Save the Pirate Bay! (Literally ;p )
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Pirate Bay may soon be gone. But thanks to the efforts of an anonymous fan posting on, Yup, TPB, it won’t be forgotten.
“This is a copy of the TPB index,” says the TPB chronicler, going on »»»
I crawled their index and since I don’t have the hardware necessary to deploy it to the public, I have decided to release the database.
Remember that all torrents from TPB now have the new tracker openbittorrent.com included, so they will continue to track even after the TPB tracker shuts down.
I have included the program I made to crawl the index, and a mockup website that can read the database.
The database itself is an sqlite3 database.
The index has 873671 torrents, ranging from id 3211594 to 5051940 (2009-08-13).
I only got 873671 torrents, but according to the website the tracker tracks over 2 million torrents.
The discrepancy is most likely due to many torrent files including the TPB tracker but has not been uploaded to the web site.
All my code is in the public domain. Do whatever you want with it!
I have included a public key in case I ever want to claim credit.
Contents:
/tpb.db – The database (22 855 875 584 bytes).
/tpbspider.7z – The program I made to copy TPB.
/htdocs.7z – The mockup website.
/lighttpd.conf – Some rewrite rules you need to use the mockup website.
/pubring.key – My public key.
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Edit: Metainfo that is included is the title, category, upload date, size, rating and description of all the torrents. It does not include comments or the uploader’s username.
Where there’s a will, there’s way.
BitTorrent is, these days, corporate owned. But it’s still out there and going strong.
Now … http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5053827
(Cheers, Lars)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
soon be gone – The Pirate Bay: t-shirts and tattoos, August 14, 2009
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August 18th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Sorry for not understanding online databases and such, but what EXACTLY does this index that is talked about here actually get us?? Is it a way to not lose the trackers that TBP has online???
please stw!
August 18th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
i think (not completely sure though) the main benefit is essentially that you will have all the torrent files, from which you can start the download even after TPB is gone, assuming that the torrent is set with at least another alive tracker
Right now 4 seeders and 3500 leechers, for 21.3 GB.. WOW!