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Son, in this house we respect Russel's paradox!

The BT Infohash is mostly a hash of the hashes of the blocks + file names + a couple of other things. Notably the list of trackers is not part of the infohash, so adding trackers to a torrent file does not affect the hash.

If you're really interested, install the Python module bencode, and use it to de-serialize a .torrent file.

The thing is, new torrents are uploaded to Pirate Bay all the time, so one can only archive TPB in any given moment - which has to be, of course, before the creation of this torrent.

The archive is static, the TPB database is dynamic :)