Had this been happening before? I've been searching the sites about it and I found out that TPB will be back up soon but they don't know exactly when it will happen.
Yes, they can't prove anything.
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#32The organisation that reported Thepiratebay and therefore is the reason for this raid is called Rättighetsalliansen (The Alliance of Rights). The Alliance of Rights is the same organisation as The Anti Pirate Bureau but with a new name.
This is what they say on their website (roughly translated):
"The police raided The Pirate Bay today inside an Internet company in the Stockholm region. Rättighetsalliansen is behind the report against The Pirate Bay.
- Pirate Bay is an illegal commercial service that makes great sums of money by putting up other peoples movies and music on their site. The producers wont get payed for their work and the legal services growth gets prevented, says Henrik Pontén, lawyer at Rättighetsalliansen."
In other words they don't now what they are talking about. Thepiratebay is not putting up any files on thepiratebay.org, the users are (of course nothing is even uploaded, only seeded from user to user). I can recommend the documentary about The piratebay, TPB AFK where you will meet Henrik Pontén from the Anti Piracy Bureau among others.
Rättighetsalliansens website and article about this: http://rattighetsalliansen.se/nyhet/118
EDIT: I think their website crashed.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
So version the magnet link (similar to git) and always serve the latest magnet link via a DNS TXT record.
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#34The organisation that reported Thepiratebay and therefore is the reason for this raid is called Rättighetsalliansen (The Alliance of Rights). The Alliance of Rights is the same organisation as The Anti Pirate Bureau but with a new name. This is what they say on their website (roughly translated): "The police raided The Pirate Bay today inside an Internet company in the Stockholm region. Rättighetsalliansen is behind…
The piratebay hosts no content and even the torrent files themselves are all served from other users. That's the technical side whether that has any legal bearing is a different question.
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#35Earlier 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.
I don't think it's intended as the main mean of consumption, just as yet another measure to make sure it's hard to destroy the information.
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#36Honestly, 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.
Could a way around the centralisation be to encode the magnet hash database (like btdigg) as metadata in the distributed hash table? Then we just need a seed to get at this somehow, which could be spread around forums. Offload searching of the database onto clients.
Talking in vague terms because I'm stretching beyond my knowledge here.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
yes, but because the magnet link is a hash of the content it is only ever a snapshot of the magnet bundle.
So version the magnet link (similar to git) and always serve the latest magnet link via a DNS TXT record.
where does the version control repo live?
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#38Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#39The last uploaded torrent, from what can I tell (from what Google indexed)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:v346Sjm...
State.of.Affairs.S01E04.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION
magnet link:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9d12bfa80f937b7fbed3601ebda9d725d483a2de&dn=State.of.Affairs.S01E04.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#40I thought file sharing was recognized as a religion in Sweden.
I'm not familiar with Swedish law, but assuming it's similar to the USA, then it would be pertinent to know if The Pirate Bay is registered as a church or as a company.