The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit With BayFiles

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @02:15AM from the now-with-90%-less-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The founders of The Pirate Bay, possibly the best-known BitTorrent tracking service in existence, are going legit with a new file-sharing site which they claim will adhere to all copyright rules and takedown requests. BayFiles, as the new service is named, isn't BitTorrent powered. Instead, the site borrows its method of operation from the likes of Megaupload and RapidShare: a user selects a file and uploads it to the site via their web browser, after which it becomes available for anyone to download, assuming they have the link."

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Re:Huh... by TarMil · 2011-08-30 02:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Nah, that's the protocol. The method is GET.
Re:Hey, worked for Napster by isorox · 2011-08-30 02:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Nap... whatnow?
Face it, no filesharing service survives "going legit".
Napster was that company founded by Justin Timberlake
BayFiles by The+Living+Fractal · 2011-08-30 03:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Then I shall have to make a webcrawler for it, and I shall have to call it BayWatch. Surely that name is available?

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