They should really stop playing whack-a-mole with piratebay, it will never die. The only thing they're doing is wasting money and time.
Not surprised at all, when something like this gets so big of course there is gonna be backup plans to keep it from dying.
Not surprised given that this is [URL="https://torrentfreak.com/download-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-with-permission-130220/"]literally something the Pirate Bay planned for.[/URL]
How do you clone a database as big as The Pirate Bay's probably is?
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;46717561]How do you clone a database as big as The Pirate Bay's probably is?[/QUOTE]
with the pirate bay swapping from torrent files to magnet links, the filesize of the entire site is only a few hundred megabytes, iirc. I know you could fit it on a flashdrive anyways.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;46717561]How do you clone a database as big as The Pirate Bay's probably is?[/QUOTE]
The TPB database is, more or less, a big text file with a bunch of one-line addresses that tell your torrent client where to look for a file in other people's computers. They don't store the actual files themselves. So, at it's smallest, it's just a list of the raw magnet links and their titles for convenience (something like OpenOffice Windows, magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:0b834a7c3adb917a47d866197b54b99926b256dd&dn=OOo_2.1.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe&xs=http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/OpenOffice/stable/2.1.0/OOo_2.1.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe ) and for all of TPB's available torrents, that database is like 100MB. It gets bigger when you add metadata like comments, images, descriptions, etc.
Magnet links are essentially hashes + some metadata, right? So where are the actual .torrent files stored then?
[QUOTE=halfer;46717762]Magnet links are essentially hashes + some metadata, right? So where are the actual .torrent files stored then?[/QUOTE]
but that's the beauty of it. they don't store them. each torrent client generates a .torrent from a magnet link
[QUOTE=Megaman1811;46717777]but that's the beauty of it. they don't store them. each torrent client generates a .torrent from a magnet link[/QUOTE]
I thought it downloads the .torrent from the swarm? The .torrent includes a lot of information not included in a magnet link.
Magnet links connect you to the swarm where you download further data needed to start the download.
i have always liked the pirate bay's logo
[QUOTE=Robber;46717799]I thought it downloads the .torrent from the swarm? The .torrent includes a lot of information not included in a magnet link.[/QUOTE]
You download the data that would normally be stored in .torrent from peers you acquire from magnet. The actual .torrent is generated by your client.
Eeeeeh, what's with the cr domain for pirate bay then?
[QUOTE=cartman300;46720203]Eeeeeh, what's with the cr domain for pirate bay then?[/QUOTE]
A scam.
"To preserve the freedom of information on the Internet."
More like to preserve the freedom of freeloading thieves who claim they're going to try before they buy but inevitably just stick with their stolen version because why would they ever pay when they can just steal the content they want. And Linux distros.
The Pirate Bay should just be renamed the Flying Dutchman at this point
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