The Pirate Bay launches pirate tracker via GOOGLE!?!

Gets some help from Google maps

In the run up to the major court case against The Pirate Bay in Sweden, the website has launched a new "service" called TPB Tracker Geo Statistics. It relies on Google Maps to show which country has the most connections towards the various torrent files on The Pirate Bay.

You might be surprised when you start looking at the statistics as to where most of the downloads happen. The site offer continually updated stats as well as 24h stats. At the time of writing, somewhat unsurprising, China was in the lead over the past 24h with just over 22 percent of all Pirate Bay users, followed by the US of A with 11 percent. At third place is the UK with nearly 5.6 percent and then Spain with 5.4 percent. France and Italy are also high up on the stats with almost 4.4 percent and 3.5 percent respectively.

To make things a bit fun, whoever did the Google Maps script added various symbols and colours depending on how many users are connected from each country. China and the USA has a nuclear symbol, with the other countries we listed having a fire in its place. Most countries just have a small Google Maps arrow in various colours pointing at them, with blue and green colours for low usage and yellow, orange and red for high usage. Those places that barely have anyone connected to The Pirate Bay gets a snow flake.

The stats are based on unique users connected per minute and you can also see how many users are connected from each country. It's interesting to see how the stats change depending on the time of the day as well, as during certain hours of the day, the usage goes down in various regions, with others taking over. The sad news, for the MPAA and friends at least, is that it's not possible to track individual users via this service.

Check it out

China got nuclear toxic tag lol

http://geo.keff.org/

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• thePirateBay
• pirate
• tracker
• GOOGLEmaps
• China

[DekraDaFurry]

shit I just saw me at that map!

[Tru3m0sl3m]

First of all piratebay is a real bad place to lurk in.. Because of the feds and now with this geo tracker is scary! lolz

[diskchrisco]

lol but they're not stealing, they're simply shairng :D

[jedihunter176]

AaRGH MATEY, THE SCURVY SEA DOGS AT MPAA ARE GOING TO DAVY JONES' LOCKER!

[Programming12]

gOOGLE

[Programming12]

@Tru3m0sl3m Police cant do shit to me since I'm in the S.A.S :/

[MyNinoslav]

@Tru3m0sl3m i am in serbia here it is legal to sell do download anything you want. everything is legal (except drugs)

[SlippyMcSlipknot]

what to search on google maps? :o

[cabrian1]

*Wipes sweat off forehead*

[ekmindustries]

hw do u see dat?

[N00bizme]

Simple fix.Download a proffesional IP scrambler from piratebay.

[alex054739]

I bet the jurdge that sent the owners to prison/jail, the jurdge did download some music, movies, games, tv shows from there too.

[alex054739]

@Tru3m0sl3m They cant prove anything. Caz you can say "you used photoshop"

Then the case is closed ;')

[MoschinoMojica]

@KKKSuperFan

but they can see what you download right?

by looking at your IP Address