Confessions of a Keytarist

Now that their  once-prodigious and heralded safe haven “The Pirate Bay” is effectively suffering a hiatus whilst it’s previous captains appeal against their guilty trial verdict, it seems some of the users have started pillaging their old home and starting up their own ports of call on the internet’s high seas.

There were plans for a company called Global Gaming Factory (GFF) to take over control of The Pirate Bay, in a 60m kronor (£3.5m) acquisition, but it looks like those plans may have fallen through as GFF haven’t (so far) proved they actually HAVE 60m kronor.

Earlier this week, one anonymous user posted a web-rip of The Pirate Bay, including all 900,000 torrents,  back on the site as a single 21GB torrent download. He (or she) stated “If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again”.

However, various other users have already started “clones” of The Pirate Bay, using the massive torrent database download.
Sites such as http://www.btarena.net/ have already experienced overwhelming demand as the pirates set sail from their old bay in search of new homes…