It really is absurd, I can't believe anyone would take it seriously for a second.
I mean go to http://thepiratebay.se/legal and read some of the stuff they send back to companies/lobby groups who threaten them with legal action. Hilarious, but you wouldn't exactly take what they are saying as gospel.
When I think of unmanned UAVs, I think of advanced DARPA research, or the UAV from the GRAW videogames[1]. This isn't something remotely feasible for TPB.
This is what I'd imagine happened:
- The pirate bay guys, with their naughty sense of humour, sat around a table and said "hmm, wonder what we could possibly do right now to make the MPAA and their Congressional lapdogs really choke on their caviar and burbon..."
- Mikael* in the corner pipes up, "I know! Let's announce some outlandish, yet semi-technically feasible idea which geeks will know is bullshit but will make those crazy, out-of-control American lawmakers propose some more insane laws. Then in a couple of weeks, we can release another announcement, saying what idiots they are and why do they insist on wasting taxpayers dollars on locking down their own airspace and generally turning themselves into North Korea..."
- Then the chairman goes "Great idea! Meeting adjourned. Mikael, you are promoted to senior-shit stirrer!"
(Needless to say, this is all conjecture and quite possibly bullshit, but far more plausible to me than TPB actually launching sci-fi UAVs in the near future.)
*I'm making up a Nordic-sounding name here, what can I say, I'm reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the moment.
I mean go to http://thepiratebay.se/legal and read some of the stuff they send back to companies/lobby groups who threaten them with legal action. Hilarious, but you wouldn't exactly take what they are saying as gospel.
When I think of unmanned UAVs, I think of advanced DARPA research, or the UAV from the GRAW videogames[1]. This isn't something remotely feasible for TPB.
This is what I'd imagine happened:
- The pirate bay guys, with their naughty sense of humour, sat around a table and said "hmm, wonder what we could possibly do right now to make the MPAA and their Congressional lapdogs really choke on their caviar and burbon..."
- Mikael* in the corner pipes up, "I know! Let's announce some outlandish, yet semi-technically feasible idea which geeks will know is bullshit but will make those crazy, out-of-control American lawmakers propose some more insane laws. Then in a couple of weeks, we can release another announcement, saying what idiots they are and why do they insist on wasting taxpayers dollars on locking down their own airspace and generally turning themselves into North Korea..."
- Then the chairman goes "Great idea! Meeting adjourned. Mikael, you are promoted to senior-shit stirrer!"
(Needless to say, this is all conjecture and quite possibly bullshit, but far more plausible to me than TPB actually launching sci-fi UAVs in the near future.)
*I'm making up a Nordic-sounding name here, what can I say, I'm reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at the moment.
[1] http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/765/765249...