The Pirate Bay is moving to magnet links today, no longer hosting torrent files for downloads with more than ten peers.

The world’s most popular file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, is set to drop the files that have helped it become the most infamous Bittorrent hosting portal, removing support for the ageing ...

Filesharing titan the Pirate Bay has promised to remove all .torrent files from its site. But it's not to placate rights-holders—it's going to replace them with "magnet links" instead. Back in ...

Also, since the magnet links are just a hash, it’s on every single torrent detail page – so noone knows that you actually downloaded a file or not.

The PIrate Bay has made magnet links the default method of grabbing torrents, with plans to remove the links to torrent files this time next month.