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Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:59:58 EDT

anon posted : You know what is really messed up, TPB down but pedophiles still have there site up.

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Amer···ociation

Shows that the US has their priorities straight.

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:49:23 EDT

DataRiker posted :

said by brianiscool:

No point keeping Pirate Bay up. Everything is old on their site and just magnetic links.

?

Almost every torrent I find on the usual suspects is also on pirate bay. New stuff everyday.

Also, never had an issue with magnet links.

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:19:05 EDT

brad posted :

said by brianiscool:

If the trackers ever change their IP address or no longer work. The magnetic links will no longer work.

Wrong.

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:26:01 EDT

Rekrul posted :

said by elefante72:

Magnet links are better because theoretically they are not hosting trackers (the locators) (the are the crypto hash name) and thus are not involved in the copyright infringement.

Magnet links often suck at finding seeds/peers.

Just a few days ago I went looking for a show that had just aired and the only site that Torrentz found it on was ThePirateBay, which only had a magnet link. I clicked on it and waited. After about 30 minutes it had a total of 1 seed and 11 peers. I checked Torrentz again and there were a couple other sites listed. I went to one, downloaded the torrent, which had several active trackers, and within a minute of importing the torrent file I had about 150 seeds and 300 Peers. My download speed went from 3K/s to 700K/s.

And yes, DHT, Peer Exchange and the like were enabled.

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:07:27 EDT

elefante72 posted : Magnet links are better because theoretically they are not hosting trackers (the locators) (the are the crypto hash name) and thus are not involved in the copyright infringement.

I read the entire TPB was now only like 80 MB because all it needed to host were the magnet links. So there is no reason that data can't be replicated in 100 or more places in someone's dropbox account.

Magnet links use DHT (distributed hash tables) to update their data and find the hive nodes. The latest utorrent allows you to choose what files of a torrent you still want to download.

I agree that Pirate Bay is decreasing in users sue to concerted government efforts, however there are many other avenues to share content.

Just as others have gone, others will come. Content by it's nature wants to be free, and some 1980's revenue maximizing scheme used by content companies needs to adapt to the changing times... There will be no paywall renaissance, regardless of what HBO thinks..

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:51:32 EDT

Rastan posted : If you enable DHT it will not matter if the tracker's IP address changes.

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:46:06 EDT

brianiscool posted : If the trackers ever change their IP address or no longer work. The magnetic links will no longer work.

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:43:24 EDT

FBGuy posted : what's wrong with magnet links? I ask as a usenet user and am not familiar with torrenting.

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:32:06 EDT

brianiscool posted : Kick ass torrents is still kicking. If you're downloading large files I suggest newsgroups instead. When download Ubuntu, Slackware, or Freebsd my speeds are 4.5MB/sec on bitorrent. Where on newsgroups I hit 20MB/sec

Re: Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:29:32 EDT

steve1515 posted :

said by brianiscool:

No point keeping Pirate Bay up. Everything is old on their site and just magnetic links.

What do you use instead?

Shut it down!

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:54:03 EDT

brianiscool posted : No point keeping Pirate Bay up. Everything is old on their site and just magnetic links.