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ThePirateBay.se Should Put Magnet Links in Meta Descriptions

2 pointsjwblackwell6 comments

After The Pirate Bay got banned by major ISPs in the U.K. I was thinking about how they might help users circumvent the block.

Seeing as the site still appears in Google, Google is essentially hosting a copy of The Pirate Bay in it's cache available for all UK users (http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.thepiratebay.se). Which makes you wonder why they don't ban Google and other search engines. That aside...

I think this would be an interesting experiment - if The Pirate Bay put direct torrent links in their meta descriptions, they would likely start appearing in Google.

That would then essentially make Google == The Pirate Bay. As all The Pirate Bay does anyway is host the torrent links and no actual content.

What are your thoughts?

By "torrent link" you mean the actual content of the magnet hash?

I have to admit I forgot they put they switched over to magnet entirely (I'm not actually that bigger torrent user).

But yeah same effect - although links may need to be shortened - it wouldn't be hard to knock up a quick redirect service to make nice friendly short urls.

They would then have extra space for number of seeders, leeches and any other descriptive info.

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But if you don't have access to the site, why would it even help to have a different link? If the pirate bay is blocked, you still can't download the file.

You don't have to download anything. A magnet link is not connected to a file on the server.

But yeah same effect - although links may need to be shortened - it wouldn't be hard to knock up a quick redirect service to make nice friendly short urls.

This is the part I don't understand. How does having a URL help?

hmm..maybe he thinks about a third party service to shorten the urls. I don't see an advantage in shorting urls, but IMHO the idea with magnet links inside google is great..

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