The Pirate Bay's New Network Effectively Outwits ISP Blocks
The latest resurrection of The Pirate Bay has successfully thwarted global efforts at ISP-level site blocking and other threats, giving users an easier downloading process from the site.
After its most recent resurgence following its December 2014 raid and shutdown by Swedish police, BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bay has come back stronger than ever, resisting site blocks from ISPs and circumventing DDos attacks and other shut down measures.
After the raid last year that put the site effectively offline and resulted in the arrest of a crew member, TPB rose from the ashes with a phoenix logo on its domain in Jan. 31 this year. The new site has effectively skirted threats to its current existence on the web by recruiting a middleman company to sift through the enormous amounts of traffic to thepiratebay.se.
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TPB drafted the services of CloudFare, a U.S.-based content delivery network company and domain name server system that provides online security and accelerates website performance. CloudFare not only manages TPB traffic, but its service includes a routing system that successfully hides The Pirate Bay's information from ISP's, making it difficult for them to impede access to the infamous peer-to-peer file sharing portal.
CloudFare has also provided TPB with extra security for its users with the use of Full SSL encryption, hiding their IP addresses and making it faster and easier to facilitate file sharing on the site.
This puts CloudFare in the line of legal fire if anti-piracy groups decide to hold it accountable, and TPB has announced its partnership with the service is a temporary one to handle its volume of traffic for the time being.
After TPB's contract with CloudFare ends, it may only be a matter of time before the law catches up with its copyright infringement operation and shuts it down again, unless the BitTorrent site continues to stay one step ahead of authorities and other ISP's gunning for its downfall.
