"We're just starting so we haven't figured everything out yet. The Pirate Bay figures that modern radio transmitters can transfer more than 100Mbps at over 50 kilometers away, which will be more than enough for a proxy system. "This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system.
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