The Pirate Bay Mark II
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- On Monday p2pnet ran a story telling The Pirate Bay fans how they could save the site.
Quite literally.
Having for years been a mainstay of the net, it’s about to go under and while, like Napster, it’ll be resuscitated, there’s no chance of it ever being returned to its former glory.
Instead, it’ll become just another corporate site owing allegiance to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, paying only lip-service (if even that) to the people they’re suing in the hope their bizarre marketing campaign will keep them all in business.
But along came the the TPB chronicler, stating, “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.”
The result? A downloadable 21.3-gig torrent created by anonymous devotee who told TorrentFreak:
I suppose I want us to have assurances. If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again.
Now, says the story, the mystery revivalist is still hard work and although search is disabled, “due to high server load,” it’ll be recoded and returned soon.
But, adds TorrentFreak, user comments aren’t included in the TPB Mk II.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
save the site – Save the Pirate Bay! (Literally ;p ), August 17, 2009
about to go under – The Pirate Bay: t-shirts and tattoos, August 14, 2009
TorrentFreak – Torrented Pirate Bay Copy Comes To Life, August 20, 2009
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August 20th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
someone needs to index the comments @ publish them integrated into the database. If you know how to do
this please do. I would do it but don’t have the resources to deploy the operation.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Yes I burn it and save it away on DVD.
it’s took me 6 DVD.
However at least two duplicate of the entire site content is already on line and accesible via the bittorrent clients.
Re-deploying TBP will otherwise take a lot of resources and a significant amont of money.
So the original TPB is still there. Once again the entertainment parasites has done nothing, save for dangeroulsly increasing public discourse against themselves further.
These are dinosaur’s brains in action, you know what makes them extinct.
August 20th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
That’s cool. I already crawled the /legal section months ago to preserve that before it goes away. I don’t use TBP much anymore so the site itself does not really matter to me. You can find my rips by searching for user Tatsh. My question is what about the really good servers that TPB provided for torrents not found on TBP but indexers (like NewTorrents, and many torrents you find on isoHunt)? Will we have replacements? That is really what made people use TPB, not the site itself.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:41 am
@Dr. Shasta
I’ve downloaded all the comments, batched ‘em, archived ‘em. They’re just HTML pages for now but I’ll convert to XML/SQL and re-release for would-be TPB2 administrators to implement at a later date.
The address for the torrent is:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5063743
August 21st, 2009 at 4:45 am
@ method
Thanks! This will benefit many people so much. I can’t thank you enough….