The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent is "Revolution OS"

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After nearly 9 years of seeding The Pirate Bay’s oldest working torrent is still very much alive. Interestingly, the torrent is not a Hollywood classic nor is it an evergreen music album. The honor goes to a pirated copy of “Revolution OS”, a documentary covering the history of Linux, GNU and the free software movement.

Later this year The Pirate Bay will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Quite an achievement for a site that has been dragged into lawsuits for the better half of its existence.

Looking ahead we wanted to discover the oldest torrent to have survived all of these troubles.

After digging around for a while we found that the honor goes to a pirated copy of the documentary “Revolution OS.” The torrent in question was uploaded March 31, 2004.

At the time there were only a few hundred torrent files stored on The Pirate Bay, compared to more than 2 million today. Over the years just 15 people left a comment on the torrent and at the time of writing it has 27 seeders.

There is some irony in the fact that a “pirated” copy of a movie about Linux, GNU and the free software movement is the longest seeded torrent. Richard Stallman, one of the key figures in the documentary, will be proud.

Revolution OS director J.T.S. Moore has mixed feelings about the achievement.

“It’s definitely a problem, but I guess there’s some satisfaction in knowing that REVOLUTION OS still has appeal for some people twelve years later,” Moore told TorrentFreak.

Revolution OS

But is Revolution OS also the oldest torrent still alive overall?

No, that honor goes to another non-mainstream product. The torrent file that has been around for the longest time according to our knowledge is The Matrix ASCII.

We already crowned this one the oldest torrent back in 2005, and as of today it is still active with a few downloaders and seeders. The torrent file in question was created in December 2003 when The Pirate Bay was only a few months old and when Facebook and YouTube didn’t yet exist. Thus far, this torrent has survived a mind-boggling 3,333 days.

Since we’re talking about records we should also mention the largest and smallest torrents on The Pirate Bay. The largest active torrent is an archive of the late Geocities.com, that was shut down by Yahoo in 2010. The 641.32 GB torrent is currently battling for its survival with just one seeder.

The smallest torrent, just over 3 kb, points to an Adobe Photoshop “crack”. In this case the torrent file itself takes up more disk space than the download itself. With more than 1,000 seeders this one is expected to be around for a while.

Next year the Revolution OS torrent is set to turn 10 years old, and we have a feeling that it will still be around to celebrate its birthday.

Revolution OS's torrent.

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[xpmule]

cool thanks for relaying the story.

Yahoo blows and i have spent my entire life avoiding anything to do with them.. even back in the old days.

all kinds of friends and family douchebags would use crap from them and other places and i was preaching GOOGLE !

and it took forever to get everyone turned around and on google.. and then i could say i told you so lol

And ya i know its not a good comparison Google was just a university project with an html page with 1 image and a few lines of html lol

My point is people in general are very slow at catching on to what sucks and what don't.. Killing off Geocoties ? Dumbass's :(

I wonder if that Revolution movie is any good i don't think i ever seen it.. then again i still havn't gotten around to watching TBP / AFK

Jeez i remember when torrents were invented and i was using ed2k and thought wow its fast but is that really gonna catch on ?

having to have sites setup to host torrent files seemed kinda sketchy to me.. i guess it caught on lol

How many people use TPB with no scripting ?

I'm using two scripts for greasemonkey (ad's/vpn link hider) + adblock plus + specific elements in the element hider add-on (looks clean and goods)

need a suit of armor to go to places these days :(

anyway is that movie worth watching ?