The Pirate Bay Will Decentralize Its Operations - GoFuckYourself.com

Aussie Rebel · 06-30-2009, 11:58 AM

I remember this "The Pirate Bay Will Never Be Shutdown" being posted so many times over the years here. I guess they were wrong

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The Pirate Bay Will Decentralize Its Operations

Alongside the news that The Pirate Bay will sell shares on the Swedish stock market come some other significant changes. The site itself will decentralize and stop hosting and tracking torrents. Instead, The Pirate Bay will use a third party tracker and torrent hosting service to serve its users.

pirate bayEarlier today The Pirate Bay announced that it would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) who are listed on the Swedish stock market. So, Pirate Bay users can not only share files but they can buy a share of the site as well.

Perhaps even more significant for the BitTorrent community is the thus far unreported decision to close down the BitTorrent tracker. Up until today Pirate Bay?s public tracker connected more than half of all BitTorrent users but this is about to change.

Pirate Bay?s Peter Sunde has informed TorrentFreak that the site will soon decentralize and stop running a BitTorrent tracker of its own. Instead they will encourage their users to use a yet to be launched third party tracker for their torrents.

To decentralize even further, the torrents that will be listed on the site wont be hosted on The Pirate Bay?s servers anymore. In the near future the site will use a new torrent hosting service that will store the torrents for them. This new hosting service will be open to other torrent sites as well and can be accessed through an API.

In the end The Pirate Bay is making these changes to ensure that the BitTorrent ecosystem stays intact no matter what happens, Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak. By decentralizing the different aspects they hope that BitTorrent users will be less reliant on the uptime of The Pirate Bay?s servers alone. The burden will now be spread among several independently operated services.

For now it remains a mystery what GGF CEO Hans Pandeya meant with ?We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site.? That?s worrying to say the least.

In addition, GGF also acquired Peerialism who apparently have developed a new P2P distribution technology which will be used on The Pirate Bay. How this related to the new tracker and external torrent hosting remains unknown.

We?re trying to get confirmation and more details from GGF as soon as possible.

Update: According to Johan Sellström, the CTO of Global Gaming Factory, the plans have changed after Peter Sunde talked to us. ?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,? he said, adding. ?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.?

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-b...rrents-090630/

notime · 06-30-2009, 12:01 PM

that's correct

rowan · 06-30-2009, 01:01 PM

Hmm, well stocks are one thing you can't download for free. :D

seeandsee · 06-30-2009, 01:01 PM

they got ass kicked

TheDoc · 06-30-2009, 01:16 PM

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Snake Doctor · 06-30-2009, 01:20 PM

I wonder if Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau...errrrrr......Robbie and Gideongallery will be in here arguing about this soon?

$5 submissions · 06-30-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

I wonder if Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau...errrrrr......Robbie and Gideongallery will be in here arguing about this soon?

The "Odd Couple" was an awesome movie and play.

Davy · 06-30-2009, 02:00 PM

The Piratebay = bunch of homos.

fris · 06-30-2009, 02:26 PM

they have over 3.7 million users registered, they should be sending out a mass email to a free email porn signup program :p

brassmonkey · 06-30-2009, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Davy

The Piratebay = bunch of homos.

V_RocKs · 07-01-2009, 12:50 AM

Crazy shits.

Raf1 · 07-01-2009, 01:04 AM

shit happens

Spudstr · 07-01-2009, 05:30 AM

What better way to end piracy? Buy the problem and drive it into the ground.

ExLust · 07-01-2009, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by fris

they have over 3.7 million users registered, they should be sending out a mass email to a free email porn signup program :p

I like when it happens.

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