In an effort to evade anti-piracy crusaders, Pirate Bay has recently landed in Peru, switching to the nation’s .pe domain. However, this is ultimately a temporary move, as work is currently underway to make Pirate Bay an entity that can thwart copyright holders and their stables of lawyers permanently.
A BitTorrent-powered Web browser, dubbed PirateBrowser, is currently in the works and, once it’s completed, those who use and download content from Pirate Bay and other sites will be able to share files while eschewing the requirement for a central host, effectively decentralizing torrent services. While seizures of domains can deter a torrent site now, once development of PirateBrowser is completed and released to the public, Pirate Bay seems supremely confident that copyright holders won’t be able to stand a chance to step up their policing efforts.
“They should wait for our new PirateBrowser, then domains will be irrelevant,” a Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak. “Once that is available then all links and sites will be accessible through a perfectly legal piece of browser software and the rest of it will be P2P, with no central point to attack via the legal system. By their actions they finally brought on the next generation of decentralized services.”
On top of the browser, browser extensions that aim to serve the same purpose are in development for both Firefox and Chrome. This comes after Google banned several Chrome browser extensions that allowed torrent users to search through their favorite torrent sites for content.
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