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The Old Pirate Bay
- mahouse 12y agoThat's a very old dump of the database, I'm afraid.
- edem 12y agoIt is better than nothing I suppose.
- davidgerard 12y agoNot more than a week, e.g. a broadcast recording of Pokemon S17E46 (broadcast Dec 6) is present.
- mahouse 12y agoThen it is not complete, or the search system does not work very well, since I can not find a torrent I uploaded over a year ago.
- davidgerard 12y agoSounds plausible - I note that the paging links don't work. Compare http://thepiratebay.ee http://thepiratebay.ee , which has the same problem.
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- cmelbye 12y agoIt has an episode I searched for that came out two days ago (after the raid, actually), so it can't be that old.
- happyscrappy 12y agoThis is good, no ads. Anyone can share files but if you don't have ads you can't scale and if you are making money by having ads you become a target.
- gpvos 12y agoThey're only sharing magnet/torrent files, which are pretty small, so it should be possible to get quite far I guess?
- jonifico 12y agoPowered by Isohunt? Now that's interesting! Have to agree about the old database, and the search ain't all that accurate. But still, nice finding.
- quarterto 12y agoBear in mind this is isohunt.to, which has no relation whatsoever to the old Isohunt: http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-to-from-zero-to-the-8th-biggest-torrent-site-in-just-2-months-140118/ http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-to-from-zero-to-the-8th-bigg...
- BAN_ALL_HUMOR 12y agoIt's a shame, really. I was a big fan of the old Isohunt back in the day.
- jonifico 12y agoI had no idea that existed! Thanks for the info, looks like a good sidekick for the good ol' PB.
- peejfancher 12y agoThis site also seems to work: http://thepiratebay.cr/ http://thepiratebay.cr/
- AndrewDucker 12y agoI do wonder why a more decentralised approach hasn't taken off.
- runn1ng 12y agoBasically, centralization is needed for deleting fakes, viruses, wrongly labeled stuff. Totally decentralized approach will have all the negatives KaZaA had in the 00s ("matrix.avi.exe").
- zwetan 12y agoa crowd funded approach could work to filter out "bad content". Same way as here on HN, people could vote (plus or minus) to help rank the content.
- seabee 12y agoYou'd have to mitigate against the Sybil attack. Crowd funding is one way (ironic since I think you meant crowdsourced?) but as we know from SEO optimisation, all that does is force you to pay to get your spam/malware promoted.
- Pxtl 12y agoDecentralized with quality control would be a hard but interesting problem. You could do upvotes/downvotes using cryptographic signatures use a little web-based authority to let people know whose signatures are reputable.
- rdrey 12y agoI've been thinking about this problem, too. (Reputation in a decentralised & anonymous web.) What would stop someone from creating fake users? They could easily form a realistic 'social network' over time, giving them some legitimacy. Together a large number of fake users can defeat any form of voting / quality control. I find this stuff very interesting, let me know if I'm missing an obvious approach.
- pknerd 12y agoOk I searched a few porn movies to verify whether they have it completely or not. Glad to tell you that it's really the 'Pirate Bay'
- Killah911 12y agoHey Adnan, might not be a good idea to tie your porn habbits quite so publicly with all your linkedIn and social media info so clearly visible. Just a heads up from a fellow developer who's done plenty of dumb shit :-)
- informatimago 12y agoWhat is porn? Otherwise, I gather that everybody has porn habits!
- razster 12y agoGood thing about that is you can use anyone's username as your own on any site.
- leke 12y agoNever trust a man who says he doesn't watch porn.
- dumbfounder 12y agoInteresting that they call it the "pilgrim" of freedom, and not the pirate...
- maurobaraldi 12y agoIt is better, because there is no ads!
- Plough_Jogger 12y agoThe next 'Pirate Bay' will likely be on a decentralized storage network like Storj, rather than rely on a single point of failure. Much more robust.
