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Download A Copy of The Pirate Bay Before It's Gone

35 points by ojbyrne 17y ago

chrischen 17y ago
21.3 gb... pfft, I download that in an hour EDIT: JK, please don't sue me
- profquail 17y ago
  Well, as long as there aren't any "Harry Potter" torrents in there, I think you will be fine.
  - Anon84 17y ago
    Wouldn't that be JKR? ;)
    - chrischen 17y ago
      Actually I think he is right, JK implies two proper nouns. I should have put "jk" or "just kidding."
      - aw3c2 17y ago
        The ladder, not everyone knows your favourite abbreviations. AIWJPTTPAP.
Anon84 17y ago
heh... I was hoping for a dump of their database. This is just a crawl containing basic info about each torrents.
- whughes 17y ago
  What info is in their database besides these torrents that would be valuable? They don't touch the actual files being shared. I doubt they log anything interesting; if they do, no one's ever going to see it. It would be a huge mistake for them to hand over visitor stats.
  - derefr 17y ago
    Well, you'd have to hit the trackers to pull all the current seed/leech ratio data yourself, if you want to find the living torrents amongst the muck. Things such as number of .torrent downloads, the "PirateBay-verified release" flag, and the comments (yes, there are comments) would also be useful in filtering through them. However, all this stuff would probably be invalidated by the time someone actually wanted to use the backup...
blhack 17y ago
Wouldn't all of the torrents be more-or-less useless without the tracker? And by "more-or-less", I mean "completely".
- ojbyrne 17y ago
  From the description on TPB: "Remember that all torrents from TPB now have the new tracker openbittorrent.com included, so they will continue to track even after the TPB tracker shuts down."
  - katamole 17y ago
    Even without that, DHT would help.
yread 17y ago
I was hoping to see the code not the torrents. sigh
- aw3c2 17y ago
  The tracker is open-source beerware: http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/ http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
movix 17y ago
Just found - The $675,000 Mixtape - while reading the background to this thread. There is something definitely amusing about their 'two fingers up' to authority attitude. http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090814/the-pirate-bay-still-hasnt-gone-legit-still-enjoys-poking-big-media-in-the-eye-how-to-get-a-675000-mixtape-for-free/ http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090814/the-pirate-bay-stil... Having lived through the 70's punk scene, (although it must be agreed that on the whole it was a pretty contrived marketing plan) and appreciated the youthful, anarchic energy of it, I sort of wonder why most young people (here in the UK) seem so incredibly conservative. Are they really Thatchers children, more concerned about brand identity and affiliation that turning the world on it's head? The Pirate Bay team seem to be 21st c. punks to me, even though I'm sure they see the $$$ at the end of the tunnel.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  For the 21st century punks go to London or Berlin, the punk scene is alive and well.

35 points by ojbyrne 17y ago

chrischen 17y ago

21.3 gb... pfft, I download that in an hour EDIT: JK, please don't sue me

profquail 17y ago
Well, as long as there aren't any "Harry Potter" torrents in there, I think you will be fine.
- Anon84 17y ago
  Wouldn't that be JKR? ;)
  - chrischen 17y ago
    Actually I think he is right, JK implies two proper nouns. I should have put "jk" or "just kidding."
    - aw3c2 17y ago
      The ladder, not everyone knows your favourite abbreviations. AIWJPTTPAP.

Anon84 17y ago

heh... I was hoping for a dump of their database. This is just a crawl containing basic info about each torrents.

whughes 17y ago
What info is in their database besides these torrents that would be valuable? They don't touch the actual files being shared. I doubt they log anything interesting; if they do, no one's ever going to see it. It would be a huge mistake for them to hand over visitor stats.
- derefr 17y ago
  Well, you'd have to hit the trackers to pull all the current seed/leech ratio data yourself, if you want to find the living torrents amongst the muck. Things such as number of .torrent downloads, the "PirateBay-verified release" flag, and the comments (yes, there are comments) would also be useful in filtering through them. However, all this stuff would probably be invalidated by the time someone actually wanted to use the backup...

blhack 17y ago

Wouldn't all of the torrents be more-or-less useless without the tracker? And by "more-or-less", I mean "completely".

ojbyrne 17y ago
From the description on TPB: "Remember that all torrents from TPB now have the new tracker openbittorrent.com included, so they will continue to track even after the TPB tracker shuts down."
- katamole 17y ago
  Even without that, DHT would help.

yread 17y ago

I was hoping to see the code not the torrents. sigh

aw3c2 17y ago
The tracker is open-source beerware: http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/ http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/

movix 17y ago

Just found - The $675,000 Mixtape - while reading the background to this thread. There is something definitely amusing about their 'two fingers up' to authority attitude. http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090814/the-pirate-bay-still-hasnt-gone-legit-still-enjoys-poking-big-media-in-the-eye-how-to-get-a-675000-mixtape-for-free/ http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090814/the-pirate-bay-stil... Having lived through the 70's punk scene, (although it must be agreed that on the whole it was a pretty contrived marketing plan) and appreciated the youthful, anarchic energy of it, I sort of wonder why most young people (here in the UK) seem so incredibly conservative. Are they really Thatchers children, more concerned about brand identity and affiliation that turning the world on it's head? The Pirate Bay team seem to be 21st c. punks to me, even though I'm sure they see the $$$ at the end of the tunnel.

jacquesm 17y ago
For the 21st century punks go to London or Berlin, the punk scene is alive and well.