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Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table

Posted by timothy on from the look-at-our-semi-clean-hands dept.

think_nix writes "The Pirate Bay has shut down their BitTorrent tracker. Instead TPB is now using Distributed Hash Table to distribute the torrents. The Pirate Bay Blog states that DHT along with PEX (Peer Exchange) Technology is just as effective if not better for finding peers than a centralized service. The Local reports that shutting down the tracker and implementing DHT & PEX could be due to the latest court rulings in Sweden against 2 of TPB's owners, and may decide the outcome of the case."

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  1. Re:Does this mean TPB will still be working? by sopssa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, it is not. You cannot circumvent laws with technical bullshit, atleast not in nordic countries and probably elsewhere in Europe too, because intention counts in courts aswell. If it is as clear as The Pirate Bay is and how they handled to all the DMCA requests (even if theres no such law in sweden, but common sense works long way), judges are going to see whats going on and punish for it. You cannot get around that with technical reasonings like "but we dont host the files, we just provide .torrent files". And before anyone jumps on the "but then Google should be sued and shutdown too" bullshit, everyone can see the difference between TPB and Google.