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IsoHunt Unofficially Resurrects the Pirate Bay
An anonymous reader writes: Torrent site isoHunt appears to have unofficially resurrected The Pirate Bay at oldpiratebay.org. At first glance, The Old Pirate Bay seems to be just a commemorative site for The Pirate Bay, which went down this week after police raided its data center in Sweden. Upon further inspection, however, it turns out the site is serving new content. This is much more than just a working archive of The Pirate Bay; it has a functioning search engine, all the old listings, and working magnet links.
And all is right with the world again.
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Anyone remember Suprnova? I have a t-shirt. Something new will come along, it always does.
So where are the dozens of mirrors spread across the world that they claimed to have?
EZTV is such an amazing site, it made keeping up with TV shows from all over the planet so easy. Far easier than any cable system, I use the fact of BBC 2-4, Sky, CBC, etc being completely unavailable to my cable market as a huge reason I don't want it. Their simple listing, single line sorted by seeding time, is pure genius. Only one torrent or maybe two for HD shows...I've been scrambling trying to put a spreadsheet together, trying to look up all the various channels EZTV had to find schedules in four different countries. And even that misses out on all the one-off documentaries...
Does anyone know of a site with listings like that? epguides.com has some grids, but is still lacking.
Then we must arrest every real estate agent on the planet!
.org? It will be down whiten a fort night.
If anyone needs me I will be over here with my usenet
And five more shall rise in its place.
Perhaps the authorities' well placed subversives are moving to entrap?
The site as operating has no matches for SPEData or any of the other Sony leaks. I know for a fact that SPEData (the initial file listings only) and spe_1 (HR, Marketing, and Sales) were both on The Pirate Bay but neither are available on IsoHunt's resurrection site. The backup they're using must be from prior to Thanksgiving at the very latest.
Also, if anyone has magnet links or hashes for the Sony leak files, maybe you could post those here.
That's a pale imitation of Isohunt from when the original got shut down. I doubt anything it does with The Pirate Bay will be any less pale.
distributing stolen property is a crime!
Copyright violation is not theft, you fucking imbecile.
Hope they don't shut it down. It's called google.com
Can you say hunny pot?
At first I thought the Swedish Police had shut down Michael Bay....
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
It is impossible to stop piracy. It's a waste of effort to even try.
This is going to evolve into a completely decentralized, encrypted tool going over common ports that will be easy to use. It can never be stopped.
I know it's cliche to bring up the whole information wants to be free argument, but it applies in this case. People want to share, the last 20 years have shown that, and since that need is far more frequent than the content owners need to greedily restrict their content, it will be dominant.
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
Download me some Natty Boh while you're at it.
That when a site goes down and someone else gains control of the domain, or sells its self as the new site it may just be the MPAA, or NSA, or FBI fronting?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Google has cached all of the magnet links from the pirate bay that I have searched for so far. Google seems do a really good job of providing a working archive of the pirate bay. Not sure how long that will last though.
The pirate bay served a purpose, but lets be real. It was and old, clunky, barely maintained eyesore that had so many bugs it's amazing that it actually worked properly. It should go down for good so that other sites which are better implemented can take over.
working magnet links
That's by definition. A magnet link is hash of the data, in this case a torrent file, not the file itself. TPB switched to magnet for new torrents in 2012 to save space and increase resiliency. Furthermore, torrent clients search for data in the DHT/PEX swarm instead of relying on trackers. TPB shut down its own tracker in 2009.
In short, The Pirate Bay will live on for as long as its users want it to.
Its an indexing service, with zero content, just like a thing called a 'phone book'.
And a phone book 'facilitates' phone calls, just like an ISP facilitates 'internet' - just like a bar facilitates drink driving and violence.
Google is OK, but a Swedish phone book is not. Or an education facilitates 'tax evasion'. And if a bill payment system used to purchase the 'internet' - or the banks or telcos - they have to be put in the dock too - for facilitation.
When the though police decide the brain 'facilitates' breathing, or when thinking 'facilitates' something alleged to illegal, we are on a very slippery slope indeed.
Which makes a joke out of the Swedish police, who now become a lackey of a new trans-border government agency set up right old wrongs and to right perceived wrongs, even if the wrong is in the future.
...getting unrepairable binaries of things
distributing stolen property is a crime!
Copyright violation is not theft, you fucking imbecile.
But it is interesting to see the discussions when it is GPL code or the CSS of a favorite site that is being copied and used against the license, then communities that usually say the above often change their tone on the subject.
distributing stolen property is a crime!
Copyright violation is not theft, you fucking imbecile.
But it is interesting to see the discussions when it is GPL code or the CSS of a favorite site that is being copied and used against the license, then communities that usually say the above often change their tone on the subject.
Ahhh, perspective. Thou art a cruel bitch.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
USA tries to force people out of their culture because almost all that USA exports is "culture", because...
I feel the problem is much deeper. The exported USA culture converts people to culturally Americans. And the exported USA economic education converts people to economically Americans. After this, it's necessary for Pentagon to occupy these countries since their people belong to USA culture and behave economically as loyal American people living in a barbaric country.
While the mafiaa makes this process profitable the torrent system just does the same.
And the last: while Marx's Capital is a scientific approximation of a real XIX-century capitalism both Leninism and Economics are not sciences but ideologies, i mean teachings about how the people SHOULD behave. While Leninism R.I.P. Economics lives. And it converts people's economical behavior as it's authors want.
There's a big difference between indexing files and distributing files.
And I think most people who write GPLed software know the difference.
oldpiratebay doesn't tell me the file types the way thepiratebay used to. Anyone know how to figure out the file type on oldpiratebay? The summary info where it says "Files: [x]" isn't a link and looking through the whole page, I don't see anywhere else it is listed.