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ThePirateBay.se Should Put Magnet Links in Meta Descriptions
After The Pirate Bay got banned by major ISPs in the U.K. I was thinking about how they might help users circumvent the block.
Seeing as the site still appears in Google, Google is essentially hosting a copy of The Pirate Bay in it's cache available for all UK users (http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.thepiratebay.se). Which makes you wonder why they don't ban Google and other search engines. That aside...
I think this would be an interesting experiment - if The Pirate Bay put direct torrent links in their meta descriptions, they would likely start appearing in Google.
That would then essentially make Google == The Pirate Bay. As all The Pirate Bay does anyway is host the torrent links and no actual content.
What are your thoughts?
- sp332 14y agoBy "torrent link" you mean the actual content of the magnet hash?
- jwblackwell 14y agoI have to admit I forgot they put they switched over to magnet entirely (I'm not actually that bigger torrent user). But yeah same effect - although links may need to be shortened - it wouldn't be hard to knock up a quick redirect service to make nice friendly short urls. They would then have extra space for number of seeders, leeches and any other descriptive info. *edited title
- sp332 14y agoBut if you don't have access to the site, why would it even help to have a different link? If the pirate bay is blocked, you still can't download the file.
- duedl0r 14y agoYou don't have to download anything. A magnet link is not connected to a file on the server.
- sp332 14y agoBut yeah same effect - although links may need to be shortened - it wouldn't be hard to knock up a quick redirect service to make nice friendly short urls. This is the part I don't understand. How does having a URL help?
- duedl0r 14y agohmm..maybe he thinks about a third party service to shorten the urls. I don't see an advantage in shorting urls, but IMHO the idea with magnet links inside google is great..