The world’s largest BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bay, as reported previously, will stop linking to .torrent files shortly and
TPB told TorrentFreak that one of the advantages to a “magnet site” is that it requires little bandwidth to host a proxy site. A proxy site is required as TPB is blocked in many countries, and is of course, going to increase. Think it can’t happen? Well, Pirate Bay user “allisfine” was intrigued by this idea, and has decided to find out just how small a copy of TPB would be. He told TorrentFreak:
I did a complete snapshot of ALL the Pirate Bay torrents, in case somebody wants to close it or something similarly crazy.
“The injunction, which was granted without an oral hearing, stated that CB3ROB and Managing Director Sven Olaf Kamphuis were now prohibited from connecting The Pirate Bay website and its servers to the Internet,” wrote Ernesto of Torrent Freak.