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Pirate Bay Drops Trackers, Converts to “Magnet Links”
Swedish BitTorrent site tracker site further decentralizes content distribution, and in fact decides not to run a tracker anymore. Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay has taken content distribution to the next level with the introduction of site-wide magnet links that let you download a torrent directly into your BitTorrent client, instead of your browser. The main purpose of magnet links is to give people an alternative way of getting the torrent file should websites hosting torrents like The Pirate Bay go down, and already supported by most BitTorrent clients like uTorrent and Vuze, which get all relevant data via the Distributed Hash Table (DHT) network.
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The Pirate Bay — or the latest rev after unsuccessful entertainment industry efforts to close it down — has changed it ways. It’s decided trackers are passé and that “magnet links”are where’s at. Magnets, invented by Gordon Mohr , allow websites to link to content on p2p networks, p2pnet posted in 2004, going on: “If you’ve installed a p2p app that works with Magnets , clicking a link will trigger a download within the application and it’ll start automatically.” uTorrent and Vuze are examples.
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