Copyright Law

Grab a Backup Copy of the Pirate Bay

By soulxtc

Download a mockup of the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site that includes 873,671 searchable torrent trackers before it goes legit August 27th.

We have a little over a week now before Global Gaming Factory is expected to complete its acquisition of the Pirate Bay and turn into a legitimate online media store.

As such an anonymous BitTorrent user has been kind enough to create a 21.3GB-sized backup copy that includes a mockup of the site allowing you to search through some 873,671 torrents.

“I crawled their index and since I don’t have the hardware necessary to deploy it to the public, I have decided to release the database,” he writes. “Remember that all torrents from TPB now have the new tracker openbittorrent.com included, so they will continue to track even after the TPB tracker shuts down. I have included the program I made to crawl the index, and a mockup website that can read the database.”

So now the PirateBay.org may die, but it’s spirit will live on via BitTorrent clients everywhere and further make it’s conviction for copyright infringement meaningless.

Stay tuned.

jared@zeropaid.com

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Full post as published by ZeroPaid on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).