they plan to account for this unless they plan to put them at extremely high altitudes.
philip1209 15y ago
It is so easy to shut these down without making the perpetrator easily known that the idea is ridiculous. If Iran can commandeer a US military drone, I think that this system is a waste of money. - An EMP would wipe-out unprotected electronics easily - Targeted energy weapons could fry sensors or the whole ship - The frequencies it uses can be jammed - A Barrett .50, on the ground or out of a helicopter, could vaporize one of these - A seemingly normal airplane could "accidentally" ram it - A similar airplane could use a net and capture it, leaving no evidence - Hell, if it flies high enough, its onboard GPS device might self-deactivate due to US law.
- swang 15y ago
  Assuming these suggestions would be possible, who will condone wasting a lot of military resources on this? I think though the big picture is that if these are so ubiquitous and easily deployable, then using one of these tactics to take one down is a waste of time and resources. Imagine detonating an EMP bomb 5 miles into the air to kill the surrounding drones (ignoring the possible backlash if an airplane or something else gets caught in the blast and causes an accident), only to have 10 more drones pop back up. This is all assuming of course that this idea can work.
  - mdc 15y ago
    >only to have 10 more drones pop back up This only works if TPB has significantly more money than every government and commercial concern that would like to take them offline.
james4k 15y ago
What a joke. These drones would still have to connect to the internet somehow...you would need radio transmitters on the ground, which would totally defeat the purpose of the drones.
- est 15y ago
  > What a joke. These drones would still have to connect to the internet somehow... Not really, it's local area intranet. You only need a one-time handshake to connect to the public DHT peer networks.
supahhotfiyah 15y ago
They could outfit the drones with weaponry and have them do aerial battle with the US air force
supahhotfiyah 15y ago
They could outfit the drones with weaponry and have them do aerial battle with the US air force

34 points by hardtke 15y ago

had to check my calender to see if it was April fool's day.

This is like broadsheet newspapers all over again. PR release provides most if not all of the content of an article. "Previous discussion": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721198 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721198

xelipe 15y ago

To avoid shutdown, torrent site will host servers on flying drones only to be shutdown by government with predator drones?

phillco 15y ago
Newswire: US Blows Up Another Torrent Site

lignuist 15y ago

How is being shot down better than being shut down?

J3L2404 15y ago

We'll build a fort out back and eat candy for dinner every night, it'll be great.

Permit 15y ago

Seems to me a single storm might be capable of bringing down most all of these drones, wouldn't it? I wonder how they plan to account for this unless they plan to put them at extremely high altitudes.

philip1209 15y ago

It is so easy to shut these down without making the perpetrator easily known that the idea is ridiculous. If Iran can commandeer a US military drone, I think that this system is a waste of money. - An EMP would wipe-out unprotected electronics easily - Targeted energy weapons could fry sensors or the whole ship - The frequencies it uses can be jammed - A Barrett .50, on the ground or out of a helicopter, could vaporize one of these - A seemingly normal airplane could "accidentally" ram it - A similar airplane could use a net and capture it, leaving no evidence - Hell, if it flies high enough, its onboard GPS device might self-deactivate due to US law.

swang 15y ago
Assuming these suggestions would be possible, who will condone wasting a lot of military resources on this? I think though the big picture is that if these are so ubiquitous and easily deployable, then using one of these tactics to take one down is a waste of time and resources. Imagine detonating an EMP bomb 5 miles into the air to kill the surrounding drones (ignoring the possible backlash if an airplane or something else gets caught in the blast and causes an accident), only to have 10 more drones pop back up. This is all assuming of course that this idea can work.
- mdc 15y ago
  >only to have 10 more drones pop back up This only works if TPB has significantly more money than every government and commercial concern that would like to take them offline.

james4k 15y ago

What a joke. These drones would still have to connect to the internet somehow...you would need radio transmitters on the ground, which would totally defeat the purpose of the drones.

est 15y ago
> What a joke. These drones would still have to connect to the internet somehow... Not really, it's local area intranet. You only need a one-time handshake to connect to the public DHT peer networks.

supahhotfiyah 15y ago

They could outfit the drones with weaponry and have them do aerial battle with the US air force

supahhotfiyah 15y ago

They could outfit the drones with weaponry and have them do aerial battle with the US air force