Kiosk of Piracy

While your still waiting for the kOS (Kiosk Operation System) you can mod your boot screen on Mac with this little helper and one of these logos.

Today KIOSK09 appropriated the Kiosk of Piracy. Who pirated who?

Hackerspaces.org is a great wiki about hackerspaces worldwide. We added the Kisok as a hackerspace and our running projects (TPK & KOP OS). We are looking for some help with the KOP OS.

Ok, we’ll try to explain how to built your own The Pirate Kiosk. You need 3 things:

• a database dump of The Pirate Bay and/or all the torrent files hosted there
• a tracker software and
• a website

At first, we downloaded a dump of TPB from TPB itself. After that, we downloaded some pages from TPB and defaced the HTML, but you don’t really have to this. All you need is a website indexing all the torrents you have. That is still our biggest problem, we have no solution for a working details.php nor for getting the .torrent out of the database. So we just linked to the .torrents we downloaded here, here and here (you need all of these three). K, now you have the site, and hopefully an index, but no tracker. We encourage you to use the opentracker, powering both TPB and TPK. The opentracker is available here. There is a tutorial available on BTarena, but you don’t all of the apache stuff (especially vhost configuration), since the tutorial is written for people joining the (online) BTarena network.

Yeah, and after some Club-Mate, Photoshopping and apache2 mod_alias vodoo we got an running copy of the Bay for your hood.

(Or you can paper-craft your own.)

As a next step we want to create a dump of your code. Also, we still dream of a Pirate Kiosk kiosk-software. There should be pretty easy solution involving Linux Live CDs or somehing like this. If you know the voodo to do this, plz tell us
Don’t hesitate to contact our development department at dev@kioskofpiracy.org

There are quite a few conversations and discussion going on at different places in the Internet right now. The sheer mass of them makes it impossible to answer everything, so we would like to add the following general comments.

• Some people wished that the Kiosk should be connected to the Internet. That would be pointless. TPB is still up running and there are services ready to replace them (in the Internet) if they should ever sink. Why are we certain about it? The power of TPB lies in the swarm, and thats YOU.
• Quite many users fantasized about connecting several of this Kiosks to some inner-city network (with wires or without). This is basicly the decade-old dream of a very big, very cool WAN-Party. Although it would make sense to do it, we choose not do connect it because we wanted to establish this Kiosk as a self-contained piece. But: The router we used is running OpenWRT, and like in Berlin, there is also a freifunk wireless meshed city network present in Weimar, called weimarnetz. We haven’t checked out if the Sophienstiftsplatz is in range, but in theory all that it would take to make this dream come true is a firmware update.
• When you download a torrent from the Kiosk and you hope to get the content, you have to make shure that somebody else with that file comes there. “Spread the word, wait for peers!”
• We encourage everybody to build your own Pirate Kiosks. For starters, there is a PDF for those of you who want to build a paper craft version. We will post technical instructions on how to build a working one soon.
• Yes, it does work. Some british dude actually checked it out and made a video about it:

We have some real digital fotos for your, in contrast to the previously seen pictures made with a telephone.

The Pirate Kiosk at the Kiosk of Piracy based at the Sophienstiftsplatz serves .torrents with the following Tracker-URLs:

• http://192.168.42.1:6969/announce & http://tracker.kioskofpiracy.org:6969/annouce - offline tracker url in the local WLAN “kioskofpiracy.org”
• http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce – #NoComment
• http://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce – 4 teh lulz
• http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce – oO #omg #wtf #BBQ! ~.~

What does it mean? After downloading a .torrent from The Pirate Kiosk, you are able to share your pirated content on a local space in Weimar with your friends or share over teh internetz with your 10 million best-buddy friends

Dear users and abusers, dear Elders of the Internet,

the Kiosk of Piracy is proud to announce the launch of “The Pirate Kiosk”! From last night own, a copy of the infamous Pirate Bay is available to the public, but – here comes the catch – offline-only. Yes, offline, the Kiosk is not connected to the Internet in any way, but the interested public is invited to use the service in a wifi-radius around it.

With our newest project, we are joining the work of the dear people and groups which managed to duplicate the contents of The Pirate Bay on other places in the Net. We want to show in a very physical way that the Internet is neither a machine nor controllable in any way – it is just a system of agreements which work in any circumstances. We don’t need the Internet – the magic can happen anywhere.

The Pirate Kiosk features a webinterface similar to it’s online brother (reachable under http://kioskofpiracy.org – IF you are in wifi range), a tracker service (under http://tracker.kioskofpiracy.org:6969), a growing backup of most of the Bay’s .torrent files and the ability to upload files which will be added to the integrated Seedbox.

Some Pictures:

Map:

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