The pirate spirit lingers on

The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world’s most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on, The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure. That's a great choice for a site that has been great to me over the last 18 months. Thanks to their huge selection of movies and TV shows, I can save hundreds because I don't need the DVD versions. And because a lot of newer episodes of TV shows are uploaded as soon as possible after they first air in America, I will have seen this season's episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy before they air in New Zealand the following weekend. And speaking of the weekend, a Sydney man in jail for participating in two gang rapes has been refused parole for a third time but will be allowed out on weekends.