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DATE | 2013-08-11 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Privacy and Piracy
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Sun Aug 11 16:16:02 2013 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id B14C0161133; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:16:01 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id A1D9416113D; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:16:01 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E426161133 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9E5280E5 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:16:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix2.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20529) id C8DEA33C9E; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:16:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:16:03 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: NYLXS Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Privacy and Piracy Message-ID: <20130811201603.GA28211-at-panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/10/pirate-bay-ships-piratebrowser-for-censorship-free-search/
Shiver me timbers and other pirate-related cliches! The Pirate Bay has introduced the PirateBrowser, a tasty blend of Firefox and Tor with some snazzy add-ons that circumvent anti-piracy measures around the world.
As a 10-year anniversary present to its users, the Pirate Bay team created the Pirate Browser to get around censorship measures in countries as diverse as Germany, Italy, the UK, Malaysia, China, almost all of Scandinavia, and India, to name but a few.
Microsoft chat services and Facebook also block the sharing of Pirate Bay links.
In a blog post, the team writes,
Do you know any people who can.t access TPB or other torrents sites because they are blocked? Recommend PirateBrowser to them. It.s a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible. No bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap, just a pre-configured Firefox browser.
The browser won.t give you Tor-class anonymity for all your browsing; it.ll only take care of the search results censorship.
The Pirate Bay, which prides itself on its resiliency, has had more than its share of legal woes over the past couple years in particular. Its hosting situation has been a game of geographical Whack-A-Mole, with North Korea currently providing virtual asylum to the service.
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I wonder if it has spyware built in..
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