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Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
Initially, The Pirate Bay's four Linux servers ran a custom web server called Hypercube. An old version is open-source. [55] On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2 HTTP requests per millisecond on each of the four web servers, [56] as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the front-end of the website.
Online piracy has led to improvements into file sharing technology that has bettered information distribution as a whole. Additionally, pirating communities tend to model market trends well, as members of those communities tend to be early adopters.
Pieces 0, 1, 8, 9 have availability 1. Pieces 2, 3, 6, 7 have availability 2. Pieces 4 and 5 have availability 3. The entire torrent has availability 1.6 (1 + 6/10). The integer part is 1 because 1 is the lowest piece availability. The fractional part is 6/10 because more than one peer has pieces 2 to 7 (6 pieces) and there are 10 total pieces.
In 2012, to minimize legal exposure and save computer resources, The Pirate Bay entirely switched to providing plaintext magnet links instead of traditional torrent files. [19] As the most popular and well-known facilitator of copyright infringement, The Pirate Bay continues to shift between different hosting facilities and domain registrars in ...
The world's largest tracker at The Pirate Bay switched from their selfmade software Hypercube to opentracker in the end of 2007. [6] The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation uses it to distribute their own TV shows. [7] Popular public torrent trackers opentrackr [8] [9] and coppersurfer [4] are known to use opentracker.
[4] [5] Regular contributors include Rickard Falkvinge, founder of the Pirate Party. [6] The online publication eCommerceTimes, in 2009, described "Ernesto" as the pseudonym of Lennart Renkema, owner of TorrentFreak. [7] TorrentFreak's text is free content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial version 3.0 license. [2]