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Initially, The Pirate Bay's four Linux servers ran a custom web server called Hypercube. An old version is open-source. [55] On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2 HTTP requests per millisecond on each of the four web servers, [56] as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the front-end of the website.
The world's largest tracker at The Pirate Bay switched from their selfmade software Hypercube to opentracker in the end of 2007. [6] The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation uses it to distribute their own TV shows. [7] Popular public torrent trackers opentrackr [8] [9] and coppersurfer [4] are known to use opentracker.
A BitTorrent tracker is a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol.. In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of the requested file residing on peer machines are sent to the client, and then reassembled into a full copy of the requested file.
On April 17, 2009, a Swedish court convicted four men operating The Pirate Bay Internet site of criminal copyright infringement. [8] The Pirate Bay was established in 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån to provide information needed to download film or music files from third parties, many of whom copied the files without ...
It’s that time of the year: Dutch internet service providers have once again been forced to block access to notorious torrenting portal The Pirate Bay. A new verdict requires local internet ...
Public torrent-hosting sites such as The Pirate Bay allow users to search and download from their collection of torrent files. Users can typically also upload torrent files for content they wish to distribute.
October 10 – An appeal by The Pirate Bay's lawyers succeeds in lifting the Italian ban. October 29 – Morpheus website taken down; client is no longer available. November 27 – A Danish court rules that ISPs must block access to the website The Pirate Bay. [106] [107] December 16 – ShareReactor is reopened by The Pirate Bay. [108]
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