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Pirate Bay Unveils "Portable Site", RIAA/MPAA's Worst Nightmare Weighs 90 Megabytes
This is arguably every copyright enforcement group's worst nightmare, The Pirate Bay, which calls itself "the most resilient bit-torrent site in the galaxy", unveiled what is known as its "portable version", meaning, when taken down by an enforcement agency, any person, in any part of the world can restore the site, because it now weighs just 90 megabytes. That's right, the 90 MB copy of the site itself contains all its HTML, script and static images, and Magnet Links to over 1,643,194 torrents spread across all its categories.
A little earlier this year, The Pirate Bay transitioned from being a host for .torrent files to a host for magnet:// links. This transition means that each torrent consisted of a typically 50 KB .torrent file, is now reduced to a <1 KB Magnet link in the resource. The copy of the site itself is there for anyone to copy. Enforcement agencies' worst nightmare indeed weighs just 90 MB. ![]() Sources: The Verge, TorrentFreak |
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Have to hand it to the piratebay, they are stubborn and clever ha ha.
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very, very interesting. I want to see where this leads....
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This is good news.
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piracy is here to stay, and will never end. they should give up trying and just go for people selling physical copies, and doing the cracking/original uploading.
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Honestly I would love to have a thumb drive like this
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Pirate Bay forever!
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Now share the torrent of that entire site for the world to make backup!
![]() Edit: Oh they already did that, I thought it was internal backup
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Isn't that the status quo already? More or less? A single human being owning intellectual property and being responsible to his/her own IP is dwindling greatly in the past decades.
Although technically it's still "personal" ownership and "self" responsibility since companies and corporations are also "individuals".
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haha. this is funny
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Maybe this is a plant. When people get this is scans their computer bypassing any firewalls or proxy they may normally hide behind and sends their info to the RIAA?!?
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That is a good news for our own liberty rights, and is not good for the real thieves that don't like we share.
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It's nothing wrong with piracy really. It's a natural part of the software eco-system. And if they blindly believe that by 100% stopping the piracy, their sales would skyrocket, they are sadly very mistaken. What they'd do is to push customers even further back into thinking twice before handing over ANY money. But today anyone can grab a copy on P2P and if you think they deserve the money, you'll also buy it. If you think they don't deserve it, you'll probably erase the content even before finishing it. P2P is also a good source of backup copies. Once my CD of the legendary game System Shock 2 got scratched. Without P2P i'd be doomed. But instead, i found a bit perfect copy on the interwebs, downloaded it, burned and i now have it next to the scratched original. And i had the same scenario with Screamer 2 game. P2P savez!
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what is magnet link?
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A link. No file is being hosted. Essentially if you get a magnet link, it finds "itself" in your peers, and then gets "itself" among them. It's just like torrent files, except instead of a .torrent file being hosted, you "torrent" the torrent file itself first.
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which "torrent" sites offer this magnet link?
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Several.
Right now it's the "alternate" to torrents, but it looks like they're migrating to magnet links. Well, TPB anyway. And the clients are still compatible with magnet links.
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