The contents of The Pirate Bay fit in 90 megabytes

According to TorrentFreak, the contents of the torrent tracker The Pirate Bay fit into an archive of 90 megabytes.

It was possible to achieve such a small size by using magnet links instead of torrent files . Torrent-files are small, in several tens of kilobytes, data volumes containing information about files and servers (trackers) through which these files are distributed. In contrast, magnet links are text strings that point to the corresponding files by their unique identifier.

Representatives of The Pirate Bay reported about plans to abandon the storage of Torrent files in favor of magnet links in mid-January 2012. Then they pointed out that one of the advantages of such a change would be the small amount of disk space that the resource occupies on the server.
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According to TorrentFreak, the user allisfine decided to check this statement and launched a script that collected information about the files being distributed and magnet links to them from the service pages. In total, more than 1.6 million torrents were collected in this way, and the total database size was 164 megabytes, or 90 megabytes in an archived form.

This archive allisfine posted on The Pirate Bay. In the description for the distribution, he writes that he was surprised by the small number of files that he managed to find, since the main page of the torrent tracker speaks of almost 4.5 million. TorrentFreak explains the discrepancy that the statistics on the site takes into account the number of files on several public torrent portals.

The Pirate Bay is the world's largest torrent tracker. In early February 2012, the service moved to the domain zone .se, owned by Sweden. The administration took such a step in order to protect itself against a possible blocking of a domain in the international .org zone.

Source: Lenta.ru