Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof

Post by bluedanieru » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 7:43 AM UTC

contravert wrote: post #57

maeon3 wrote: post #34

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The solution is NOT to make the mothership government and computer under your desk the sovreign ruler over what you can and cannot do on your computer, your mind. We are thinking on a decade and century level timescale here. I don't care if some artist or some coder somewhere doesn't get paid for some work well done. The future of our species is at stake here and we are trying to paint a bright future for your great…

While I agree with your ideals in general, I don't think TPB is a paragon we should uphold. TPB is not like "Robin Hood" at all. Have you seen the extremely deceptive ads on each torrent page that looks like the actual download button? The real download button is a small hyperlink, but they are clearly trying to deceive people into downloading whatever malware is linked. It's more like the rich stealing from the rich…

Even when you click the magnet link, it will randomly pop up an ad instead anyway. You then have to close the ad and try again.

Post by rmc » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 8:51 AM UTC

jlgreco wrote: post #64

mayneack wrote: post #56

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I may be misinterpreting your comment, but the massive amounts of data associated with torrents don't actually go through the trackers. The trackers just manage peers while the data goes directly from one user to another. (or at least that's how I understood it)

TPB doesn't even run trackers anymore. My impression is that these servers only serve up magnet links (not even torrent files) and textual descriptions of them. Provided they spread it out even a little, nothing about that traffic should appear out of the ordinary.

They serve torrent files for some torrents. If a file has very few peers, they'll offer a .torrent download.

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