Nov 18 2009I'll Miss You: Pirate Bay Tracker Shut Down
Well folks, it happened. The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker officially kicked the bucket yesterday. What does this mean for Pirate Bay users?
Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.
"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" the Pirate Bay crew write on their blog.
And what does this mean for iTunes users?
iTunes sucks, there's no porn on iTunes.
HELL YES I QUOTED MYSELF IN AN ARTICLE! I know shit -- I can say things!
The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good [torrentfreak]
Thanks to Bill, who hasn't paid for music since the Green Jellö cassette with 'Three Little Pigs'.
Reader Comments
1. somerandomguy - November 18, 2009 4:38 PM
1st.....just sayin.
2. George Washington - November 18, 2009 4:38 PM
fristtttttt
3. Closet Nerd - November 18, 2009 4:39 PM
I never knew computers were used for things other than porn.... just sayin.
4. Dishy Dishyington - November 18, 2009 4:44 PM
I never knew computers were used for things other than Geekologie.
5. TopBanana - November 18, 2009 4:44 PM
I was just on the site downloading . . . . . . music, YES music!! . . . . . like 10 min ago and it kept giving me an search engine overload. This explains it all =-(
6. naas - November 18, 2009 4:46 PM
I never knew computers were used for anything, just sayin
7. giggity - November 18, 2009 4:49 PM
dood. Green Jello is some messed up shit.
In this best way possible.
!
.
8. skeletor - November 18, 2009 4:50 PM
@2-http://palmwebos.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/vader-fail.jpg
we will miss you pb
9. Time Traveller - November 18, 2009 4:53 PM
And don't forget Demonoid's temporary issues...
10. Closet Nerd - November 18, 2009 4:55 PM
Food Network (in HD) is porn for fat people and
Geekologie is porn for geeks
.... just sayin
11. I-Kill-Bambi's - November 18, 2009 4:59 PM
porn is porn for me...just sayin
12. Closet Nerd - November 18, 2009 5:02 PM
Porn is my mornig wake-up show.
You gotta "kill a kitten" every morning (for your health).... just saying.
http://doubledeckerbuses.org/blog/media/blogs/new/God-kills-kitten.jpg
13. ~☻,_∫∫ ∕∕-][ Ỵ ([¦¦ ([]) ][-¦¦ ☻~ - November 18, 2009 5:03 PM
they sucked near the end anyways
14. asdf - November 18, 2009 5:18 PM
So I'm confused. I'm a long time TPB user, but I never understood trackers. Anyone care to explain?
15. Dave963 - November 18, 2009 5:31 PM
I cant believe it.... the best and probably only tracker out there! and now its gone V_V
Its a damn shame to see you go TPB....
Every time i see that 404 ill know that this is the grave of the best site in the world...
I even bought their shirt!
16. nfo - November 18, 2009 5:46 PM
@15 haha "the only tracker"
really?
17. Merpolymotapus - November 18, 2009 6:12 PM
HOLY CRAP!!
I was just downloading Green Jello Little pigs. No SHIT!!
And the daterape song by sublime.
True story I was there.
18. austinjames - November 18, 2009 6:31 PM
isohunt works well enough
19. me - November 18, 2009 6:40 PM
@3 those sites are only used for porn, so your belief is still valid
20. me - November 18, 2009 6:41 PM
@18... i concur
21. Tylith - November 18, 2009 10:14 PM
@18/20
Isohunt uses other sites trackers, like TPB. It's just a search engine.
22. Maxwell Nathan Frankenstein - November 19, 2009 12:15 AM
I had that Green Jello album on tape, and I also had the accompanying VHS tape with a video for each song. Man those were good times. I should go torrent that album...
23. infant - November 19, 2009 4:09 AM
I never knew computers were used
24. Jaded Icon - November 19, 2009 8:27 AM
I never knew that "infant" never knew computers were used.......just saying.
25. gir - November 19, 2009 9:00 AM
Just sayin... computers were used, never knew anything but porn
26. Ollie Williams - November 19, 2009 9:10 AM
Stupid article. The DHT system is just as reliable for peer sharing as the previous tracker. I downloaded quite a few things last night, transfers work well, if not better with more reliable peer counts, than ever before.
27. Hero - November 19, 2009 10:26 AM
Exact. Everything is right guys. The tracker was down for a long time, and now is closed forever. DHT is the future.
And The Pirate bay is NOT closing down.....
28. Ollie Williams - November 19, 2009 12:58 PM
And by "stupid article" I mean the article, not that GW posted it. You know I love you in a strictly gay way.
29. Doug - November 19, 2009 2:26 PM
noooo! now where will I get music and porn? oh yeah, just everywhere else on the internet
30. LameCake - November 19, 2009 3:28 PM
I love torrents and mininova FTW
TPB kinda sucked at the end, but the fact that it's trackers are gone, does bring up an issue for most.
31. jacob Valenta - November 19, 2009 4:42 PM
I dont think you guys get it at all... TPB didnt shut down, they are still dishing out the torrents. just the tracker. the track tells your computer other poepl that are downloading the same thing and hooks you up with them. there i somthing called DHT and that also acts as a tracker. it is a new thing, so TPB has moved out of the 'era' or trackers and in to this new one.
32. WhiteFire25 - November 19, 2009 7:18 PM
Good job!!! Now they only have to shut down the other 3, 556, 765 sites out there that let us do this stuff.
Don't even know why they bother anymore.
33. bob - November 20, 2009 1:41 AM
Bugger bugger bugger. in butt.
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