Archive for November 17th, 2009
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Pirate Bay — or the latest rev after unsuccessful entertainment industry efforts to close it down — has changed it ways. It’s decided trackers are passé and that “magnet links”are where’s at. Magnets, invented by Gordon Mohr, allow websites to link to content on p2p networks, p2pnet posted [...]
Takes seat at distributed hash table The Pirate Bay has kyboshed its tracker technology and replaced it with a decentralised peer-to-peer network that all modern clients can hook up to.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
The Pirate Bay file sharing site has decided to shut down the tracker that allows users to share digital files with one another in a move that could negate the court ordered fines facing two of the men behind the site.
The ironing is delicious A Swedish firm has hijacked the Pirate Bay logo after discovering the torrent tracker had not registered its three-masted graphic with the appropriate authorities.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work