The Pirate Bay is using robots to clean up its polluted torrent lists

TECHi's Author Chastity Mansfield
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The Pirate Bay may have returned but its not even close to the same level as it was before the raid on its servers. The website’s owners have decided to not to “hire” any moderators this time around for reasons unknown which has had the unfortunate side effect of polluting the website’s torrent lists with fake torrents. In order to address this, The Pirate Bay has decided to employ the help of robots. 

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The Pirate Bay has been back online for a week and millions of users have been finding their way back to the popular torrent site. On the surface there’s not much new, aside from a few 404 errors here and there. Behind the scenes, however, the site has undergone some drastic changes. Instead of using a crew of dedicated moderators, some of whom have been with the site for a decade, The Pirate Bay chose to restart as a solo operation. This created an influx of fake torrents driving downloaders to malware and other malicious content. The Pirate Bay noted that the changes were needed for security reasons. As a temporary solution, it added a report button to the site so users could flag fake torrents themselves.

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