In a few short days torrent linking site The Pirate Bay as we know it will be at an end as it passes to new owners hoping to turn the site into a legal, paid service.
However, before this happens, regular users and fans of The Pirate Bay are making a backup of the entire site on their computers’ hard drives … just in case the deal with buyers Global Gaming Factory does not bode well for their downloading habits.
As reported by torrent news site TorrentFreak.com, this is not as big an undertaking as it sounds: an entire copy of The Pirate Bay, as it exists right now, is 21.3GB in size and stored in one large torrent.
This backup comprises of a mockup site along with the 873,671 torrent files hosted on The Pirate Bay’s servers. The other million plus files found by visitors to The Pirate Bay are not in fact stored by the site but rather tracked by it.
The anonymous Pirate Bay fan who create the large torrent told TorrentFreak the reason for his doing so: “I suppose I want us to have assurances. If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again.”
