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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:Are they? by sopssa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's no need to get into technical jargon about "md5 hashes of a file", ".torrent file just links to peers" in The Pirate Bay's case because it's so blatantly clear their main purpose is to enable users to spread copyrighted material.

  2. Re:Are they? by sopssa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The legality issue is not about DHT or torrents per se, it's about The Pirate Bay as a site. The underlying technology doesn't matter.

  3. Re:Still guilty by sopssa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They would be if they we're actively promoting it like The Pirate Bay, or something like setting up a DC++ hub called "All The Warez You Need". In that case they wouldn't be just a common carrier anymore, they would actively promote copyright infringement like The Pirate Bay clearly does.

  4. Re:Does this mean TPB will still be working? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The point being, I spend most of my disposable income on media of various sorts, but that doesn't mean I can afford everything I want - and if I can have it, why not? No one would be getting my money if I didn't 'steal' it, so the only person losing out would be me. The whole argument has been rendered redundant in my case by me not having a huge pile of cash to hand over in the first place.

    You may not have a large pile of cash, but you surely do have a small pile of cash. Do you buy anything that you watch/listen/read? Or do you apply your arguments to every item, and end up downloading everything, and buying nothing?