In the last 8 years the pirate bay hasn't changed? It went open source and embraced magnet links entirely. Making it so that almost nothing was being hosted on the server itself. You can download the entire pirate bay in 90MB to put one up of your own. There are hundreds of pirate bays all over the world running on almost nothing allowing everyone to download the same things at the same speeds.<p>[edit: It didn't go open source.]<p>To suggest the pirate bay hasn't done anything is just lame. Not as lame as sending 20 something's to jail over it but getting there.<p>The ads were because of legal defence fees, which can be huge.
Can anybody explain what's the fuzz regarding pirate bay? I mean, there are tons of good torrent sites and search engines everybody use every day... I don't even remember when I last time used TPB...
This article doesn't get the point. It's old, doesn't change, conservative and outdated? Stop using it.<p>The big problem is that TPB was taken offline not because it was buggy but because helped people copyrighted content.
How hard would it be to build a distributed hosting system for all the torrents ever on Piratebay ?<p>Considering how one poster here says that all of the torrents upto 2013 fit into 90 MB , its quite feasible. It could tunnel over TOR to make tracking things a little more difficult.
I was kind of expecting them to build fully distributed system. But I got really disappointed when they claimed that "reverse proxy" / "load balancing" is latest in distributed systems.
I reckon the next big torrent site will be KickAss torrents @ kat.ph. Shame to see the guys behind TPB disenfranchised - they've earned it I guess from all the stress they've endured.
umm.... this works: <a href="https://thepiratebay.cr/" rel="nofollow">https://thepiratebay.cr/</a><p>Or is this not the "original" TPB?