Yes sad but true, thepiratebay tracker will not work any more. They have decided to shutdown it permanently. You might also have noticed that the tracker has been down lately? And that the upload page don’t recommend trackers anymore!

Well ThePirateBay says they will be online except the tracker. The main reason behind this is, the bittorrent technology has reached a level where the need of trackers are becoming lesser and lesser. The technology behind this is, DHT and PEX.

PirateBay blog Post says,

The development of DHT has reached a stage where a tracker is no longer needed to use a torrent. DHT (combined with PEX) is highly effective in finding peers without the need for a centralized service. If you run uTorrent you might have noticed in the tracker tab of your torrents that the [Peer Exchange] (PEX) row is often reporting a lot more peers than the trackers you might have for that torrent. These peers all came to you without the use of a central tracker service!

“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’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well.”

Refer WikiPedia for Detailed technical explanations of DHT and PEX.

DHT (Distributed Hash Table) is a decentralized p2p network which modern BitTorrent clients join by default, enabling them to find peers for a download. PEX (Peer Exchange) is another way of helping you find peers on the network. Combining these two we dont need the trackers anymore.

But still its sad to see Pirate Bay slowly being shut down, part by part.

Yes its the starting of the Ending of an ERA. :’(

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End of an Era: Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down

November 17th, 2009 | by Stan Schroeder

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Do you know how BitTorrent works? I mean, really know the technology behind it? Even if you’re not all too familiar with it, you probably know that it requires a tracker – a computer that coordinates the distribution of a file within the network.

But the trick is, it doesn’t – not anymore. Two technologies called DHT and PEX enable trackerless BitTorrent; in the simplest of terms, the BitTorrent technology has evolved to the point where trackers are no longer necessary for operation. Thus, the folks over at The Pirate Bay have decided to permanently shut down the Pirate Bay tracker.

From the Pirate Bay blog:

“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’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well.”

Yes, seeing Pirate Bay slowly being shut down, part by part, may be sad, but the beauty of this is that little has changed in the site’s operation for the end user. You can still share and download files on The Pirate Bay, even if the tracker doesn’t work.

Detailed technical explanations of DHT and PEX

NASTY OLD PEOPLE

This is Mette’s story. Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four seniors that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and accompanied by the crazy oldies, she longs for respect and love. Together, they create a world of their own. A world you never knew existed.

BEHIND THE SCENES
In the autumn of 2007 Hanna Sköld took a private bank loan of 10 000 euro to make her debut feature film “Nasty Old People”. Now she continues to ignore the middle men in the film industry by distributing it together with the film collective RåFILM’s Luffarbion, aka Vagabond Cinema, and the file sharing site The Pirate Bay. In addition, she releases it under a creative commons license so that anyone can download, share or remix the film.

For more info, please visit
http://www.nastyoldpeople.org

This version of Nasty Old People is licensed BY-NC-SA, meaning that you are free to copy, distribute, transmit and remix the work under the following conditions:

BY: Makers of this movie must be attributed - do this by linking to  

http://www.nastyoldpeople.org

.This version of Nasty Old People is licensed BY-NC-SA, meaning that you are free to copy, distribute, transmit and remix the work under the following conditions:

BY: Makers of this movie must be attributed – do this by linking to

http://www.nastyoldpeople.org

NC: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you have interest in using this film commercially, please contact hanna@tangramfilm.se. If you want to screen this film to an audience, please contact hanna@tangramfilm.se for the purpose of us keeping a
record of where this film has been shown.

SA: If you alter, transform or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. This is because we want people to be able to build upon what we (and you) have done without restrictions.

Please, for all uses of this film, also include a link to the original license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.sv

According to the latest post in the official TPB Blog it seems like one of the founder of TPB a.k.a. The Pirate Bay Peter Sunde resigns from his position.

Says the post:

“The past years I’ve been very active in the discussion of the current state and the future states of the internets. It’s an important cause and I will not give the fight up.

However, I have decided to not be the spokes person for The Pirate Bay anymore. The reasons are many but most importantly it takes too much of my time. I want to build something new and I want to focus my energy in a different direction. I have projects waiting to be finished, a book is waiting to be finalized and many more books are waiting to be read.

Our issues has been raised to another level and it’s time for biological dispersal. At the same time, I have a feeling of being sessile when I need to be the most motile creature ever. The regeneration will continue with me in another place.

Today marks the end of a small era for me, but I am simply leaving a role in order to be a person instead.

Sometimes when you draw on the foggy insides you find what you’re after.”

The Pirate Bay is currently under a bundle of lawsuits from all types of trade groups and media groups and is under acquisition by a software company that wants to take it legal.

In an Amsterdam court last week, BREIN’s lawyer argued that The Pirate Bay is responsible for millions of copyright infringements every day, and that the site should therefore be blocked to visitors from The Netherlands.

Interestingly, the news came as a total surprise to Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter who said they received no official summons and were not aware of the case. In a counter move, the three sent a letter to the Amsterdam court, asking it to dismiss the case and impose damages against BREIN instead.

Today, the verdict was made public and The Pirate Bay has lost the case. The judge ruled that The Pirate Bay has to stop all of their activities in The Netherlands within ten days. If they don’t comply all defendants will be ordered to pay 30,000 euros ($42,300) per day in penalties up to a maximum of 3 million euros ($4,231,000) total.

