“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink(torrentfreak.com)

46 pointsby anons201114 lat temu8 comments

“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-patch-unblocks-the-pirate-bay-in-a-blink-120821/

9 comments

This 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?

nodata14 lat temu

Clever name, but all it does is edit a hosts file. Not sure why this is so highly rated on HN.

andrewcooke14 lat temu

if 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

rane14 lat temu

http://elite.so/tpp/proxy.txt URL used by the script to get the IP.

[deleted]14 lat temu

udp14 lat temu

As do Google Cache links, I hear.

sweenster14 lat temu

89a14 lat temu

haha whats next? "Turn off your virus check, it's a false positive!!!!"

tezza14 lat temu

Yeah, 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"

belorn14 lat temu

If it auto-updates, maybe this can be a early step towards a more resilient DNS system that route around damage.