OpenBitTorrent
OpenBitTorrent ( OBT ) is an open, freely usable BitTorrent tracker operated from Sweden . As a non-commercial project, it is run with donations.
After the shutdown of the formerly world's largest tracker from The Pirate Bay in November 2009, a large part of the torrent offers previously served via the Pirate Bay tracker complex can now be found at OBT and is searchable and accessible through external torrent hosting and indexing sites . OBT is to a large extent succeeding the legendary Pirate Bay. OBT has also led to a number of imitation projects itself.
OBT does not host torrent ( metadata ) files and does not offer indexing services. This contributed to the fact that an initial lawsuit by the film industry was initially overcome without consequences. Furthermore, OBT, although it is operated in Sweden, offers a takedown procedure in accordance with the DMCA .
OBT started in February 2009 and was hosted until August on servers owned by DCP Networks (employer of Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij ), who have experience running large BitTorrent trackers as they also hosted the Pirate Bay tracker. Therefore, the OBT tracker also had an address in the same IP range and was mistaken for a Pirate Bay follow-up project by the Pirate Bay people. OBT is now hosted on Portlane's own servers. In November the film industry tried to get a court order to shut down the tracker by filing a lawsuit against the hoster Portlane at the Stockholm District Court. The lawsuit was denied. A follow-up negotiation is expected in the summer of 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ torrentfreak.com/openbittorrent-tracker-muscles-in-on-the-old-pirate-bay
- ↑ torrentfreak.com/court-refuses-to-order-shutdown-of-openbittorrent