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I know piracy is always rampant and for every site taken down there will be a new popping up, but the shut down of ISOHunt, Demonoid, even the PirateBay is only
by HaloZero 14y ago
I know piracy is always rampant and for every site taken down there will be a new popping up, but the shut down of ISOHunt, Demonoid, even the PirateBay is only offering magnet now seems to be taking a hit.
For those of who us who aren't active in the community, the sites that we used to find torrents is slowly diminishing, or at least the quality of the sites is diminishing.
- saurik 14y agoisoHunt is shut down? (I don't follow this stuff much, but I saw some of the people from isoHunt at DEFCON and the website still seems to be online; I could totally be misunderstanding the situation, though.)
- gsa 14y agoHaloZero could be referring to this news: https://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-forced-to-shut-down-in-the-u-s-100522/ https://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-forced-to-shut-down-in-the-...
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- rlt3 14y agoRather than being big, public, Wal-Mart-esque torrent sites (where one can find a little of everything), most sites are going the route of Private Trackers and only specializing in TV Shows, or Music, or whatever.
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- benologist 14y agoAlso mininova.org went legal, they're not technically dead but for piracy and for the overwhelming majority of their users who only wanted them for piracy they are.
- ZoFreX 14y agoPirateBay is using magnet URLs to make them near-impossible to shut down. It'll be interesting if more sites follow their footsteps.
- DrStalker 14y agoHow do magnet links make them harder to shutdown? Is there a significant legal benefit to them over torrent files, given that as a user the two options function nearly identically.
- vlad003 14y agoMagnet links take up much less space and it's much easier to mirror TPB
- ZoFreX 14y agoThey're using DHT, a "distributed hash table". Basically this means you can find "peers" (other people that have or want the data for a particular torrent) without needing a centralised tracker. This means if TPB goes down, everyone's torrents keep on working. Now the magnet links mean you don't even need to download a torrent file, you JUST need that magic hash, which uses the DHT to find the torrent metadata itself, as well as the data. Neat! All you need to disseminate data to other people is to give them that tiny hash, you don't even need a website for that - you could spray paint a QR code somewhere. The last part of the equation is that anyone can download a dump of The Pirate Bay to put up their own clone, so even if the canonical site does get taken down, all the torrents will live on.