The Pirates Bay removes ALL torrent files

[Cykotic]

Today, The Pirates Bay got rid of all their torrent files and replaced them with magnet files... This means that instead of downloading the .torrent files directly from a central server, they will be downloaded from other BitTorrent users instead. To quote my wife in regards to this: The Pirates Bay without torrents is like porn without sex... not much point really

[MinionZombie]

Today, The Pirates Bay got rid of all their torrent files and replaced them with magnet files... This means that instead of downloading the .torrent files directly from a central server, they will be downloaded from other BitTorrent users instead. To quote my wife in regards to this: The Pirates Bay without torrents is like porn without sex... not much point really Sounds like some kind of legal loophole situation, surely? You'd still visit that site, but it's the source of the .torrent files used to download the actual files that's the change.

[EvilNed]

So it's kind of like torrentz? Which links to Pirate Bay?

[Danny]

yaargh, pi'rasee, pi'rasee never changes....

[bassman]

I stopped using torrents long ago. There's really no point in them these days. Any music can be found easily and films can be viewed streaming. No download required...

[Legion2213]

They are currently trying make UK IP's ban any access to the PB, will be a ruling in a few months. It is sad that as a "free westerner" I may be forced to look at installing TOR or another proxy to simply gain access to a perfectly legal site...like some furtive North Korean wanting to see what is going on outside his borders or some disident from a dictatorship. "You can't stop the signal"

[Neil]

They are currently trying make UK IP's ban any access to the PB, will be a ruling in a few months. It is sad that as a "free westerner" I may be forced to look at installing TOR or another proxy to simply gain access to a perfectly legal site...like some furtive North Korean wanting to see what is going on outside his borders or some disident from a dictatorship. "You can't stop the signal" Interesting... So as China starts opening the firewall around their country, we start introducing one! -- -------- Post added at 06:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:40 PM ---------- Today, The Pirates Bay got rid of all their torrent files and replaced them with magnet files... This means that instead of downloading the .torrent files directly from a central server, they will be downloaded from other BitTorrent users instead. To quote my wife in regards to this: The Pirates Bay without torrents is like porn without sex... not much point really Ummm... Excuse my ignorance, but surely that's a bad analogy? You go onto PirateBay, just like before. Search for what you want, just like before. Click on a file, just like before. Click on download, just like before. Your torrent client (program) opens and downloads, just like before? What's the issue? ie: I still see sex in the porn?

[Legion2213]

Ummm... Excuse my ignorance, but surely that's a bad analogy? You go onto PirateBay, just like before. Search for what you want, just like before. Click on a file, just like before. Click on download, just like before. Your torrent client (program) opens and downloads, just like before? What's the issue? ie: I still see sex in the porn? It also makes it harder for "the man" to see what you are downloading and who is downloading it apparently. Tis the future of torrents (or so I am told).

[Mike70]

"You can't stop the signal" no, you certainly can't. but the problem is that govts. want control of the internet (what they can't control, they fear) and this is just an easy first step. this revolves around a lot of issues. for me, privacy is right at the top. it is becoming damn difficult to preserve privacy on the net with dickheads who post everthing they do on facebook minute by minute. privacy (at least over here) revolves around the expectation of privacy. if morons are posting everything about their private lives on places like facebook, it becomes harder and harder to argue that such things should be private. sorry for this diversion. any and all attempts at controlling the internet really, really irritate me.

[Neil]

It also makes it harder for "the man" to see what you are downloading and who is downloading it apparently. Tis the future of torrents (or so I am told). So to continue with Cykotics terrible analogy It's like watching the same old porn films, with the same amount of sex, just that you've first pulled the curtains so the neighbours can't see?

[Legion2213]

no, you certainly can't. but the problem is that govts. want control of the internet (what they can't control, they fear) and this is just an easy first step. this revolves around a lot of issues. for me, privacy is right at the top. it is becoming damn difficult to preserve privacy on the net with dickheads who post everthing they do on facebook minute by minute. privacy (at least over here) revolves around the expectation of privacy. if morons are posting everything about their private lives on places like facebook, it becomes harder and harder to argue that such things should be private. sorry for this diversion. any and all attempts at controlling the internet really, really irritate me. No diversion for me mate...it's all intertwined. I've no problem with a bit of basic policing, none of us want to see an internet full of child porn or whatever, but they go to far, and governments sure do like to control things. Looks like a lot of people will be migrating to "dark net" or the like in the next few years and decades...which ironically, will make it harder to police the really bad stuff that we would all like to see stopped.

[Danny]

No diversion for me mate...it's all intertwined. I've no problem with a bit of basic policing, none of us want to see an internet full of child porn or whatever, but they go to far, and governments sure do like to control things. Looks like a lot of people will be migrating to "dark net" or the like in the next few years and decades...which ironically, will make it harder to police the really bad stuff that we would all like to see stopped. in my opinion, and i know its a shocker, but i think the 4chan system is the way the internet should be. theres no identities you can get away with anything, yet the community polices itself and can either delete offensive content or ensure it never makes it to the front pages again to further offend people. They will actively help the police track down the sick f*cks who post disgusting acts and think its fun and okay because its 4chan. Case in point a famous story form a few years ago when some kids set fire to a kitten and took pictures and asked 4chan 'lol am i kool?' and 2 hours later they had the pictures and his name and address sent to the fbi and animal welfare. it has its seedy subboards where the sad f*cks hang out but that also isolated them, you cant stop the signal, but unfortunately cant stop the sick f*cks either. Thats WHY deepweb exists at all, this just means in a year or two things like the angry nintendo nerd must go to the same deepweb level as pedophile rings lest they be sued for millions in 'ip content stealing and abuse'. The fact of the matter is, for those with the no how the internet is an uncaged monster you can never cage up again, its like water, it moves, it flows, gets through cracks and runs under the surface. theres no way to stop it. look at the folks who were so anti sopa they launched their own satellite into orbit and set up their own internet supply for their community. People will always find a way to maintain digital freedom. its why piracy exists. sure theres pirates who just dont want to spend money, but theres very very few pirates intentionally pirating to 'ruin' content producers. its access, convenience and freedom. Thats why the internet exists to begin with. And the internet is a global community with countries borders being a wafer thin sham, governments are scared by that and dont like it. because the more the internet grows, the more we become connected as a species on a plantary scale the less power individual nations ultimately have on those billions of 'little things' that make all the big things they control possible. They cant stop it, but that does not mean they wont try as hard as they can for as long as they can. 1984 doesnt have to be about cameras on ever street corner when theres a webcam in every house.

[Cykotic]

yeah... not so good with the analogy things lol

[Neil]

yeah... not so good with the analogy things lol Yeh, your analogies are like putting a fish in a toaster when the hens have already laid their eggs!

[Mike70]

Yeh, your analogies are like putting a fish in a toaster when the hens have already laid their eggs! that sounds like something dr. phil would say on acid.