On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Razer
piratebay.red mirror isn't in Sweden
Don't know if that one, or any of dozens the "the pirate bay" domains, other than .org / .se / .onion are operated by "the pirate bay". Maybe yes, maybe no. If no, maybe they a true mirror via api, or a scrape, or an import of some scrape / dump appended with subsequent submissions... but still not technically "the pirate bay". And a number of them have interface and or dataset differences, or are broken. Though the hydra meme and model of random popups is certainly fine for those that like playing whack a mole, it's really legacy. Torrenting data itself, once you have the infohash and queried DHT / PEX for peers, and joined into swarm, is reasonably distributed among contributing peers. (Availability there is human, not algorithmic decision, which other networks try to solve.) But what tools are there to publish the torrent name and infohash into a fully distributed index, and to search the names and retrieve infohash from it? And to learn and maintain an in flux list of random active nodes you need to contact to bootstrap your client's DHT? That's not TPB central server index and search model. And decentral bootstrap isn't in clients like vuze or transmission. It's more like a blockchain (or just a log) index, over darknet.