Goodbye, Pirate Bay. Hello, Pirate Bay. A couple of days ago we wrote about a very special torrent, which contained a copy of the entire Pirate Bay with most of the torrents in its database. Now, someone has put it to use: you can find a fully functional copy of the Pirate Bay over at btarena.net.

The new site is not exactly the same as the old one, and some of The Pirate Bay's functions, such as links to related content, are missing, but who cares? It works, and the torrents are there, so users can keep visiting the new site almost as if nothing has changed.

Of course, whether the new site will remain as popular as the original Pirate Bay (new torrents will be tracked via tracker.btarena.org) remains to be seen, but the simple fact has once again been proven: you can turn one torrent tracker off, but new ones will always appear and take over. The entertainment industry would do well if they stopped bothering with lawsuits towards individual services and started working on being competitive in light of new marketplace rules, brought forth by the internet.