The court argued that BREIN had done enough to inform the three defendants about the court case, although they were never officially summoned. In a letter to the court the defendants had indicated that if they had know, they wouldn’t have the financial means to attend the hearing. Because of this the court issued a default judgment and gave in to BREIN’s demands.

Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde, who is one of the defendants told TorrentFreak that they will appeal the decision, and that they are currently looking for legal representation.

Interestingly, the verdict claims that The Pirate Bay doesn’t have a registered owner, but holds the three accused responsible for it. However, as we’ve reported previously the site is in fact owned by a company called “Reservella” and not any of the defendants named in the case.

In addition to the three founders, GGF, the intended buyers of the Pirate Bay were also ordered to pay 30,000 euros ($42,300) per day in penalties if they continue to operate the site as it is after the deal is closed.

Legal experts informed TorrentFreak that the current ruling can be largely attributed to the lack of defense, and the fact that the defendants failed to show up. With this ruling in hand, it is not unlikely that BREIN will put pressure on Dutch ISPs if the Pirate Bay doesn’t block Dutch visitors within 10 days.

credit:TorrentFreak.com

From TorrentFreak,

In his article ‘Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On‘, Jamie King cut through much of the doom and gloom of the last week and took a refreshingly optimistic view of how the sale of The Old Pirate Bay might not necessarily be the death-touch many people in the BitTorrent community think it is.

Jamie mused: “What if someone was to simply scrape and copy all The Pirate Bay’s torrents over to a new tracker and Mininova and all the other indexes currently using the TPB tracker were to change their listings to point to that? OpenBitTorrent.com for example, an independent open tracker which started recently.”

So today we ask this question – was Jamie’s article incredibly prophetic? Or did it provide the spark, the catalyst, the inspiration needed to bring the BitTorrent community out of its premature misery this week, instead prompting it into positive action rather than self-destruction?

Whatever the truth, whatever the route, today the BitTorrent community has reason for cautious optimism – or possibly a full-scale celebration.

Try this for yourself, don’t take my word for it. First of all find a torrent on The Pirate Bay – I chose Montt Mardie’s “We Are All The Pirate Bay” for symbolic demo purposes here. Now paste the URL of the torrent into the editor on TorrentEditor.com and click ‘edit it’. TorrentEditor will return the seeds and peers – in this case 182 seeds and no peers.

For the next step, remove the Pirate Bay’s trackers from the torrent and replace them with the announce URL for OpenBitTorrent’s tracker, which is http://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce and click ‘update’ at the bottom of the page. Result: 182 seeds, no peers.

I haven’t got time to check all 1,720,650 torrents on Pirate Bay right now but after trying a few, I reached the same result each time. Also, the scrape file of the OpenBitTorrent tracker is exactly the same size of that of The Pirate Bay tracker.

GGF would like you to think that they will control The New Pirate Bay but I believe that accolade is for the community to bestow. So is OBT (c’mon, what’s a tracker without an acronym these days?) the New TPB?

It is if you say it is.

Now look at these too:

nslookup tracker.thepiratebay.org

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: tracker.thepiratebay.org
Addresses: 2a01:298:3:1::2
192.121.86.4
192.121.86.2
192.121.86.6
192.121.86.3
192.121.86.8
192.121.86.7
192.121.86.5

nslookup tracker.openbittorrent.com

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: tracker.openbittorrent.com
Addresses: 192.121.86.5
192.121.86.8
192.121.86.7
192.121.86.4
192.121.86.2
192.121.86.3
192.121.86.6

and This

http://whois.domaintools.com/openbittorrent.com

http://whois.domaintools.com/212.63.222.20

person: Fredrik Neij

Man i can tell you this is huge.I hope, you got what this means. Pity Global Gaming Factory X.

The site which is one of the top 100 websites that are being visited, “thepiratebay.org” is being sold out to to another Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) for 7.8 million USD.

The acquisition is set to be completed in August and this will have an effect on the business model of the TPB.

GGF CEO Hans Pandeya added,

“The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers need faster downloads and better quality,”

Anyway the official blog of TPB says

“The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets.”

Peter Sunde, co-founder of TPB, has told TorrentFreak that The Pirate Bay will be shutting down their tracker and remove torrent files from their servers. After closing the tracker The Pirate Bay will use the torrents of an upcoming third party service which will introduce an API accessible by other torrent sites as well.

Update:Peter Sunde, co-founder of TPB, has told TorrentFreak that The Pirate Bay will be shutting down their tracker and remove torrent files from their servers. After closing the tracker The Pirate Bay will use the torrents of an upcoming third party service which will introduce an API accessible by other torrent sites as well.

Update:

ThePirateBay adds Userdeletion.

According to the tpb blog :

“We are going to build a user deletion interface later today. Many people have asked about having their account removed and we will not force anyone to stay on of course.

However, we also want to point out that we have no logs of anything, no personal data will be transferred in the eventual sale (since no personal data is kept). So no need to be worried for safety. We always care for that.

It also feels a bit sad to see the comments on the previous blog entry. We understand that you’re upset. But we have reasons to do this that we cannot ignore. We need to keep the site going and this is the only working alternative. We cannot finance the growth of the site anymore and we cannot back down. The only way is up and this is the only route to that place.

The support we had, is support we still need. We’ve been fighting for years for you; and yes; you have supported us in that endeavor. We still need you, even if you abandon the site. The important thing is that you keep sharing and keep on saving the internets. We will try to do that, but right now, we need and deserve a break. Some things needs to be reborn and rebooted. Let’s make this into something good!”