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

Posted by timothy on from the triple-digits dept.

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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  1. But the comments are gone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    1. Re:But the comments are gone by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    2. Re:But the comments are gone by rebelwarlock · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sounds to me like 20% of comments were actually useful, which is probably a world record.

  2. And thus... by AnotherAnonymousUser · · Score: 2

    The Golden Path endures.

  3. Re:Distributed DNS by xaotikdesigns · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I wouldn't mind having a million of them available, but they would need to be able to download or distribute each others databases.

    It doesn't matter many there are if each of them only has one episode of the show that I want to watch. I don't believe that they are going to be updating the datase that they provide, so my new TPB won't have anything that was uploaded to your new TPB, which also doesn't have anything that was uploaded to Bob's TPB...

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  4. The Pirate Bay Made Money Thru Advertising by TrollstonButterbeans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:The Pirate Bay Made Money Thru Advertising by houghi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

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  5. Willing to go the distence? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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...

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  6. Better: distributed search by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 2

    Improved methods of accessing some centralized torrent database (even if one of many)... bleh.

    Better is to take the centralized anything out of the equation. Let peers search among each other what's out there. @ That point all you need is a small list of peers to start with, and you're good to go.

    If I'm correct that is what Tribler is meant to achieve (plz... can someone get it into Debian repositories! :-). But I'm sure more research & software projects will move in that direction.

  7. Torrent database dump by basecastula+ · · Score: 2

    So with database available, can I finally make my reseeder utility that connects all my previously downloaded content with the torrent it came from? Does anybody else have the desire for such a tool? It would save me soo much time not searching and reconnecting torrents to folders.