
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – The Pirate Bay’s Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS)…
With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.
We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.
But when time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy, being true to our slogan of being the galaxy’s most resilient system. And all of the parts we’ll use to build that system on will be downloadable.

The Pirate Bay should team up with the HoverMast folks
Previously:
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – The Pirate Bay 3D Prints Hollywood
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – HoverMast


Skynet
It brings another dimension to the expression “our servers have crashed” !!!
Airships are more efficient as compared to quadcopters
No, no, we didn’t attack your sats. It was a piece of space junk or a meteor or something. We swear.
i read this, and then went to watch ST: TNG season 4. guess which episode i was on? episode 10, “the loss”.
they should use hot air balloons or blimps
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