While a lot of people are fighting to take it down, The Pirate Bay is somehow still alive. But it’s not immortal.
Czech Pirate Party member Karel Bílek knows it, and he offers concerned pirates a solution: Preserve The Pirate Bay by downloading all of the site’s two million magnet links, which Bílek has compiled for the second time.
The result of Bílek’s efforts comes in two forms — a 76MB archive full of just magnet links and a larger, more interesting 631MB file that includes extra data like descriptions, file sizes, and comments.
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Above: The Pirate Bay’s torrent numbers continue to climb.
Bílek says that someone could use all that data to reconstruct The Pirate Bay if it was brought down.
More interesting than Bílek’s data, however, are the insights it gives. Besides creating an extensive (albeit somewhat outdated) replica of The Pirate Bay, the data also shows that the site continues to grow even as multiple entities across multiple contents fight to take it down.
But while The Pirate Bay is growing, most of its user activity is disproportionately focused on the newest files. Assuming Bílek’s data is correct, more than 75 percent of torrents have fewer than four seeders, making them largely useless for downloading.
As a self-professed pirate, Bílek probably hates the idea that The Pirate Bay could someday disappear, but his data could ensure it never does.
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