Exactly a year ago The Pirate Bay team surprised friends and foes when it announced that the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker was shutting down for good.
The sites torrent index would remain online, but millions of users had to find alternative trackers or rely on trackerless technologies to share their torrents from then on. In addition, The Pirate Bay suggested a move away from .torrent files entirely in the future.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-one-year-after-the-tracker-shut-down-101117/
