Pirate Bay, RIP?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Your worst fears about The Pirate Bay acquisition (http://gizmodo.com/5304354/pirate-bay-bought-out-suddenly-respects-copyrights) might be coming true: Peter Sunde told Torrent Freak (http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-closes-its-tracker-removes-torrents-090630/) that they are indeed closing down TPB's tracker and decentralizing to the point listed torrents won't be hosted on the site anymore. There's an update at the end of the post from Global Gaming Factory X CTO Johan Sellström that's as bizarrely worded (http://gizmodo.com/5304354/pirate-bay-bought-out-suddenly-respects-copyrights) and unclear as their original announcement and press release, so who knows what it really means:


"We had discussed closing it down initially so I think that's why he said so. The plan is to use technology from Peerialism that makes bandwidth utilization more efficient and then it would not make sense to shut it down. Peerialism will modify the tracker but it will be backwards compatible. But all this is subject to change if for some reason it would not work. It is our ambition to do so. So, um, if their new thing doesn't work, then they'll shut it down? Ooookay.
The idea, Sunde said, is that The Pirate Bay (http://gizmodo.com/tag/the-pirate-bay/) will live on whatever happens—but would shutting down the tracker and scattering to the wind be really living? I think not. I also think it's gonna take a few days to figure out what the hell is really happening.
Possibly unrelated, but The Pirate Bay (http://gizmodo.com/tag/the-pirate-bay/) is down at the moment.


http://gizmodo.com/5304538/is-the-pirate-bay-actually-dead

[lefty]

Mininova is going to join the Dinosaurs too

[Borosai]

Yeah, it's as good as dead. Even if they continue the "service," I won't use it. I already removed it from my bookmarks, leaving mininova and torrentz. Something else will pop up eventually.

[ChumpDumper]

I was switching between TPB and isohunt most of the time, so I guess I'll just find another.

[sabar]

The world will go on. I shared files before 2003 (Pirate Bay first popped up) and I'll do it after 2009.

[Heath Ledger]

I like the upload sites much better anyway. like megaupload.com etc. they are much faster and a lot safer to use than torrents.

[leemajors]

never really used it. giganews ftw.

[MannyIsGod]

private trackers ftw.

I do use mininova for music though.