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Did OpenBitTorrent just become The Pirate Bay 2.0?


When the news came down a few days ago about The Pirate Bay being sold, the community reacted strongly. Despite pleas on the official blog for users to not abandon the site, it was inevitable that the 'betrayal' many users felt would lead to a flood of account deletions.

To a number of P2P users, TPB is dead. After all, once GGF goes to work the site will likely be a hollow shell of its former self. So what will become of the massive number of torrents in their tracker?

TorrentFreak
has discovered and interesting development with OpenBitTorrent, a clever open tracker project. Haven't heard of it? Here's how the site summarizes itself:
OpenBitTorrent is a bittorrent tracker free for anyone to use. You don't need to register, upload or index a torrent anywhere, all you have to do is to include the OpenBitTorrent tracker URL in your torrent.

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