While the BitTorrent protocol is, but its very nature, decentralized, the same cannot be said of torrent search engines such as the Pirate Bay. Torrent-Paradise, however, is a little different. A new version of the site uses the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to provide decentralized torrent searching. The idea behind how the system works is very similar to the way BitTorrent makes it possible to download files without the need for a central host. There are numerous benefits to this type of decentralization. It means that files -- or, in this case, search results -- can be shared between large…
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