“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink (torrentfreak.com)

As do Google Cache links, I hear.

This patch brings back good memories.

Memories when I was a child and I had to run various "patches" or "resident programs" to run games.

Oddly enough they were phrased similarly and shared that same, excessive, punctuation.

Will the next Pirate Bay patch feature an intro?

if anyone is interested i wrote a python script a few years ago that is similar (from the examples it looks like i was annoyed by wikileaks being blocked) - it automates the patching of your hosts file and adds some extra metadata. https://github.com/andrewcooke/GhettoNet

Clever name, but all it does is edit a hosts file. Not sure why this is so highly rated on HN.

If it auto-updates, maybe this can be a early step towards a more resilient DNS system that route around damage.

haha whats next? "Turn off your virus check, it's a false positive!!!!"

  "Your hosts file has been updated.
  Thank you for your automatic donation
  to our fund from your bitcoin wallet"

http://elite.so/tpp/proxy.txt URL used by the script to get the IP.

Some guy wrote an article about a 2 line script that most people who are savvy enough to pirate already know how to do? Stop the presses, HN