TPB planning to use drones
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The Pirate Bay is planning on using Drone Technology over international waters to provide the services they continue to have to move around while avoiding pesky law enforcement.
Using what has been dubbed by the author as Low Orbit Server Stations or LOSS.
Dispatching of these drones would require a literal war in the skies.
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@DustinB3403 said in TPB planning to use drones:
Dispatching of these drones would require a literal war in the skies.
But in international waters so....
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@scottalanmiller said in TPB planning to use drones:
@DustinB3403 said in TPB planning to use drones:
Dispatching of these drones would require a literal war in the skies.
But in international waters so....
I see it now.. big companies send ships to sea to shoot down drones - someone like the RIAA.
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@Dashrender said in TPB planning to use drones:
@scottalanmiller said in TPB planning to use drones:
@DustinB3403 said in TPB planning to use drones:
Dispatching of these drones would require a literal war in the skies.
But in international waters so....
I see it now.. big companies send ships to sea to shoot down drones - someone like the RIAA.
Then drones get armed with marine defenses and torpedos.
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@Dashrender said in TPB planning to use drones:
@scottalanmiller said in TPB planning to use drones:
@DustinB3403 said in TPB planning to use drones:
Dispatching of these drones would require a literal war in the skies.
But in international waters so....
I see it now.. big companies send ships to sea to shoot down drones - someone like the RIAA.
Pretty much, but it would be so cost inefficient to send out ships with munitions (of any kind) plus the man power to try and tackle the 1 or 2 or even 100 in a 50 sql mile range.
You'd be far better off just giving away the media.
Doing so, enacting war on a target like this, would only drive the price of the media up. Thus driving more people to steal more of it.
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@dafyre said in TPB planning to use drones:
@Dashrender said in TPB planning to use drones:
@scottalanmiller said in TPB planning to use drones:
@DustinB3403 said in TPB planning to use drones:
Dispatching of these drones would require a literal war in the skies.
But in international waters so....
I see it now.. big companies send ships to sea to shoot down drones - someone like the RIAA.
Then drones get armed with marine defenses and torpedos.
Ha no, these drones are tiny, ultra light weight relays. It would be a complete burden to do anything other then send them off into the air and do what they are programmed for.
The plan as I understood it was to charge them with solar power and ultra lightweight batteries. From there, if it crashes the operator would get an alert and print another one with their 3D printer.
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@DustinB3403 said in TPB planning to use drones:
@dafyre said in TPB planning to use drones:
@Dashrender said in TPB planning to use drones:
@scottalanmiller said in TPB planning to use drones:
@DustinB3403 said in TPB planning to use drones:
Dispatching of these drones would require a literal war in the skies.
But in international waters so....
I see it now.. big companies send ships to sea to shoot down drones - someone like the RIAA.
Then drones get armed with marine defenses and torpedos.
Ha no, these drones are tiny, ultra light weight relays. It would be a complete burden to do anything other then send them off into the air and do what they are programmed for.
The plan as I understood it was to charge them with solar power and ultra lightweight batteries. From there, if it crashes the operator would get an alert and print another one with their 3D printer.
Oh, yeah... that sounds easier.
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I wonder why they aren't using LTA drones for this. Google was proposing this for Africa just suspend neutrally buoyant balloons with GPS so that they can remain in place with some lightweight electric motors.
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@coliver said in TPB planning to use drones:
I wonder why they aren't using LTA drones for this. Google was proposing this for Africa just suspend neutrally buoyant balloons with GPS so that they can remain in place with some lightweight electric motors.
I thought that Google's were going to drift and needed a lot of them because of that. Google was not trying to remain in international waters.
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@scottalanmiller said in TPB planning to use drones:
@coliver said in TPB planning to use drones:
I wonder why they aren't using LTA drones for this. Google was proposing this for Africa just suspend neutrally buoyant balloons with GPS so that they can remain in place with some lightweight electric motors.
I thought that Google's were going to drift and needed a lot of them because of that. Google was not trying to remain in international waters.
I think you're right. They had a means of using GPS and electric motors to anchor them in place but that wouldn't help in a lot of instances in the continental US.
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@coliver said in TPB planning to use drones:
@scottalanmiller said in TPB planning to use drones:
@coliver said in TPB planning to use drones:
I wonder why they aren't using LTA drones for this. Google was proposing this for Africa just suspend neutrally buoyant balloons with GPS so that they can remain in place with some lightweight electric motors.
I thought that Google's were going to drift and needed a lot of them because of that. Google was not trying to remain in international waters.
I think you're right. They had a means of using GPS and electric motors to anchor them in place but that wouldn't help in a lot of instances in the continental US.
Those balloons use the small electric motors to pump more normal air into a compartment inside the balloon to descend, and pump air out of the compartment to ascend. Just by moving into different air currents, it's feasible to keep a balloon withing a limited airspace (assuming you can change altitude, which normally means staying well above airline cruising level.)
