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Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay

Posted by Soulskill on from the we're-all-spartacus dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Not satisfied with merely launching The Old Pirate Bay, torrent site isoHunt today debuted The Open Bay, which lets anyone deploy their own version of The Pirate Bay online. This is achieved via a new six-step wizard, which the group says requires you to be somewhat tech-savvy and have "minimal knowledge of how the Internet and websites work." The Pirate Bay, the most popular file sharing website on the planet, went down last week following police raids on its data center in Sweden. As we've noted before, The Old Pirate Bay appears to be the best alternative at the moment, but since The Pirate Bay team doesn't know if it's coming back yet, there is still a huge hole left to be filled.

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  1. Why not decentralized ? by Lennie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why would you create many centralized points if you can create a decentralized system ?

    They worked more than 9 years on Tribler might as well start using it, right ?:
    http://www.tribler.org/
    https://github.com/Tribler/tri...

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    New things are always on the horizon
  2. Hole to be filled? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Has no one heard of kickasstorrents? [kat.ph]

  3. The next big thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    It seems that KickassTorrents is the new main site people are moving to.

  4. The Pirate Bay from Partido Pirata Argentina by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    We are working (at the Pirate Party of Argentina) on getting a complete backup of The Pirate Bay and getting it back without ads, free and for free. We have comments til february 2013, descriptions til june 2013 and torrents/titles til september 2014, you can help us scrapping a piece of the missing torrents. \n \nThe source code and tools for loading the backups and scrapping TPB as well as getting a copy of this site up and running is available on https://github.com/piratas-ar/piratesbey