The Pirate Bay stop using torrents - now using magnet links

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Originally Posted by peteyt

Kind of get it but unsure how it will make the fight between the law and them any different - no matter what ways they do they'll still come down on them for giving people access to copyrighted content.

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Because instead of hosting torrents which are links to files they're hosting links to torrents which link to files. They're even more in the clear than Google at this point really. Technically they're just hosting checksums of torrents (And checksums can correspond to more than one thing) so they're seriously covering their asses.