Hyperlocal Peer-to-Peer Piracy

The Pirate Bay is always under threat, whether it be governments or mysterious new owners, but the community behind its massive collection of files is actively finding ways to continue their (often) illicit pursuits.  One solution is to backup the immense catalog of torrents so that they can be transferred to a new site that will likely spring up if the Pirate Bay ever goes offline.  Another, more drastic option is the creation of The Pirate Kiosk, an offline torrent tracker that only works if you are within range of the WiFi signal.

The Pirate Kiosk is a local router that hosts the files from the Pirate Bay and can even function if the world wide web is cleaned of Pirate Bay files.  The obvious main downside is the need to be within range of the kiosk in Weimar, Germany.  Instead of having access to the 10 million active users, you’ll only have access to the few in your neighborhood connected to the server.  It’s a project that seems to be a protest proving the snowballing effect of anti-piracy attempts or as the Pirate Kiosk site states,

We want to show in a very physical way that the Internet is neither a machine nor controllable in any way – it is just a system of agreements which work in any circumstances. We don’t need the Internet – the magic can happen anywhere.

[via Nerdcore.de]