Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by tlrobinson on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:28PM (#8725898)

I'm imagining a Daemon (as in the Daniel Suarez book) like system that gets paid by web advertising companies in Bitcoin, and automatically spawns it's servers on cloud providers who accept payment in Bitcoin. One or more hot backups on a single VM would silently wait for the live system to go down, then respawn itself and switch over the DNS. Namecoin could be used in place of, or augmenting, traditional domain names.

The only really tricky bit is "raid-proofing" secrets (Bitcoin/Namecoin private keys, DNS credentials), but Amazon and presumably other cloud providers are starting to offer HSMs. Or perhaps some combination of Shamir's Secret Sharing and multisig wallets + voting pools.

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Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by pavel_lishin on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @05:20PM (#8726235)

You might be interested in Charles Stross's "Accelerando", where he posits a similar system of python scripts acting as decentralized companies, constantly shuffling ownership of themselves among themselves.

It's been too long since I've read it, so I forget what the actual point was.

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Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by sdrinf on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:39PM (#8726877)

Ironically enough, sub-second music IP rights swap between the shell corps, so as to dodge any lawsuits getting anything out of them.

Worked great too, unless you discount the whole "convert the earth into computronium" in later chapters implying it's origin from the same subsystems.

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Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by nmjohn on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:42PM (#8725989)

I think you will find this interesting then: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents

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