The Pirate Bay is about to become untouchable, and here's how
http://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-plans-to-beat-censorship-for-good-140105/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29
[quote]The Pirate Bay’s PirateBrowser just hit 2.5 million downloads but the notorious torrent site has much bigger plans in store for the new year. The team behind the site is developing a new tool that doesn’t rely on domain names or server farms. Instead, users will serve as the P2P hosts of the sites, with the system running its own alternative DNS. Today, the Pirate Bay team shares some more details on the technology.[/quote]
Here's how it'll work.
[quote]“The goal is to create a browser-like client to circumvent censorship, including domain blocking, domain confiscation, IP-blocking. This will be accomplished by sharing all of a site’s indexed data as P2P downloadable packages, that are then browsed/rendered locally,” a Pirate Bay insider explains.[/quote]
Very interesting system that TPB is working on right now. Will be very interesting to see how the final version works. I mean, if they can successfully pull this off, TPB will be practically untouchable from now on, so copyright holders will have to go after the other torrent sites instead of TPB, because with this new system, there's not a central place for you to take down, it's a whole network consisting of millions of people.
TPB, you clever bastards, you're geniuses.
TPB is dying since we now have Spotify and Netflix widely available. I don't think this new system is going to be that popular, it's too complicated. People won't want to download a new browser just to download a movie.
And it won't be untouchable. If they could shut down The Silk Road (even if it was because of a mistake by its creator) then they can shut down this. It'll probably take quite some time though.