The Pirate Bay
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The Pirate Bay | |
URL | http://www.thepiratebay.org/ |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
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
Since the Pirate Bay is only a search engine nowadays, it would be preferable to simply scrape the magnet links, descriptions, and comments. Since the magnet links also include a tracker address, torrent files might just be a thing of the past (might be wrong though, but the Pirate Bay itself seems to be betting on it)
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
- The entire Pirate Bay Magnet Archive: Every magnet link on the Pirate Bay, all in a tiny little text file. No comments, though.
- Magnet Archive Viewer: Parsing text files can be a pain, so this program makes it easy to search and look at the magnet links.
- Siterip: This 3GB archive saves all the html pages from the Piratebay, including comments. No torrent files, as usual.