The Pirate Bay will be back. They just had their load balancer taken out. All this doom and gloom about how the TPB is gone for good is ridiculous. It's a cash cow, it's not going to go away anytime soon.<p>I knew something was wrong with TPB before it was announced that it was raided and subsequently taken down. I noticed an uptick in in sessions on google analytics for my movie meta-torrent search engine <a href="https://moviemagnet.net" rel="nofollow">https://moviemagnet.net</a>
Maybe I'm saying something stupid, but couldn't the pirate bay be distributed as a torrent that is continually updated, and then you have a torrent client that can search the database?
It's kind of confusing, they make it sound like a snapshot of TPB before it was raided, but it actually contains very recent torrents that weren't yet available when TPB went down.
TPB was/is blocked at ISP level in our country (UK). These sorts of mirrors of course aren't. So there's some Streisand Effect going on here in that more mirrors are being publicised because of the take down basically making it easier for people in the UK to find TPB content than it was last week.<p>Personally I don't use the site however.
The next 'Pirate Bay' will likely be on a decentralized storage network like Storj, rather than rely on a single point of failure. Much more robust.
Powered by Isohunt? Now that's interesting!<p>Have to agree about the old database, and the search ain't all that accurate. But still, nice finding.
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becomes-raid-proof-121017/" rel="nofollow">https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becom...</a><p>Sooo, I guess it wasn't "virtually invulnerable to police raids".
This is good, no ads. Anyone can share files but if you don't have ads you can't scale and if you are making money by having ads you become a target.