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Soon The Pirate Bay will be handed off to its new owners and who knows what exactly is going to happen to the site. Torrent Freak has reported that they plan to turn it into a 100% legal pay site. With that in mind it means The Pirate Bay as we know it will be dead in a few days, but one fan has taken the time to index over 800,000 torrents and packaged all the tools he made and used into one massive 20gb torrent.

Included in the torrent:

• tpb.db – The database (22 855 875 584 bytes).
• tpbspider.7z – Author’s spider program.
• htdocs.7z – The mockup website.
• lighttpd.conf – Some rewrite rules you need to use the mockup website.
• pubring.key – Author’s public key

So what do you actually do with all this data? Well, if you would like to download any of these torrents simply change the torrent’s announce url to Open Bittorrent and you should be set.

In an attempt to give back to the torrenting community and to keep The Pirate Bay alive, and more importantly the principles behind it, I am currently downloading and seeding this on my 100mbit seedbox. There are very few seeders so the download is a bit slow, but since I have started this last night, there has been a constant 3-5 mb/s upload. As of writing this I have 6gb downloaded, 154gb of upload with a ratio of 25.

Update

Its been 6 days since I started seeding, actually 5 days with the current box it has been seeding on (story and another guide to come) and so far I have uploaded 3.3 TB with a ratio of 159. It was going a constant 8-10 mb/s upload for the first 4 days, it sort of drops off everyonce in a while now. I will probably seed a little bit more, then put it on pause to see what happens to TPB and possibly start seeding again after that.