The Pirate Bay is dead. And MiniNova has gone legal. Things are changing in the world of public BitTorrent trackers-- the millions of people who populated the large peer-to-peer file-sharing programs a few years ago is history.

In this excellent article on bit torrent sites at Gizmodo Adam Frucci explores the network of meticulously-built private BitTorrent sites. These have arisen in response to it getter harder to pirate media now than it was a few years ago, thanks to the efforts of copyright holders. Instead of millions in the public BitTorrent trackers we have a hundred thousand or so in the private BitTorrent sites.