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The mysterious string of characters published on the original The Piratebay domain is a BitTorrent Sync key. With the key it’s possible to gain access to a shared folder containing The Piratebay torrent database.

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Yesterday the original The Piratebay domain thepiratebay.se came alive again. Besides a pirate flag image, hosted by the Isohunt, the site showed the amount of time elapsed since the Swedish police raided the datacenter in Sweden where the Piratebay was (partly) hosted. The site also showed an AES key which according to the Isohunt Twitter account is a BitTorrent Sync key, which allows to share folders.

The folder shared with the key contains all .torrent files of The Piratebay, and a readme file with the text:

– Place your stuff in the right categories

– Keep the 6 categories that TPB had

— Audio, Video, Applications, Games, Porn and Other

– IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net – #tpbbtsync If they cut off one head, two more shall take it’s place… Hail HYDRA!

The latter refers to a Greek mythological figure we reported about earlier today. The fact that the The Piratebay database is now distributed over Bittorrent Sync might indicate the site will never come back in it’s original form.

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