Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 19, 2014 @04:43AM 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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Re:The Legit Bay by jones_supa · 2014-12-19 05:11 · Score: 3, Insightful

That would certainly be an exciting idea! A website about true sharing of free culture and entertainment. Sign me up.
Re:Hole to be filled? by oldmac31310 · 2014-12-19 05:33 · Score: 1, Insightful

shhh!

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Re:The Legit Bay by tepples · 2014-12-19 05:45 · Score: 1, Insightful

I don't see how Creative Commons is so boring for artists practicing their craft in part by remixing other artists' work.
Malware bay by ruir · 2014-12-19 06:32 · Score: 3, Insightful

The highlights of (old) pirate bay were the reputation as some already said, AND the user comments about the download. Without that, the usefulness of having the torrents replicated is so much less useful.