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The Pirate Bay Shuts Down
Even if you don't under stand the "how" behind bittorrents, you know that in the passed a tracker was needed. Now with trackerless torrents the Pirate Bay has decided to shut down its tracker and switch to decentralized distributed hash table (DHT) technology for pointing to torrent sources.
Through DHT technology, users seeking torrents access a dedicated DHT network, and find peers for the actual downloads. So, effectively, The Pirate Bay is seeking to avoid centralizing tracked torrents and services in such a way that it can stay free of legal problems.
Posted by | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 - 07:21 AM
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