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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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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?

No, not really. The somewhat associated Pirate Party used to be a big thing here, but then the party was hijacked by a new leader who mostly seemed to care about LGBT issues. Said leader just resigned last week, and the Swedish Pirate Party is now in a reboot phase.

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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post #18

So....what happened to the "raid-proof" server array they were talking about in September? ( https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo... )

The site's still up, just has a different URL. https://thepiratebay.cr/

Slow, 500 errors everywhere, and doesn't seem to have the blog. Are we sure this mirror is legit?

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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post #20
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.

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.

True, and I would love to see a solution to it, but downloading an archive makes it at least a little bit less centralized.

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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So....what happened to the "raid-proof" server array they were talking about in September? ( https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo... )

Despite the headline, what that article describes isn't "raid proof." Instead it describes a system that can be recreated at a new hosting provider even if the current accounts are terminated or hardware confiscated. A disaster recovery plan.

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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New URL: https://thepiratebay.cr/ A .ac mirror should to be coming up. We'll see if this has the desired effect or is just another whack-a-mole effort.

Could anyone care to explain how this works?

A while ago someone from TPB guys explained their setup. Their web-facing webservers connect to the actual backends via a VPN that does some fancy routing to hide the real location. On top of that, they have a ton of mirrors and proxies running.

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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post #2

New URL: https://thepiratebay.cr/ A .ac mirror should to be coming up. We'll see if this has the desired effect or is just another whack-a-mole effort.

Could anyone care to explain how this works?

It doesn't actually. That's a proxy, not a mirror; designed to make TPB available from countries where it's blocked. Try a search, it won't work.

https://proxybay.info/

However, there's a script where you could download the whole TPB, it's only 90 Mb. That's possible because now they're using only magnet links, so a torrent is pretty much just a URL.

http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-it...

So if someone have a recent copy, it would be easy to setup a mirror.

Or people could just use one of the dozen torrent site still up and let the whack-a-mole game continue.

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could the magnet links be served as a torrent?

Possible a magnet to the magnet bundle?

yes, but because the magnet link is a hash of the content it is only ever a snapshot of the magnet bundle.

Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site's still up, just has a different URL. https://thepiratebay.cr/

Slow, 500 errors everywhere, and doesn't seem to have the blog. Are we sure this mirror is legit?

Not a mirror, a proxy. It doesn't work when the main site is down.
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