Pirate Bay changes from torrent file hosting to magnetic links

If you are the pirating sort that likes to download torrent files from Pirate Bay, some changes are coming. Apparently, Pirate Bay is making some moves to reduce the bandwidth needed for the site and allow fans of the site to access the website offline. Traditionally the site has hosted the torrent feeds for download.
That is now changing with Pirate Bay eliminating the torrent file hosting directly and moving to what is called a magnetic link. The magnetic link is now the default method of download and according to an insider at Pirate Bay “in a month or so” there will be no more hosted torrent files on the site. TorrentFreak says that moving to magnetic links means that very little will ch... »read more

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