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Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown
Several sources are discussing the recent attempted shutdown of The Pirate Bay by Swedish authorities. It seems that following the recent court defeats and the pending civil actions, Swedish authorities threatened TPB's main bandwidth supplier with a hefty fine in order to get them shut down. Not surprisingly TPB has relocated and is back online although the tracker still seems to be down. As a gesture of their "appreciation" TPB plans on sending a mocking t-shirt to the people believed responsible for the takedown attempt.
Decentralize what?
Someone somewhere makes a torrent, and uploads it somewhere.
You can't get away from that.
There's always someone to go after.
If you're talking about just getting away from the idea of using a large site for searching and using a large tracker, then...
If you completely decentralize torrent posting, then you're never going to get shit distributed, and you'll fail.
No one wants to play 6 degrees of find that torrent, and no one wants to maintain lists of IPs to add as peers.