TPB: No more .torrents - Tracker completely switched to magnet links

Since yesterday, Pirate Bay has completely abandoned storing .torrent files on its servers. Now distribution can be downloaded only on magnet-links, the benefit almost all modern torrent clients know how to work with them.



In this regard, the following post appeared in the resource blog:

Today is the end of another era. Well, or something like that



TPB will no longer use .torrent files. The reason is simple - they take up a lot of space and we spend a lot of time on them

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Instead, we offer you Magnet links. They are easier for us and do not complicate your life. They provide more flexibility than .torrent, and require less resources for mirroring distributions. And yet, the magnet link is just a hash placed on each page with distribution, so no one will know if you downloaded the file or not.

In addition, the administration of the resource complained about the growing level of censorship on the Internet, especially in several EU countries. And she said that ThePirateBay team will do everything in its power not to restrict the freedom of its users.



Interestingly, the legal aspect of this innovation for the owners of the resource themselves is not mentioned anywhere in the blog. After all, now, in the absence of .torrent files, it will be even harder for the courts to prove the guilt of the owners of the tracker in the distribution of illegal content.



UPD: As rightly noted in the comments , .torrent files are still in some distributions. Another TPB blog post says that the .torrent files will only be available for hands that have less than 10 peers. After reaching this amount, only magnet will remain in the distribution.

thx to Power