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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 11

      Anyone know how The Pirate Bay is still alive in 2018? The founders went to jail and sold it. I think it’s a nonprofit now based in Seychelles but not sure if that is up to date I asked around in their IRC recently but everyone just called me a fed and told me to fuck off

      24 replies 43 retweets 318 likes
    2. allclearsay‏ @bmelton Jul 11
      Replying to @backus

      Nice try, fed!

      1 reply 0 retweets 62 likes
    3. allclearsay‏ @bmelton Jul 11
      Replying to @bmelton @backus

      https://www.quora.com/How-is-The-Pirate-Bay-still-up-even-though-it-is-a-well-known-illegal-torrenting-website-AND-the-creator-is-in-prison …

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 11
      Replying to @bmelton

      Yeah I’ve read this, the Wikipedia, etc. The first answer to the quora question is… bizarre. The other ones are speculation or wrong. I’m just baffled because I can’t tell if we even know who is running it. IMO there is a lot to learn from the answer to this question in 2018

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    5. allclearsay‏ @bmelton Jul 11
      Replying to @backus

      So, the basic answer is that they're using magnets, which aren't files, but are links to locations of files -- so it's less illegal in that regard. Past that, they have the database index distributed across a number of different nodes, and there's also a list of domains.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    6. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 11
      Replying to @bmelton

      Yeah, magnet URLs are unrelated (although it is a legal strat) b/c the main thing is Sweden basically excommunicated TPB after US threatened sanctions. AFAIK, they publish annual archives and def distribute DB internally like you said, but I’m trying to find written confirmation

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    7. allclearsay‏ @bmelton Jul 11
      Replying to @backus

      I'm trying to remember the details of it. They posted a blog post (titled something like "TPB is now take-down proof", that laid out their strategy for making it death-proof, but I don't remember where that was posted to, or how to find it now.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 11
      Replying to @bmelton

      Yeah they describe how their request router and storage are in different countries and whatnot, I’ll find the article

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      John Backus‏ @backus Jul 11
      Replying to @backus @bmelton

      2012 https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becomes-raid-proof-121017/ … 2014 https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proof-virtual-machines-140921/ …

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