Retro Yakking

Edited from image by The Pirate Bay.

Somali pirates responsible for hijacking an oil tanker off the coast of Kenya have taken popular filesharing website The Pirate Bay hostage. It is said that one of the pirates got his hands on a discarded second hand laptop and turned his attention to the Internet, quickly discovering and signing up to thepiratebay.org.

Now, a group of up to ten Somalians have taken over the website by force and have set up unauthorised mirrors on free hosting websites such as Geocities and Batcave.

The pirates are thought to have infiltrated TPB’s servers by entering email correspondence with the previous owners promising “much monies”, which, of course, never materialised. A particularly gullible high school student on his work experience was tricked into handing over the domain username (”Rrrrrr”) and password (”Piecesofeight”) allowing the African pirates unlimited access to the servers.

This is an outrage. Nobody pirates the Pirate Bay, not even the pirates! What happened to honour amongst thieves? These African pirates have no scruples, I tells ya. — Pirate Bay spokesman

Internet users are advised to be in “extreme vigilance mode” and steer clear of sites that bear any of the following names:

• www.pirat_baye_much_monies_to_be_earnt.batcave.net
• www.THEpyratMODALITIES.geocities.com
• www.mywifehaskidneydamageandineedmoneynow.angelfire.com
• www.WEWILLWIREYOUTHEpirateMONIES!!!!.googlepages.com
• www.google.corm

The pirates are demanding exactly one billion dollars gigabytes of computer memory to store their DIVX full quality pirated African Babes, Wizard of Oz and Zulu DVDs. Police are reluctant to do anything at all because it is their day off.

Save the pirates from the pirates? Gimme a break. I’d rather have a bowl of Coco Pops. — I.M.N Arikaan-Coppa

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