Archive for November, 2009
The Pirate Bay has been in Zombie Pirate mode for months now , but one of the last remnants of its halycon days has been sent to sea on a burning boat: their tracker — the biggest in the world — is gone . (more…)
The Pirate Bay’s BitTorrent tracker is down for good—but that’s by design. The Pirate Bay has been intermittently unavailable for last few months as copyright holders have pressured its various ISPs to cut off service to the site in the wake of Swedish court decisions against the site’s operators. Even though BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer [...]
think_nix writes “The Pirate Bay has shut down their BitTorrent tracker. Instead TPB is now using Distributed Hash Table to distribute the torrents. The Pirate Bay Blog states that DHT along with PEX (Peer Exchange) Technology is just as effective if not better for finding peers than a centralized service. The Local reports that shutting [...]
After months of legal controversy which were followed by months of uncertainty about the future of the service, the Pirate Bay’s popular torrent tracker has been shut down for good.
think_nix writes “The Pirate Bay has shut down their BitTorrent tracker. Instead TPB is now using Distributed Hash Table to distribute the torrents. The Pirate Bay Blog states that DHT along with PEX (Peer Exchange) Technology is just as effective if not better for finding peers than a centralized service. The Local reports that shutting [...]
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
Pirate Radio RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Nostalgic comedy. Starring Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Talulah Riley. Directed by Richard Curtis. (R. 115 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Seen from a distance, 1966 is a neither-fish-nor-foul…