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TPB only serves torrent text info and magnet links, encrypted, so to cloud providers, it will look like any other site but whose data it cannot read. It is not
by Achshar 14y ago
TPB only serves torrent text info and magnet links, encrypted, so to cloud providers, it will look like any other site but whose data it cannot read. It is not impossible however, for example, they can use a few workarounds, like making a lot of requests for a specific page of TPB and then monitor the call spikes in their system but that requires for the providers to be aware that at least one of their VMs are hosting TPB. TPB does not even have a tracker now, so no obscure network traffic that makes torrents easy to spot because there are no torrents involved at all.
As for the second point, yes, much like youtube's approach, they can give law enforcement agency access to all VMs but again, they must know what cloud provider is hosting the site at any given moment.