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Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay
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.
I think one of the most valuable features of the old pirate bay was its reputation system.
To be able to tell between a (relatively) trusted contributor and a virus uploader.
How can you duplicate that on a pirate bay clone.
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...
New things are always on the horizon
Has no one heard of kickasstorrents? [kat.ph]
You've obviously never watched porn.
I guess Open Bay sites could associate reputation with an OpenID identifier, public key, or other identifier that remains constant from site to site. Have there been attacks on the Advogato trust metric yet?
I wonder how hard it'd be to take The Open Bay and turn it into a "LegitTorrent" site centered around works under a Creative Commons license or other licenses for free cultural works. Such a site would promptly respond to OCILLA notices to help discover uploaders that have been engaging in license laundering.
Soon, The Pirate Bay will be a torrent on The Pirate Bay.
The next step will be to build a torrent site that will host all the torrent sites that don't host themselves.
The next step will be to build a torrent site that will host all the torrent sites that don't host themselves.
Plus a mirror of a few of the torrent sites that do host themselves, for added protection against both hardware failure and paradoxes.
Challenge accepted.
After looking at some of the older links I had to the Original Pirate Bay, I noticed that there is a redirect in place from some of them.
It points to This Site: http://thepiratebay.com.ua/
Not sure if this is official, or simply someone managing to make a play for the domain, but I thought it was interesting that there are folks redirecting traffic to their websites already.
Is this becoming more common, or is TPB in danger of becoming co-opted?
Two AC's posting about 'the torrent site that everyone is going to' ... yup... I totally want to go there for all of my entertainment media needs ... AC has never steered me wrong before.
In death, The Pirate Bay will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
until it got popular then the media companies would sue oh behalf of the starving artists as your free music is making them poor now.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
When Napster fell there were lots of alternatives for peer-to-peer file sharing to fill the vacuum but The Next Big Thing was torrents. Maybe Tribler will be The Next Big Think and replace centralized torrent aggregators.
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.
Well said citizen. Keep standing in line and be afraid to question authority.
A few hours to get up, a few minutes to be sued into financial ruin.
Seriously, starting up the site is the easy part. Dealing with traffic is an issue, but not getting sued into oblivion is probably more of a concern, as it has been the fate of many once-popular filesharing sites. Even TPB never solved that particular issue.
At this point, a decentralized client with built-in encryption - maybe something that hooks into TOR - would probably be a better bet for people that want to engage in such activities.
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
A few years ago, I missed the opportunity to see a show live. I tried and tried to watch it legitimately online. I was signing up for memberships and had my trusty credit card in hand, but it was impossible. After a couple days of trying to give someone money to see what most people had seen for free, I became angry with the system and decided to quit trying to follow what were obviously flawed rules. I downloaded what I wanted in minutes.
Up until then, I'd never used bittorrent for anything illegal. I used it for getting Debian and I was impressed with how well it worked, but considered it exactly the wrong method for copyright infringment because it isn't anonymous. Fast forward to now, and I pay monthly fees to get a VPN to countries where the laws are different and watch what I want when I want with no BS.
I'd rather pay monthly fees to watch what I want (and Netflix and Amazon help) but if I can't, I'll pirate. If you refuse to allow someone to pay you for copies of the thing you're getting special protection to sell copies of, (which is all copyright is) then it is moral and should be legal to copy without permission.
Let me repeat this logic more clearly:
Visit the site and the first thing you'll notice is that it's referencing facebook connect. twitter and google analytics.
How can one trust this source if their goal is to track your online activity in the first place?
Meh torrents are gonna go the way of emule, the future is media streaming sites hosted in dontgiveafuckistan.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Because it only takes one blockbuster renamed as a Linux distro to give them grounds for a lawsuit.
Against the uploader of the torrent, not against the site. OCILLA shields compliant providers from liability for uploaders' actions.
How can I avoid "consum[ing] that slop" if grocery stores play proprietary music over their speaker system, the royalties for which come out of the price of the groceries I buy?