It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives: Via Threat Level.

Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday?

The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so.

Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay’s founders.

“OpenBitTorrent is used for file sharing, and we suspect that it is the Pirate Bay tracker with a new name. It is added by default on all of the torrent tracker files on Pirate Bay,” Hollywood attorney Monique Wadsted told Swedish media.

Wadsted, TorrentFreak notes, said the tracker’s domain was originally registered by Fredrik Neij, one of the four Pirate Bay co-founders.

On its website, OpenBitTorrent denies it’s The Pirate Bay’s tracker: [ Read more ... ]