:pcgaming:[b]HEY YOU! READ THE OP OR AT LEAST THE TL;DR VERSION![/b]:pcgaming:
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Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.
tpbIn the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height.
Despite this success, The Pirate Bay operators today decided to pull the plug and close down the tracker permanently. The evolution of the BitTorrent protocol has made trackers redundant they say, as BitTorrent downloads work well with trackerless solutions such as DHT and PEX.
“Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well,” the Pirate Bay crew write on their blog.
Aside from this shutdown, there is also another major development quietly under discussion.
TorrentFreak has learned that behind the scenes the Pirate Bay operators are talking to other BitTorrent site owners to encourage them to follow suit and completely ditch torrents in the future. BitTorrent has reached a point where trackers and torrents are no longer needed to download files successfully. Supported by all of the major BitTorrent clients, DHT and PEX can handle the transfers and Magnet links can easily replace traditional torrent files.
“We’re talking to the other torrent admins on doing magnet links and DHT+PEX for all sites. Moving away from torrents and trackers totally – like pick a date and all agree ‘from this date, we’ll not support torrents anymore’,” a Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak.
Switching to trackerless and torrentless downloading on public BitTorrent sites does indeed seem to be an option. Previously, many people thought that BitTorrent would collapse if a dominant tracker like the Pirate Bay went down, but this doomsday scenario never unfolded. In fact, the recent downtime of the tracker did not slow down or stop many transfers, as DHT and PEX seamlessly took over.
Those BitTorrent users who don’t want to go trackerless just yet can of course still use OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent, or indeed one of the many other alternative trackers currently available.
Whether or not The Pirate Bay and others will move away from torrent files in the future, the closure of the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is nevertheless a milestone in the history of the Internet. Starting today, the Pirate Bay has changed its tagline from “The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker” to “The world’s most resilient (magnetic) BitTorrent site.”[/quote]
Well this is sad. A part of the internet and a part of history dead.
Goodnight sweet prince.
[url]http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tracker-shuts-down-for-good-091117/[/url]
:siren:[b]TL;DR:[/b]:siren:TPB is shutting down their tracker. The torrents will now use [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol]UDP[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table]DHT[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_exchange]PEX[/url] protocols as trackers as they are redundant. If the RIAA or MPAA or any other firm wants to take it down completely, they got to shut down the internet completely.
Goodnight sweet prince.
I enjoyed every moment I spent with you.
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RIP, demonoid here I come
Oh no :(
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broken auto merge
[QUOTE=One Long Sausage;18419027]RIP, demonoid here I come[/QUOTE]
Ha ha if it comes back.
Couldn't they, like, have announced this before?
(Or have they?)
Rip
Fuck these new times.
[QUOTE=evilking1;18419038]Ha ha if it comes back.[/QUOTE]
fffff, it's still offline
Finally...another internet tyrant is dead.
And to clarify, no matter how much you want to fight the system, it is illegal, and it is theft. You are taking something that costs money in a shop, and costs money to produce for nothing...ergo- it's theft.
rip sweet prince
now where will i download all my [i]linux images[/i] and [i]other free stuff[/i] :(
[QUOTE=IronPhoenix;18419050]Finally...another internet tyrant is dead.
And to clarify, no matter how much you want to fight the system, it is illegal, and it is theft. You are taking something that costs money in a shop, and costs money to produce for nothing...ergo- it's theft.[/QUOTE]
But where will I download my linux distros now :(
[QUOTE=IronPhoenix;18419050]Finally...another internet tyrant is dead.
And to clarify, no matter how much you want to fight the system, it is illegal, and it is theft. You are taking something that costs money in a shop, and costs money to produce for nothing...ergo- it's theft.[/QUOTE]
Are you butthurt because you pay for what others get for free?
[QUOTE=johanz;18419073]Are you butthurt because you pay for what others get for free?[/QUOTE]
Yeah by downloading music, movies, and games, you are making the world more safe and filled with freedom, those RIAA guys just are using the money to sell guns to Iraq.
[QUOTE=IronPhoenix;18419050]Finally...another internet tyrant is dead.
And to clarify, no matter how much you want to fight the system, it is illegal, and it is theft. You are taking something that costs money in a shop, and costs money to produce for nothing...ergo- it's theft.[/QUOTE]
boohoo
I paid $600 for one piece of software(cubase 5)
The week after I bought it it was fully cracked by team air but you don't see me bitchin that thousand of people now can get it for free when I paid full price for it
[QUOTE=johanz;18419073]Are you butthurt because you pay for what others get for free?[/QUOTE]
No. I just believe that in order for companies to want to release products, we should give them some support. If everyone pirated indie games, would they make it with no money to support them? No.
And just because you are pirating from larger companies, it doesn't make it right. If you are doing a try before you buy, then that is slightly more acceptable, unless you are playing it and not actually buying it or removing it from your hdd if you don't like it.
[QUOTE=evilking1;18419080]Yeah by downloading music, movies, and games, you are making the world more safe and filled with freedom, those RIAA guys just are using the money to sell guns to Iraq.[/QUOTE]
I actually would not be surprised if they were.
[QUOTE=evilking1;18419080]Yeah by downloading music, movies, and games, you are making the world more safe and filled with freedom, those RIAA guys just are using the money to sell guns to Iraq.[/QUOTE]
finally someone gets it :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=IronPhoenix;18419087]No. I just believe that in order for companies to want to release products, we should give them some support. If everyone pirated indie games, would they make it with no money to support them? No.
And just because you are pirating from larger companies, it doesn't make it right. If you are doing a try before you buy, then that is slightly more acceptable, unless you are playing it and not actually buying it or removing it from your hdd if you don't like it.[/QUOTE]
If there will be no piracy at all, devs will be able to shit so much shitty games.
Fuck piratebay,we have mininova.
:v:
Sniffles, rip pirate bay, we WILL remember you!
Wow finished my linux distro download just in time.:drum:
All we need is the "piracy doesn't remove the original, so it's not stealing, thus everybody wins" argument and the circle has closed.
Even though I don't download stuff I still think It's sad.
[QUOTE=Poltergeist Three;18419115]Wow finished my MW2 download just in time.:drum:[/QUOTE]
i hope by MW2 you mean linux distro :cop:
[QUOTE=LaTrefle;18419105]Fuck piratebay,we have mininova.
:v:[/QUOTE]
Mininova isn't a tracker
[QUOTE=johanz;18419099]If there will be no piracy at all, devs will be able to shit so much shitty games.[/QUOTE]
If there was no piracy we wouldn't have this idiotic drm systems, and devhouses will be able to use the money to make some kickarse titles. The average mmo costs 100 million to setup, and will consist of around 3-5 million lines of code. Yes, they make one hell of a lot of money, but the initial cost is extremely steep. Not to mention server maintenance, extensive time in QA yada yada.
Piracy does not breed good games, if anything piracy is the creator of ugly, poorly made, shitty games because devs know it will be pirated...so why bother.
Wait, does this mean you cannot use BitTorrent anymore?
R.I.P Pirate Bay. You will be missed.
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