Beyond the name thing, I believe the source code for Pirate Bay is useless. It was a crappy website, with bare-bone features, any web developer worth its salt

Beyond the name thing, I believe the source code for Pirate Bay is useless. It was a crappy website, with bare-bone features, any web developer worth its salt could build a better torrent site in a couple weeks. The value of Pirate Bay was their user base, uploader base and their resilience to legal threats and even a raid a few years ago. None of that has to do with the source code that powers the site.