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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."
MAKE them shut down the entire internet to stop signal.
Careful what you wish for.
My fear is one day the selfish cowards here on /. and elsewhere who pirate everything will look back on the freedoms they used to have on the internet and realize that they are the reason for its destruction.
And I will have a hollow victory in saying "told you so". Hollow, because you'll have ruined it for those of us who aren't cheap bastards. Thanks for nothing, parasites.
I don't support piracy at all,
Fuck off, limpwrist. Mommy has a teet for you to suckle.
...how do they work?
They don't work, they just lie around all day pulling their dicks, and waiting for their mother to go to work so they can creep out of the basement, and wash her crack pipe with acetone for their evening hit before heading out for an evening of sniffing panties and crawling through rubbish bins. Just like you really.