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.

Re:But the comments are gone

[rebelwarlock]

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

Re:Distributed DNS

[xaotikdesigns]

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...

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 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.