The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week

An anonymous reader writes isoHunt, the group now best known for launching The Old Pirate Bay, has shared an update a week after debuting The Open Bay. The Pirate Bay, the most popular file sharing website on the planet, still isn't back following police raids on its data center in Sweden, but its "cause" is very much alive. So far, 372 "copies" of The Pirate Bay have been created thanks to the project. The torrent database dump, which combines content from isoHunt, KickassTorrents (via its public API), and The Old Pirate Bay, has seen 1,256 downloads to date.

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But the comments are gone

[Anonymous Coward]

Sometimes they told people whether the material would work, had malware, or what to do to get it to work.

Re:But the comments are gone

[houstonbofh]

This right here. Finding torrents is easy. Find torrents that are not crap is a bit harder.

The Pirate Bay Made Money Thru Advertising

[TrollstonButterbeans]

They maintained the site. Kept it operational. Improved it occasionally. Made sure it was up. They made some money from advertising, helped cover their expenses and then some. They actually made a profit.

Profit was a motivating factor for The Pirate Bay to provide a relatively reliable service!

What is the purpose of 372 or 5,570,549 unmaintained garbage mirrors of a possibly dead site?

Having a mirror requires almost no skill and there is no motivation to maintain it, improve it and no financial incentive as "Open Bay" is "Open Source".

Is this an achievement? The news article is from VentureBeat.com, and I bet those venture capitalists are just swarming to get a piece of the action? Err. No.

And the mirrors are basically useless.

But this should be celebrated because --- well --- it is sticking it to the megacorps! At least in a your imagination, if that is your dream.

Many of these stillborn mirrors will evaporate as soon as the hoster loses interest, which means by next Monday.

Re:The Pirate Bay Made Money Thru Advertising

[houghi]

Sure, many will evaporate. Probably the majority and you could even say 'almost all'. But even if it only two remain, it is double the amount.

And others will step in its place and improve on TPB. I never thought TPB was a good site. I like KickAss much better.

And I realy like how you try to use "Open Source" as an excuse not to make money.
1) Other sites might include adds
2) It ican be used as a basis for something better
3) For many people it is not about the money. Money might just be something that comes later.

Willing to go the distence?

[Frosty Piss]

So, with TOR basically compromised, are you willing to personally take on the "rights holders" and their lawyers? Think they will not knock on your door and explaine that the assholes that make the laws are willing to grind you into the dirt?

Go for it. As for me? I haven't seen a movie in years that's worth it...

I know, it's a cop-out.

Reality and all...

Re:The worst of Slashdot commenters

[DiamondGeezer]

1.) It's not theft.... more like counterfeiting but even that doesn't quite fit.

Call it theft. Call it counterfeiting. But please just call it what it is. Crime.

2.) Digital piracy has been with us as long as digital electronics. And distribution systems as long as the Hayes SmartModem. PirateBay isn't unique. There's plenty of other alternatives out there. The PirateBay raid also had no serious measurable impact on worldwide piracy. And most likely, they'll be back. Probably with something more distributed.

Call it theft. Call it counterfeiting. But please just call it what it is. Crime.

3.) Are you seriously arguing the folks who wrote the initial FTP client and server "enabled thieves" by not building in rigorous rights-violating DRM from the onset? DRM and BS like it violate the rights of many to preserve the rights of a handful of people. Most of them already pretty well off. It also makes preservation of creative works much harder later on down the road. And in the end, every scheme is broken if there's enough interest in breaking it so it's all wasted effort and money anyway.

No I'm not. I'm also not claiming that Norton Commander enabled theft either.

DRM wouldn't need to exist if there weren't freetards who think that they are entitled to other people's stuff without paying for it.

Oh and nobody makes a claim that it amounts to "the preservation of digital works" unless they are deluded enough feel entitled to rip it off for the sake of future generations.

Call it what it is. Theft. Counterfeiting. But lets call it crime.

And let's not pretend there are innocent motives for replicating TPB because they're aren't any. The desperate reasoning of basement dwellers to get other people's stuff without paying for it looks and smells like the bullshit it is.