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A couple of weeks ago, Swedish police raided the offices where The Pirate Bay’s servers were being kept, essentially knocking them offline . Well unsurprisingly in the process, many The Pirate Bay copies have sprung up , one of them courtesy of the folks at IsoHunt who have also released The Open Bay.

For those unfamiliar, The Open Bay basically allows anyone, regardless of their knowledge of how the internet works, to deploy their own version of The Pirate Bay using backup databases of the original The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, and Kickass Torrents. Of course there are probably all sorts of legal ramifications to someone who decides to deploy their own The Pirate Bay, but the point is that anyone can do it.

So how popular is IsoHunt’s The Open Bay project? Well as it turns out it is pretty popular as they claim that they have discovered that about 372 copies of The Pirate Bay have since come online as a result of The Open Bay. The project has also been forked 522 times and starred 1,831 times on GitHub, making it this week’s most popular project.

In an email the IsoHunt team released to VentureBeat, “In as much as the original Pirate Bay future is uncertain it would be certainly fair to let Old Pirate Bay go in the caring hands of this community. Our current goal is not only make it open source, but eventually provide fully decentralized torrent database for the community.”

Ironically enough despite law enforcement officials knocking down one of the largest torrent websites, a few hundred others have sprung up in its place so if anything it certainly looks like an uphill battle from here on out.

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