Sky Pirates

[mattingly]

From mashable:

 

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is planning to build robot drone planes to host its servers in the sky. That way, the thinking goes, law enforcement won't be able to seize their machines without committing overtly aggressive acts such as firing the flying servers down with anti-aircraft weaponry.

 

"We can't limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore," the site said in a blog post Sunday. "These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we're building, that's more than enough."

 

Certainly a usable plot seed...

[Captain Obvious]

Re: Sky Pirates

 

Interesting.

 

Wouldn't they have to file flight plans though? How likely is a country going to be to approve that if it's a known criminal activity? And if they're buzzing around without approval and posing a hazard to legitimate air traffic, isn't law enforcement not only justified but ethically required to shoot them down?

[Beast]

Re: Sky Pirates

 

it could resurrect the airborne laser system

a 747 w/ a few megawatt laser system firing up so no fragments except those of the slagged server farm

this system is for destroying ICBM at 600km

could use a lower setting to burn off antennas

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

 

or have an AEGIS radar system go full power and act as a focused EMP on it

upto 4 MILLION watts of microwave power directed at the receiver will at the minimum drown out any upload/requests to them