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OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com)
20 points by aj on July 12, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



From one of the comments on the page it looks like this is a marketing ploy:

    nslookup tracker.thepiratebay.org

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: tracker.thepiratebay.org
    Addresses: 2a01:298:3:1::2
    192.121.86.4
    192.121.86.2
    192.121.86.6
    192.121.86.3
    192.121.86.8
    192.121.86.7
    192.121.86.5

    nslookup tracker.openbittorrent.com

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: tracker.openbittorrent.com
    Addresses: 192.121.86.5
    192.121.86.8
    192.121.86.7
    192.121.86.4
    192.121.86.2
    192.121.86.3
    192.121.86.6


Yea this is just smoke and mirrors to allow the 'sale' of The Pirate Bay. In reality all they're selling is the domain name.




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