Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @01:52AM 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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Re:Does this mean TPB will still be working? by sopssa · 2009-11-17 02:42 · Score: -1, Troll

It's more like setting up a site called drugdealers.com where people post advertisements on where to buy drugs. You can defend your "but the site is only giving address where to buy drugs, I'm not selling any!" all you want, but it wont hold up in court.
Re:Does this mean TPB will still be working? by sexconker · 2009-11-17 05:24 · Score: 0, Troll

That is a bald-faced lie.