To Avoid Shutdown, Torrent Site Will Host Servers on Flying Drones

Re:To Avoid Shutdown, Torrent Site Will Host Servers on Flyi... by philip1209 on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @10:51PM (#3732859)

It is so easy to shut these down without making the perpetrator easily known that the idea is ridiculous. If Iran can commandeer a US military drone, I think that this system is a waste of money.

- An EMP would wipe-out unprotected electronics easily

- Targeted energy weapons could fry sensors or the whole ship - The frequencies it uses can be jammed

- A Barrett .50, on the ground or out of a helicopter, could vaporize one of these

- A seemingly normal airplane could "accidentally" ram it

- A similar airplane could use a net and capture it, leaving no evidence

- Hell, if it flies high enough, its onboard GPS device might self-deactivate due to US law.

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Re:To Avoid Shutdown, Torrent Site Will Host Servers on Flyi... by swang on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @11:06PM (#3732896)

Assuming these suggestions would be possible, who will condone wasting a lot of military resources on this?

I think though the big picture is that if these are so ubiquitous and easily deployable, then using one of these tactics to take one down is a waste of time and resources. Imagine detonating an EMP bomb 5 miles into the air to kill the surrounding drones (ignoring the possible backlash if an airplane or something else gets caught in the blast and causes an accident), only to have 10 more drones pop back up.

This is all assuming of course that this idea can work.

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Re:To Avoid Shutdown, Torrent Site Will Host Servers on Flyi... by mdc on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @02:06PM (#3735597)

>only to have 10 more drones pop back up

This only works if TPB has significantly more money than every government and commercial concern that would like to take them offline.

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