they were going to develop a new p2p protocol for anonymous filesharing I don't remember they planned to roll their own. I do know that they advocate Tribler,

they were going to develop a new p2p protocol for anonymous filesharing I don't remember they planned to roll their own. I do know that they advocate Tribler, maybe that's what you heard about. It makes tracker sites such as TPB redundant as the whole database is stored in decentralized form.