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The Pirate Bay is starting a new torrent tracker

The admins over at The Pirate Bay have decided that their extremely popular torrent tracker has reached its performance limit and have announced that they are currently working on a more efficient open source tracker that will even protect better against anti-piracy groups.

TPB also said they had moved their servers to a new datacenter and added an extra four brand new servers making their total an impressive 16. The new datacenter also allows for better protection against DDoS attacks and "nullrouting the spam-nets from anti-piracy organizations."



According to the tracker design page, the "new tracker will be capable of blocking and/or logging known p2p vandals such as MediaDefender, BayTSP, MediaSentry and EZ2net." The new tracker should also help ensure the privacy of its users as well as using less bandwidth while connecting to more peers.

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Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 2 Oct 2007 19:51

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• PeaInAPod

  Quote:According to the tracker design page, the "new tracker will be capable of blocking and/or logging known p2p vandals such as MediaDefender, BayTSP, MediaSentry and EZ2net." The new tracker should also help ensure the privacy of its users as well as using less bandwidth while connecting to more peers.Only at the PirateBay, these guys rock.

  3.10.2007 13:11 #1

• c1c

  I wish I could buy stock in TPB!

  3.10.2007 16:25 #2

• FrmDstryr

  lol c1c those stocks would be so far through the fkin roof

  3.10.2007 17:04 #3

• EvilDeeds

  For some reason I suddenly wondered how much money they make through the advertising... they must be minted!! :)
  
  When you think about it, the music and movie industry are idiots, they could easily cripple these sites by threatening the ad companies who pay TPB for displayin ad's... it would remove the money and therefore the main incentive for being a huge tracker site.

  4.10.2007 01:25 #4

• PeaInAPod

  Originally posted by AtiLaw: For some reason I suddenly wondered how much money they make through the advertising... they must be minted!! :)
  
  When you think about it, the music and movie industry are idiots, they could easily cripple these sites by threatening the ad companies who pay TPB for displayin ad's... it would remove the money and therefore the main incentive for being a huge tracker site.In theory yes it could work, but there is no law agaisnt advertising on a site that can be used for "piracy".

  4.10.2007 04:40 #5

• EvilDeeds

  Yeah, you're probably right. Obviously I'm not remotely bothered that the millionair execs wont be able to afford this year's latest Rolls Royce, but I just thought it would be an interesting idea! :)

  4.10.2007 05:29 #6

• EvilDeeds

  I also forgot to add:
  "...there is no law agaisnt advertising on a site that can be used for "piracy" " ...... yet, watch this space! :)

  4.10.2007 05:33 #7

• Gidgid

  Originally posted by AtiLaw: I also forgot to add:
  "...there is no law agaisnt advertising on a site that can be used for "piracy" " ...... yet, watch this space! :)haha. too true... too true.

  4.10.2007 16:33 #8

• cowly

  i must say they have always been a favourite of mine

  6.10.2007 07:00 #9

• c1c

  Originally posted by AtiLaw: For some reason I suddenly wondered how much money they make through the advertising... they must be minted!! :)
  
  When you think about it, the music and movie industry are idiots, they could easily cripple these sites by threatening the ad companies who pay TPB for displayin ad's... it would remove the money and therefore the main incentive for being a huge tracker site.I read an article that they rake in millions and millions in a few months from advertising. Mad money.
  
  http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_Pirate...illion_Per_Year
  

  
  
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  7.10.2007 21:01 #10

• borhan9

  this is great news.

  9.10.2007 19:35 #11

• td1ddy

  @ whoever asked how much money they make...
  
  A less popular torrent site reported ad sales alone each month of 75,000USD. I believe I read it on that torrent news site. Anyways, I heard they have around 1.5 million visits a day, not unique perhaps, but nevertheless. I'm estimating they gross over 100,000 a month in sales. Thats a low end estimate though.

  9.11.2007 04:10 #12

• EricCarr

  TPB kicks ass.
  

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  9.11.2007 04:28 #13

• Deznaj

  Yup, Pirate Bay is the leading ship in the torrent-site armada. But I'm afraid they catch so much wind that they will become a very obvious target for organisations like the Dutch BREIN (Bastard Retards Enabling Insane N*zi-practices or something like that) and that they will be taken down hard. Well, they will try. But I think nothing short of a nuke will stop The Pirate Bay!
  

  Greetz Deznaj

  19.11.2007 10:46 #14

• 7thsinger

  Keep going TPB. You've got my support!
  

  And Shepards we shall be...

  19.11.2007 11:03 #15