The Pirate Bay: Torrents and Peers Double in 2007

**Broken** · 12-26-2007, 06:23 PM

The Pirate Bay: Torrents and Peers Double in 2007

Hollywood had hoped otherwise, but it has been a good year for The Pirate Bay, despite all the legal hassles. The Pirate Bay now tracks nearly 1 million torrents and over 8 million peers at any given point in time. This is quite a change compared to last year, and there is no sign that this trend will stop anytime soon.

December 2006
576.080 torrents,
4.274.698 peers

December 2007
914.717 torrents
8.390.682 peers

The growth of The Pirate Bay is in part due to the problems at Demonoid had this year and the fact that Isohunt (TorrentBox) disabled access for US users to their trackers because of the issues they have with the MPAA.

Demonoid and TorrentBox were the second and the fourth most used public BitTorrent tracker respectively, so this was a great loss. It is estimated that approximately 50% of all public .torrent files are now tracked by The Pirate Bay, it is scary to imagine what will happen if their servers will stop working.

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Source: http://torrentfreak.com/

**anak** · 12-27-2007, 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by Broken

it is scary to imagine what will happen if their servers will stop working.

One word: Hydra. 1 splits into 2, 2 into 4, 4 into 8, 8 into 16 - until each tracker (probably all private at the end) is so small that it would be financial suicide for the RIAA to monitor and subsequently sue all, or even some of them.

It is scary to think what would take the place of the RIAA when it is finally realized that their tactics don't work. Maybe the government? In other words, will the people really sacrifice their right to internet privacy in order to protect the intellectual property rights of the musicians and the distributive rights of the RIAA?