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The Pirate Bay Maps Tracker Connections, China Has Most

By soulxtc

Sweden-based BitTorrent tracker site rolls out new Google-powered map that shows user base percentages by country. Leave it to The Pirate Bay to dazzle BitTorrent users with stats illustrating the world's pirate community. Fresh from an upgrade of the site?s tracker servers to handle the increasing deluge of new visitors, the excess CPU power has allowed it to "collect some fun stats." ?We just upgraded the trackers from 12 old boxes to 8 new ones that handle the same load, but now only at 20% CPU usage, so we can grow a bit more,? Pirate Bay co-founder TiAMO told TorrentFreak. ?Having some spare power in the servers has allowed us to collect some fun stats,? he added.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).