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“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink
- udp 14y agoAs do Google Cache links, I hear.
- shin_lao 14y agoThis patch brings back good memories. Memories when I was a child and I had to run various "patches" or "resident programs" to run games. Oddly enough they were phrased similarly and shared that same, excessive, punctuation. Will the next Pirate Bay patch feature an intro?
- andrewcooke 14y agoif anyone is interested i wrote a python script a few years ago that is similar (from the examples it looks like i was annoyed by wikileaks being blocked) - it automates the patching of your hosts file and adds some extra metadata. https://github.com/andrewcooke/GhettoNet https://github.com/andrewcooke/GhettoNet
- nodata 14y agoClever name, but all it does is edit a hosts file. Not sure why this is so highly rated on HN.
- belorn 14y agoIf it auto-updates, maybe this can be a early step towards a more resilient DNS system that route around damage.
- 89a 14y agohaha whats next? "Turn off your virus check, it's a false positive!!!!"
- tezza 14y agoYeah, running an .exe ? Why would I do that ? "Your hosts file has been updated. Thank you for your automatic donation to our fund from your bitcoin wallet"
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- rane 14y agohttp://elite.so/tpp/proxy.txt http://elite.so/tpp/proxy.txt URL used by the script to get the IP.
- sweenster 14y agoSome guy wrote an article about a 2 line script that most people who are savvy enough to pirate already know how to do? Stop the presses, HN