Goodnight, Sweet Prince. The Pirate Bay Tracker Goes Offline
Goodnight, Sweet Prince. The Pirate Bay Tracker Goes Offline
Posted 11/17/2009 at 11:15am
| by Paul Lilly
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It's been a wild and crazy six year run for the The Pirate Bay, the world's most popular torrent tracking site, but by all accounts, it looks as though TPB's founders are finally ready to quit sailing through legal waters and have decided to bring the torrent tracker to port.
"Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It's the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well," the ever-defiant Pirate Bay bandits wrote in a blog entry.
At its peak, TPB helped coordinate the downloads of more than 25 million peers, but it's no secret that many of those were illicit downloads for everything from pirated movies and television shows, to cracked videogames and closed-source operating systems, particularly Windows. Earlier this year, TPB's legal troubles culminated in a high profile court case in which a Swedish judge ultimately sentenced the torrent tracking site's four founders to a year in jail and ordered them to pay 30 million krono ($3.6 million) to a handful of entertainment companies.
But this might not be the last time Pirate Bay's founders make the headlines. According to TorrentFreak.com, the site's operators are talking with a handful of other BitTorrent site owners to encourage them to hang their hats on the torrent scene and instead switch to magent links and a decentralized system of handling tracking through Peer exchange (PEX).
"We're talking to the other torrent admins on doing magnet links and DHT+PEX for all sites. Moving away from torrents and trackers totally - like pick a date and all agree 'from this date, we'll not support torrents anymore," a Pirate Bay insider supposedly told TorrentFreak.
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shdwdragon7
November 27, 2009 at 2:57pm
MiniNova just dropped damn near everything too... http://mnstat.com/images/blog/index.html
Digital-Storm
November 17, 2009 at 7:37pm
And what people fail to realise is, TPB is not gone, its just not a tracker anymore. All the tracking is done by DHT which allows a torrent to still work and find peers even if the tracker goes down.
savage4naves
November 17, 2009 at 4:40pm
a part of me has slowly faded to nothing...I am crying inside
*on a side note the magnet links seem to work well with uTorrent
Download Complete
Inglourious Bastards
Dragon Age Origins
:)
JohnP
November 17, 2009 at 2:00pm
The link still works and there are new torrents there. Logo is gone but someone is still maintaining it. Demonoid may be down for the count even though they say otherwise.
bikerbub
November 17, 2009 at 1:09pm
the site itself is still up, they just only have magnet links now.
Who
November 17, 2009 at 12:16pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh the memories we shared late nights, watching lil bittorrents fly to and fro, I will miss these times with thee, also I've been cheating on you with every other imaginable tracker bai!
nekollx
November 17, 2009 at 1:00pm
as long as i can still get back ups of the softwere i bough but the cd is borked or my fansubs/dubs i don't really care how it's done.
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Phosphorous
November 17, 2009 at 1:59pm
HAHA, I love this one people always pull out of the hat. You probably don't even buy software. hahaha Way to try to CYOA though.
nekollx
November 17, 2009 at 3:43pm
*looks over at shelves od dvds and hundreds of dollars spent on them in my bank statement*
Yeah sure, we'll go with your theory.
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nekollx
November 18, 2009 at 10:54am
if that's what you belive, sure.
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