When The Pirate Bay was taken offline due to the Swedish police raid, many mirror and alternative websites popped up as a result. One of those websites called themselves the Old Pirate Bay and is a website started by the team at isoHunt. It basically offered users a similar feel to The Pirate Bay, except with some slight improvements.That being said with hints that the original Pirate Bay will be making a comeback on the 1st of February, it would be safe to assume that all these websites that popped up in its absence would soon start to see a drop in visitors, but the team at isoHunt are taking steps to prevent that. They have recently announced that they will be giving $100,000 away to their most active users.
The payment will be made in bitcoin and will be paid out over the course of the next six months. The money will be used to help fund development, moderation, and content uploading. The latter is interesting as previously users were not able to upload content onto its website, but rather its torrent listings were based on public torrent indexes.
Also odd is the timing of the launch as the giveaway contest is expected to kick off on the 1st of February, which is also when the original Pirate Bay is expected to make its triumphant return. According to the team at isoHunt in an email to VentureBeat, “In order to boost up that process we are announcing unprecedented move! The idea behind this message is to empower community to create OldPirateBay.org as they see it. And we’re ready to reward the most active participants along the way.”
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