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Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by sharmi on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:54AM (#15921095)
For the one TPB that has survived, there are several file sharing websites (decent ones that are actually usable) and torrent sites that have been pulled down and the copyright owners have prevailed. I think this more points to the technical acumen of the ppl behind TPB.

I am not taking strong sides against or for fighting piracy. I do hope the greater share of the profits do end up with the original authors and not the content distributors.

Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by digi_owl on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:20AM (#15921435)
These days TPB is little more than a indexer of magnet links.

I think there was a claim floating around that one could offer all the TPB magnet links in a simple text file that would be a maybe a MB in size.

Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by anc84 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:16AM (#15921678)
It's more but not even 100MB: https://archive.org/details/pirate-bay-torrent-dumps-2004-20...

This does not include the descriptions though.

Also check out https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by Teever on Thursday December 14, 2017 @08:02AM (#15921919)
I downloaded it once. The entire catalog of TPB in magnet link form worked out to 63mb zipped IIRC.