The death of BitTorrent?

James

The people who run the massive BitTorrent site Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.org) are going on trial for copyright violations next week in Stockholm, Sweden.

BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol which is widely used to share large media files like television shows, movies and music.

TorrentFreak has an interesting article which quotes Raynor Vliegendhart of the Tribler P2P team at Delft University of Technology, who believes that the Pirate Bay’s servers support as much as 50 percent of all the BitTorrent traffic on the Internet.

So the general belief is if they go down for any extended time — or, God forbid, permanently — it could have a huge impact on torrenters everywhere, including leading to the failure of other trackers (sites that coordinate the sharing process) due to overload.

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/

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I love Pirate Bay. If BitTorrent actually implodes, it has huge ramifications for file sharing. Could the communities even recover from such a blow? I know someone else can start up a new one, but its not that simple. It would take time to build everything up again.

RussTCB

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BLS-Pride

Btjunkie and mininova are my sites. and Utorrent is what I use. Are these effected by this? I just think a new site and server would be put up to replace it.

James

I use utorrent as my client as well. While I use Pirate Bay mostly, I also use isohunt and have used mininova.

They'll all be affected by this. Notice when you download something how some of the trackers originate at Pirate Bay.

BLS-Pride

Ah I see what you are saying about the trackers. Well everyone get on your downloading horses.

AtariLegend

I find it easier just using the advanced domain search on yahoo, for megaupload/rapidshare/filefront/sendspace ect...

Normally one of the major sites has whatever album/movie I'm looking for and faster.

monkeychow

Interesting...considering the time they spend on the website publicly mocking those who threaten them with lawsuits...

Axlin16

I typically use links anyways.

Von

isoHunt and Mininova for me. The loss of The Pirate Bay would essentially neuter all torrent sharing. It's already been removed from Torrent Scan.

slashsfro

To be perfectly honest, I've been using torrent sites with private trackers so I'm not as affected as much. Like Axlin08 mentioned just google searching for megaupload or rapidshare (or others) links can be just as effective. There's also zero chance of getting bad hash fails when downloading from links.

For those who download from isohunt I have a question: Weren't US users blacklisted from isohunt trackers?

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