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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:Distributed Post! by Sancho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You people are what is wrong with Slashdot (and lots of other community-driven sites) these days.