Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday?
The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so.
Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay’s founders.
“OpenBitTorrent is used for file sharing, and we suspect that it is the Pirate Bay tracker with a new name. It is added by default on all of the torrent tracker files on Pirate Bay,” Monique Wadsted, a Hollywood attorney, told Swedish media.
Wadsted, TorrenFreak notes, said Fredrik Neij, one of the four Pirate Bay co-founders, originally registered the tracker’s domain.
Source: Wired
The Pirate Bay has shut down their torrent tracker for good. This is the end of an era, but not the end of piracy. The Pirate Bay is following in the footsteps of other trackers that have been shut down.
Although this may seem like a blow to the pirate community, especially with the iconic Pirate Bay logo being hijacked by a company to sell flash drives, trackerless solutions such as DHT are now becoming more popular.
The never ending piracy arms race continues.
Source: Torrentfreak
Filed under Piracy, Wireless
Tagged as MPAA, Piracy, wifi
The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town’s municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA’s spokeslizard took the opportunity to cry poor (even though the studios are bringing in record box-office and aftermarket receipts).
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