It’s time to sink the ship and move on!
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viralbugRank: 19
It's time to sink the Pirate Bay, and replace it
In just a few weeks time The Pirate Bay as we know it will be no more. There is no doubt that its demise will signal the end of an era, however, it will also mark the start of a new one. Or to use the words of Pirate Bay insider Rasmus Fleischer, It's time to sink the ship and move on!
Whether or not The Pirate Bay will end up being sold, the ship has served its purpose and is destined for Davy Jone's Locker. Luckily for most BitTorrent fans there are plenty of alternatives.
However, in the current climate where media moguls send their lawyers after everything that could be used to infringe copyrights, a paradigm shift might be needed. This is exactly what Piracy Bureau co-founder and Pirate Bay insider Rasmus Fleischer is hinting at. In short he argues that The Pirate Bay will dissolve, but in its place many new TPBs will return, just without the familiar domain name and pirate ship logo.
This is very similar to a concept Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde had in mind for the new Pirate Bay. A decentralized setup through which the torrent site controls only a tiny part of the sharing process.
At the basis of this new scheme are two services that have launched in recent months, all run by people close to the original Pirate Bay crew. On the one hand there is the new OpenBitTorrent tracker that does not have a searchable index of torrents, but is simply used as a standalone tracker handling communication between peers.
To decentralize even further, friends of The Pirate Bay have launched the new torrent hosting service Torrage. This new service is open to other torrent sites and can be accessed through an API. When Torrage and OpenBitTorrent are combined everyone can run a BitTorrent site of their own with minimal resources.
There is little doubt that The Pirate Bay as we know it will cease to exist, but with OpenBitTorrent and Torrage it is easy enough to build new ones!
Posted by viralbug on Monday, September 14, 2009, 1:16 pm
sonataRank: 79
Long live the pirates... and the torrents!!
Posted by sonata on Monday, September 14, 2009, 2:35 pm
korbenRank: 57
they been pretty beat up these days, all the law issues and better competing sites!
Posted by korben on Monday, September 14, 2009, 4:48 pm
ashu888a...Rank: 77
hmm.. shud i be posting an update here.. lol..
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Ok, well the so called "the Pirate bay" (tpb in short) is not EXACTLY dead, there hv been alternatives to it..and these so called alternatives are coming up on the internet scene preety fast and quick..
also, its jus a matter of changing the tracker settings for users to again hop onto the torrent bus and start resuming the d/loads again.. :)
another update: OBT=OpenBitTorrent is the new TPB (ThePirateBay) :) and its for real.. guys.. :)
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Cheers n e-peace....
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Ok, well the so called "the Pirate bay" (tpb in short) is not EXACTLY dead, there hv been alternatives to it..and these so called alternatives are coming up on the internet scene preety fast and quick..
also, its jus a matter of changing the tracker settings for users to again hop onto the torrent bus and start resuming the d/loads again.. :)
another update: OBT=OpenBitTorrent is the new TPB (ThePirateBay) :) and its for real.. guys.. :)
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Cheers n e-peace....
Posted by ashu888ashu888 on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 1:20 pm
calebjon...Rank: 21
Yeah as soon as I heard the news I bought a few domains that are all torrent related. One of them being piratecommunity which is mainly a dead forum at the moment but I will be working on making a tracker for another torrent site. As far as alternatives go, I like ISOhunt. They are canadian based show other tracker stats for individual torrents.
sharing is caring
sharing is caring
Posted by calebjonasson on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:25 pm
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