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Originally Posted by kane
Here is a different article. This might be the one I read before.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pirat...e-115899.shtml
In it he says that they expect the site to continue running as normal (although it does sound like he assumes it would be the new owners running it that way) and also it says something about a site called Open Tracker taking over most of the Pirate Bay's torrents. I have no idea if Pirate Bay has any involvement in Open Tracker, but it sounds like this new site will basically mirror everything on Pirate Bay. |
Ah now I'm following.
There has actually been 3 new trackers launched since the announcement of The Pirate Bay sale. These are all independent trackers backed by other key players in the torrent world.
Essentially this is what they meant with less centralized systems, someone launches a tracker, the next service hosts the torrent (could be any file hosting site) and the third provides the search.
About OpenBittorrent Tracker, it has actually been added to ALL torrents on TPB so it is a functioning mirror. But I don't think TPB owners are involved in the development of this tracker, at least not from what I've read.
Here is more info...
OpenBittorrent Tracker
http://torrentfreak.com/openbittorre...te-bay-090705/
PublicBT Tracker
http://torrentfreak.com/publicbt-tra...s-heel-090712/
Hidden Tracker (this one is the latest, it's IP/location is actually hidden)
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-h...ia-tor-090725/