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TorrentFreak Interviews The Pirate Bay Staff, As the Torrent Website Celebrates 13th Anniversary (torrentfreak.com)
For most people out there, The Pirate Bay has been their on and off go to source for torrents. The website this month celebrates its 13th anniversary. TorrentFreak spoke with several crew members of the "world's most resilient torrent site" this week. Here's an excerpt of the conversation:While they are not happy with the circumstances, they do say that the site has an important role to fulfil in the torrent community. "TPB is as important today as it was yesterday, and its role in being the galaxy's most resilient torrent site will continue for the foreseeable future," Spud17 says. "Sure, TPB has its flaws and glitches but it's still the go-to site for all our media needs, and I can see TPB still being around in 20 or 30 years time, even if the technology changes," she adds. Veteran TPB-crew member Xe agrees that TPB isn't perfect but points to the site's resilience as a crucial factor that's particularly important today. "TPB ain't perfect. There are plenty of things wrong with it, but it is simple, steadfast and true," Xe tells TorrentFreak. "So it's no real surprise that it is once more the destination of choice or that it has survived for so long in spite of the inevitable turnover of crew." And resilient it is. Thirteen years after the site came online, The Pirate Bay is the "King of Torrents" once again.
It's nice to see TPB acting as the municpal supply!
Nowt wrong with tap water!
What are the chances that the discussion here will focus on the Pirate Bay's remarkable resilience and not devolve in 3 minutes into a pro/anti piracy collection of rants?
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
Democrats and republicans!
Religion and businessmen!
... and increasing encryption. All encryption and walled garden hardware need to do is make it ridiculously expensive enough to delay crackers. Companies are researching encrypted computing where your files are completely locked away so that you can't easily make duplicates all it needs to do delay.
Pirate bay will be made increasingly irrelevant by advances in file encryption.
Which is sad, the Torrent technology has a lot of promise, being that it was mostly used for pirated media gives it a bad name, where many ISP just will block it.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Is it still legit and not an FBI honeypot? That's what a lot of people have been wondering since the strange happenings of the last takedown attempt.
Good porn, like stuff I haven't seen before?
ANNIVERSARY ANNIVERSARY WINDOWS 10... etc
"Ask Slashdot: What torrent sites do YOU use?"
Fucking bait stories, side-bait stories, side-busts, and other various lies.
You should all know that if you hit Cloudflare captchas, it is tracked and monitored by the US Government. FBI just like this site is now.
To use TPB you have to use javascript unless you use a magnet now. If you enable javascript you are tracked. It switches from thepiratebay.se to thepiratebay.org too. The vast majority of TPB mirrors and proxies also go through Cloudflare.
All honeypot, just like Slashpot now. As I enter this into the comment field I see a comment that says
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Would be FBI give a shit? I don't think they would bother with individual downloaders.
Anyway, the site is being watched by far too many people, and any malware injected would be quickly spotted and dissected.
Tying this story about TorrentFreak seems really smart and FBI thought it was clever to mention a different "Anniversary" than Windows 10 Anniversary... really this is just a fishing story.
FBI you bring drugs into USA, you brought in most of the cocaine in the 90's that was turned into crack. There are adult crack babies now that the tax payers are paying to incarcerate. You distribute child porn. You still bring in drugs. You are also part of the NWO/9-11-2001 plot.
Treason mother fuckers. Die here die there die everywhere.
The world would be a better place if you committed suicide. Do it. Do it, faggot.
Please explain. How would TPB be a honeypot? The only files they offer for download are torrent files, which in and of themselves, aren't illegal. So why would the FBI or anyone else make it a honeypot? What would they learn about the users from that?
Aargh!
I'm here for the experience, not the Hyperbole.
Torrent technology had a single niche. People who needed to:
1. Distribute tons of data.
2. Do so on a zero or near-zero budget, otherwise they'd just use a conventional HTTP server or CDN.
There are not many groups who fit both those criteria. Pirates, and linux distros. Both use torrents.
Well, that took longer than I thought, but there it is.
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
Come now, he claims to have started a Swedish trend with his neckbeard. You don't have to be a Scientologist to see that his facial hair is fair game.
So that article was just about how they still Kickass ?
It would be a great way to distribute all kinds of content, software, streaming media. Unfortunately the imaginary property Mafia has successfully criminalized the technology. The same thing happened with ed2k/kademlia, also a very promising technology killed by a medieval guild.