- cantbecool 12y agoThe Pirate Bay will be back. They just had their load balancer taken out. All this doom and gloom about how the TPB is gone for good is ridiculous. It's a cash cow, it's not going to go away anytime soon. I knew something was wrong with TPB before it was announced that it was raided and subsequently taken down. I noticed an uptick in in sessions on google analytics for my movie meta-torrent search engine https://moviemagnet.net https://moviemagnet.net
- gkoberger 12y agoLegitimate question: Cash cow for whom? With everyone in jail, who gets the money? Did they take salaries before? Where is this money stored? (I imagine freezing assets is easier than taking down a website; with money you have to play within the system)
- Alupis 12y agoAlmost all the money went towards purchasing equipment and legal fees. I don't think anyone in particular (except maybe the lawyers) got rich off the site.
- cLeEOGPw 12y agoKeep believing the sob stories. One of the most frequently visited websites is "barely paying for the servers", yeah right. Wish Wikileaks would publish real numbers and profit they make.
- soperj 12y agoIt's not like they needed an exorbitant amount of servers either, they host magnet links.
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- ajross 12y agoTo be fair, I don't think anyone has any idea where that money is going (though maybe someone has an estimate for how much money is involved). Statements from pseudonymous site operators can't reasonably be trusted. If they were getting rich off of a site of questionable legality, they certainly wouldn't be advertising that fact.
- acronmace 12y agonice to have it back online..
- amatheus 12y agoMaybe I'm saying something stupid, but couldn't the pirate bay be distributed as a torrent that is continually updated, and then you have a torrent client that can search the database?
- Cushman 12y agoYeah, it's a clever idea but torrents are basically just content hashes, so they can't be updated by nature. In fact TPB was already not serving torrent files in large part; every torrent with more than a handful of peers is stored as a magnet link, which literally is just a content hash. I'm positive there's something rather clever to be done there, but we can't put it into a torrent.
- realusername 12y agoActually that's not true anymore : http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html.
- Cushman 12y agoThat's not updating the content of a torrent, that's updating a torrent file given a URL and a signature. It's not even BitTorrent, more like embedded RSS. Doesn't really help us out here.
- makomk 12y agoThe nice thing about BitTorrent is that if you point the new .torrent file at the same location as the old one, your client should incrementally download just the new parts. All you need is a way to distribute and switch over to new .torrent files automatically - something like BEP 0039, for example.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 12y agoI've been thinking about this. Let's say we have a small html file, which loads the javascript torrent library. You keep this file on your desktop (and give it to friends), maybe even bookmark it to make it easier to open. The javascript fires off, accesses a torrent (hard-coded into the html itself), which loads content for the website... images, js files, everything. It also loads the data (I'm assuming it's small, but I've read claims that the data is only about 90 megs) into javascript storage, ready to be searched locally. The torrent swarm itself could become so big that it'd be self-sustaining, no original seeders would need to stay online vulnerable to legal threats. To have the torrent continually update with new content, you'd have to break the protocol (which, for this one purpose, might not be bad). But I don't understand it well enough to know this is even possible for certain. With magnet links, you first have to download the whole torrent file before you can start downloading, and it may not be possible to coax it into get the updated torrent file again. Even if you can't do that, updates themselves might just be new torrents... we can run javascript on this page, so we can be clever and have it derive new torrents/hashes to download. It would be good if anyone could update the data, for instance, adding torrents (though how to police that so they don't add junk or poison the thing... not sure).
- rnhmjoj 12y agohttps://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becomes-raid-proof-121017/ https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becom... Sooo, I guess it wasn't "virtually invulnerable to police raids".
- evv 12y agoI really wish somebody would invent a torrent/magnet service distributed on a blockchain.
- djyaz1200 12y agoGod Damn I love the internet!!! :)
- santacluster 12y agoIt's kind of confusing, they make it sound like a snapshot of TPB before it was raided, but it actually contains very recent torrents that weren't yet available when TPB went down.
- pmalynin 12y agoSo I'm still not sure why people just don't go to say Kickass Torrents and forget about TPB.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoTPB was/is blocked at ISP level in our country (UK). These sorts of mirrors of course aren't. So there's some Streisand Effect going on here in that more mirrors are being publicised because of the take down basically making it easier for people in the UK to find TPB content than it was last week. Personally I don't use the site however.