Pirate Bay is offline 12-11-2014, 10:42 PM
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The Pirate Bay, the infamous file-sharing page that calls itself the ‘galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site’, was taken down last night. It wasn’t the first time, and the way that the site is built means that it probably won’t be the last.
But even if the owners of the site are unable to get it back up, its architecture means that the site could be able to be restored by anybody else. The Pirate Bay is simply an index of magnet links — files that give instructions to torrent programs about where to download files from — meaning that it is lightweight in terms of files and data, despite the huge amount of films, music and TV that are stored there.
Even The Pirate Bay itself was available as a download on The Pirate Bay — a backup of the whole site that any user could download (any many did). That means that any user who has the files could restore them to new domains and servers, reviving the site. All of the torrent files that were stored at The Pirate Bay are submitted by users, so as soon as a site was revived and running, it could start filling back up with new content. Those backups are still available through more convoluted routes, meaning that versions of The Pirate Bay exist across the internet — if people want to take the risk, and host them.
That threat might be enough to keep copycat sites down, especially in the context of increasingly strong statements from police and copyright enforcement authorities, such as last night’s raid. But even if the site can’t be restored, or just isn’t, sites are likely to spring up in its place. Many of the web’s most popular file-sharing and torrenting sites remain online.
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But even if the owners of the site are unable to get it back up, its architecture means that the site could be able to be restored by anybody else. The Pirate Bay is simply an index of magnet links — files that give instructions to torrent programs about where to download files from — meaning that it is lightweight in terms of files and data, despite the huge amount of films, music and TV that are stored there.
Even The Pirate Bay itself was available as a download on The Pirate Bay — a backup of the whole site that any user could download (any many did). That means that any user who has the files could restore them to new domains and servers, reviving the site. All of the torrent files that were stored at The Pirate Bay are submitted by users, so as soon as a site was revived and running, it could start filling back up with new content. Those backups are still available through more convoluted routes, meaning that versions of The Pirate Bay exist across the internet — if people want to take the risk, and host them.
That threat might be enough to keep copycat sites down, especially in the context of increasingly strong statements from police and copyright enforcement authorities, such as last night’s raid. But even if the site can’t be restored, or just isn’t, sites are likely to spring up in its place. Many of the web’s most popular file-sharing and torrenting sites remain online.
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