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The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files
An anonymous reader tips news that The Pirate Bay is making a move away from .torrent files in favor of 'magnet links.' On Thursday the site made magnet links the default, and TorrentFreak reports that they'll stop serving .torrent files altogether in about a month.
"The announcement is bound to lead to confusion and uncertainty among many torrent users, but in reality very little will change for the average Pirate Bay visitor. Users will still be able to download files, but these will now be started through a magnet link instead of a .torrent file. The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak that one of the advantages of the transition to a 'magnet site' is that it requires relatively little bandwidth to host a proxy. This is topical, since this week courts in both Finland and the Netherlands ordered local Internet providers to block the torrent site. Perhaps even better, without the torrent files everyone can soon host a full copy of The Pirate Bay on a USB thumb drive, which may come in handy in the future."
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life must be very hard indeed, if, in the course of downloading films and music without paying the creators, you accidentally have to watch an advertisement. how can you survive? what gives you hope? how do you wake up in the morning and face each day? knowing that somewhere out there, there might be ads, RIGHT NEXT to your magnet links, just waiting for you to accidentally click the wrong thing.
surely there is something we, as Americans, can do about this horrible problem. maybe if we all wrote our congressmen...
Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds? That you think it makes sense to have to chop up the latest HD content into 4GB chunks because of a 30 year old file system.
I think it's time to retire your DOS PC.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.