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Ahem. by TubeSteak · 2013-01-10 07:39 · Score: 3, Informative · on Early Pirate Bay Server Immortalized In Museum

The Pirate Bay has become a contemporary historical phenomenon, due to its distinguished position in the file-sharing debate

The Pirate Bay has become a contemporary historical phenomenon, due to its distinguished position as the last man standing.
Before TPB, there was SuprNova (TPB's forums are still hosted @ https://forum.suprbay.org/ )
and before SuprNova there were several other sites that were central to the bittorrent community.

Some of TPB's contemporaries are still around, they're just not as vocal in their fight against the existing copyright regime.

Re:No torrent, no download by Cito · 2011-08-30 05:34 · Score: 1 · on The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit With BayFiles

Piratebay guys aren't doing this to be legit.

it's easier to pirate and no worry of antip2p scraping the torrent for ip's

now it's like megaupload who is huge in the pirate business

for example

Icefilms moved over to an all megaupload solution http://www.icefilms.info/

Thor http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IUBDT2GZ

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K3VZ3O80

Whistleblower http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JV45BJ01

Now using megaupload it's harder and no 3rd party antip2p scraper is going to get your ip address. Megaupload supposedly doesn't keep their logs of what ip downloads what. So if they get a dmca request, they remove the file. But there is a script called RapidLeech: http://www.rapidleech.com/

Rapidleech automatically puts the file back in place from remote sites as a link dies.

usually much handier for pirates since don't have to worry with peerblock, antip2p lists keeping updated and 3rd party antip2p companies sniffing ip's from torrent swarms.

So as they mention in the http://suprbay.org/ linked off piratebay's site. This way it's safer for the pirates, and since it's a direct download it will become a hell of a lot more safer. Since megaupload has been offering pirates the same thing for many years now. And rapidleech puts the files back as soon as they are removed.

Always check http://icefilms.info/ for link updates

Old news by Anonymous Coward · 2009-11-17 02:24 · Score: 3, Informative · on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table

As far as I know, the tracker has not been shut down but merely moved to OpenBitTorrent. There are various posts on SuprBay confirming that fact. The (PirateBay) trackers themselves were shut down since august and OpenBittorrent is now the official tracker. I remember reading another post where someone did some research and ran a few traces, which confirmed (at the time) that the trackers were running on the same IP address. Here is another post worth reading.

As for OpenBitTorrent, it has been 404-ing since I tried to open that website. However a google cache exists as early as November 14th. On the cached page it is explained that the tracker operates solely on the info hash and thus knows absolutely nothing about the contents itself. Presumably in an attempt to elude copyright cops. Adding new torrents to that tracker is as simple as adding the tracker address to your newly created .torrent file. The tracker will automatically start tracking the info hash when an announce is made.