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February 9, 2012 10:41 pm GMT
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Avast, Me Hearties: How The Pirate Bay Changed The Way We Steal
The Pirate Bay, in many ways, is disappearing. It is one of the most popular torrent sites on the web and its database of millions of torrent files - essentially pointers to pieces of files hosted elsewhere - has long been the go-to spot for budding pirates around the world. While it still exists in spirit, the admins are now moving all of the torrent files off the site and are instead offering magnet links. This is an important distinction that will move the locus of general piracy from a single site to any number of sites, reducing the Pirate Bays importance as a source.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/AnwERXqN1rY/
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