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Pirate Bay changes tack
09:57 | Wednesday November 18, 2009
The Pirate Bay founders have changed the way the P2P site operates, taking it away from a centralised system.
The Pirate Bay, which has thus far resisted efforts by the music and film industries to shut it down, has replaced its central tracker technology with technology that allows users to find other peers without accessing a central server.
The company says that this will mean, “Faster and more stability for the users because there is no central point to rely upon.”
“Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down,” it adds.
The development also means that The Pirate Bay is not involved in any downloads – although it remains to be seen what the courts will make of such a change: in April the founders of the site were sentenced to a year and jail and heavy fines by a Swedish court for copyright infringement.
On his Twitter, The Pirate Bay’s former spokesman Peter Sunde writes, “To make it totally clear. #tpb is not closing. #tpb closed the tracker because new technology has evolved to not need it. Less problems!”
Readers' comments
Has anyone thought about "employing" 500+ teenagers/young adults and spending 3 or 4 hundred grand getting them 'on the firm' as the old adage goes. [ie: not just bore them with a survey] Get right inside their buying & downloading habits. Let them squeal on their peers' habits as well. 500k sounds a lot but it's only 2 week's revenue lost to the torrent sites. Make the younger guys feel part of the system not against it. Let them meet the stars, producers... back room dudes on 18k who are also at threat. Publish individual comments and get the brightest of the bunch on TV with youth presenters. Rather than 50 year old geezers on talk shows moaning about piracy If clever enough we might have something to rebuild on again in 3 or 4 years. The near future is bleak though. It obviously won't be 100% successful but it will be a darn site cheaper than chasing isps through the courts demanding usage info of individuals. 500 younger guys might educate another 500 and so on. It will take bloody ages an may only educate certain demographics, but at the moment the Pirate Bays of the is world have the higher ground. Ricky
Interesting thought, Ricky! I agree with you.
not a bad idea. Procter & Gamble are masters at this and I suspect EMI is doing similar things with the CEO's learnings from marketing consumer products. however, the concept of 'lost revenue' is a bit misguided, because in ordinary circumstances, people (especially not teenagers) would not buy the amount of music that they 'steal' through Pirate Bay. All that Pirate Bay does, is make the age-old process of taping songs when they come on the radio a loooooot easier. I think the focus should be on the parents. They are clearly less informed on the rights and wrongs of the digital era. Inform the parents that downloading music infringes copyrights and offer THEM viable solutions to encourage their kids to do things the right way from the get-go. i.e. giving a portion of their allowance in iTunes credits, buying a subscription to one of the many music services out there for the whole family. Ground zero for education lies with the parents. Focus your education money there.