Not satisfied with merely launching The Old Pirate Bay, torrent site isoHunt today debuted The Open Bay, which lets anyone deploy their own version of The Pirate Bay online. This is achieved via a new six-step wizard, which the group says requires you to be somewhat tech-savvy and have “minimal knowledge of how the Internet and websites work.”

The Pirate Bay, the most popular file sharing website on the planet, went down last week following police raids on its data center in Sweden. As we’ve noted before, The Old Pirate Bay appears to be the best alternative at the moment, but since The Pirate Bay team doesn’t know if it’s coming back yet, there is still a huge hole left to be filled.

In fact, The Pirate Bay recently said that if its site code wasn’t “so shitty,” the team would make it public “so that everyone could start their own bay.” isoHunt.to, the isoHunt of today which has no relation to the original isoHunt.com nor its staff, wants to do just that, although of course it’s offering its own code, not The Pirate Bay’s.

To launch your own torrent site, you’ll need some basic server equipment, hosting, and your own domain name. isoHunt is giving access to its own database and its Spinx search engine, but you can use whatever source you’d like.

In fact, the company has released a torrent database file with the combined content from isoHunt, KickassTorrents (via its public API), and The Old Pirate Bay. That said, isoHunt admitted to VentureBeat that there isn’t much original content unique to just The Pirate Bay:

When we started to recollect data after the TPB police raid across the web not a lot of pure information was found. We started to separate our own data to find the torrents that were taken from TPB for the last year. So partially our databases are mixed.

The team goes on to explain that this is because public trackers are constantly checking each other to grab new torrents, resulting in a lot of overlap. When new files are uploaded to one torrent site, they are available everywhere else in a matter of minutes. In short, whatever you end up building via The Open Bay, you’ll be joining the broader torrent swarm.

isoHunt has also open sourced the code for The Open Bay project on GitHub. The goal is to let the broader file-sharing community build new functions and features for “the distributed TPB” so that it can continue to improve.

The group says its hope is that this will spur the creation of thousands of websites like The Old Pirate Bay, making it impossible for authorities to shut them down all at once. “This way we want to show everybody that ideas are immortal and belong to everybody,” isoHunt said in a statement.

Of course, that’s nothing new: There are many torrent sites out there, large and small, and new ones arrive every year. Yet unless The Pirate Bay decides to come back, there is a lot of hype around the brand that many want to capitalize on, and now they can do so with ease.