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/
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