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Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Joona wrote: post #10
wyager wrote: post #5

Honestly, I think the pirate bay getting busted would be a good thing, as it would probably lead to the creation of more distributed, robust filesharing platforms. The actual bulk data distribution is already quite P2P; the only remaining centralized part is the part that distributes the magnet hashes.

I'm pretty sure you can actually download the magnet links as an archive, which shouldn't be too big either.

Could the magnet links be served as a torrent?

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

#12

Post by Joona »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #11
Joona wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure you can actually download the magnet links as an archive, which shouldn't be too big either.

Could the magnet links be served as a torrent?

(If I understand your question correctly,) sure, but it would instantly be outdated, because you can't include the torrent you just created.

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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Post by forgotpasswd3x »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #11
Joona wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure you can actually download the magnet links as an archive, which shouldn't be too big either.

Could the magnet links be served as a torrent?

Possible a magnet to the magnet bundle?

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

#14

Post by draugadrotten »

Joona wrote: post #10
wyager wrote: post #5

Honestly, I think the pirate bay getting busted would be a good thing, as it would probably lead to the creation of more distributed, robust filesharing platforms. The actual bulk data distribution is already quite P2P; the only remaining centralized part is the part that distributes the magnet hashes.

I'm pretty sure you can actually download the magnet links as an archive, which shouldn't be too big either.

Could the magnet links be distributed by adding them to dummy transactions using the BitCoin "coinbase" blockchain method?

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

#17

Post by colechristensen »

eli wrote: post #15
mrkickling wrote: post #4

Will be interesting to see if this will influence the Swedish parliament reelection in march.

Is Pirate Bay & file sharing really that big an issue among the general public in Sweden?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Sweden#Politica...

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

#19

Post by Joona »

eli wrote: post #15
mrkickling wrote: post #4

Will be interesting to see if this will influence the Swedish parliament reelection in march.

Is Pirate Bay & file sharing really that big an issue among the general public in Sweden?

I believe around the founding of the Swedish Pirate Party, they got a lot of attention (and votes) because of TPB being featured heavily in the news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_of_Sweden#2009

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

#20

Post by dfc »

Joona wrote: post #10
wyager wrote: post #5

Honestly, I think the pirate bay getting busted would be a good thing, as it would probably lead to the creation of more distributed, robust filesharing platforms. The actual bulk data distribution is already quite P2P; the only remaining centralized part is the part that distributes the magnet hashes.

I'm pretty sure you can actually download the magnet links as an archive, which shouldn't be too big either.

You can download "an archive" that has all of the magnet links at the time of the creation of the archive. This is not helpful for finding new content. Most importantly downloading a 9 gig archive of magnet links is not a workable system for average users; Bittorrent is only as good as the number of peers in the swarm.
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