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Sorry. I was mistaken it didn't go open source, the proxybay was literally proxies to the main site and now all of them are down. You can in fact download a copy of every torrent and magnet link, then build your own site that searches through them.

Magnet links are just a short string of text so one who does isn't hosting anything as far as I'm concerned. That isn't the law apparently.

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> all of them are down

If you mean all the 'thepiratebay' domains, I think you are mistaken. This one works for me:

https://thepiratebay.cr/

haven't tried any else yet

That's not a pirate bay domain in the sense that they own it. It's just a proxy and so as the main site is down, that is too.

500 Internal Server Error

If the page loads that doesn't mean it works correctly.

i tried searching for "test" just to see and got a pop up that said my computer was infected. the one time i use the pirate bay...anyone else willing to check it out and see if it actually installs malware? i was using chrome.

Works for me: http://i.imgur.com/GD3rZuv.png but it wasn't earlier. Got the same error.

You are getting some text with a picture, that is not a working site.

No, you won't be able to search for anything. That site just proxies your searches to thepiratebay.se, which is down.

It now searches just fine.

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