"After Being Cut From Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns From North Korea" or is it just BGP Tricks

Tue Mar 5 15:54:00 UTC 2013

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:43:05PM +0000,
 Bacon Zombie <baconzombie at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 71 lines which said:

> But there is a lot of debate on Reddit that they are not really in
> North Korea and just doing some BGP trickery:

And ICMP trickery, to send false ICMP replies (with a delay) to
traceroute requests.

I am certain they are not in North Korea. The TCP latency when you
connect with HTTP to thepiratebay.se if < 40 ms, something which you
cannot have from North Korea.