OpenBitTorrent

OpenBitTorrent (OBT ) is a powered from Sweden open, freely usable BitTorrent tracker. As a non commercial project it is powered by donations.

After the shutdown of the previously largest tracker The Pirate Bay in November 2009, a majority of the previously served on the Pirate Bay tracker Complex Torrent oversupply of OBT is now back and is searchable and accessible by external Torrent hosting and indexing sites. This OBT occurs to a significant extent the successor to the legendary Pirate Bay. OBT has itself led to a series of copycat projects.

OBT host any torrent ( metadata ) files and also does not provide indexing services. This contributed to the fact that a first action on the part of the film industry was initially survived consequences. Furthermore, OBT offers, although it is used in Sweden, a takedown procedure in accordance with the DMCA to.

OBT was launched in February 2009 to August hosted on servers DCP Networks ( employer of the Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij ) who have experience with the operation of large BitTorrent trackers, as they have also hosted the Pirate Bay tracker. Therefore, the OBT tracker also had an address in the same IP range and was regarded by many as a Pirate Bay project follow the Pirate Bay folks. OBT is now hosted on our own servers at the company Port Lane. In November, the film industry was trying to achieve through a lawsuit against the Hoster Port Lane at the Stockholm District Court a court order to shut down the tracker. The complaint was rejected. For the summer of 2010 a series of negotiations is expected.