With the future of the Pirate Bay still up in the air, an anonymous user has created an archive of the torrent indexing site just in case things don't go well with its acquisition and transition into a "legitimate" service.
The user has made a mostly complete archive of The Pirate bay and all of its 873,671 hosted torrents available as a 21.3 GB download. The Pirate Bay's tracker claims to track over 2 million torrents, but most of these were not hosted by the Pirate Bay.
The description of the archive says, "I crawled their index and since I don't have the hardware necessary to deploy it to the public, I have decided to release the database. Remember that all torrents from TPB now have the new tracker openbittorrent.com included, so they will continue to track even after the TPB tracker shuts down. I have included the program I made to crawl the index, and a mockup Web site that can read the...sqlite3 database."
TorrentFreak spoke to the creator of the archive, who said, "I suppose I want us to have assurances. If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again."
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