The Pirate Bay

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The Pirate Bay
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URL http://www.thepiratebay.org/
Status Online!
Archiving status Saved!
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

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The Pirate Bay is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines. It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB all over this wiki, this site is pretty dang important.

Archival Methods

We can simply scrape the magnet links, descriptions, and comments. The hard part would probably be keeping it all updated... (Maybe we could use a git repository, and pull as necessary?)

Magnet links are provided in the Pirate Bay Magnet Archive below, and descriptions and comments are in the siterip.

Archival Tools

  • Magnet link Dumper: A perl script that dumps magnet links into a single text file. It was used to make the below magnet archive.

Backups

  • Siterip: This 3GB archive saves all the html pages from the Piratebay, including comments. No torrent files, as usual.