The Pirate Bay crew had already essentially been disbanded, the site dissected, and its remnants sold to a somewhat dubious company that simply wants to turn the site’s visitors into little P2P cash cows.

So an announcement today over at the official Pirate Bay blog that they’re officially shutting down the site’s tracker probably surprises nobody. According to the site, they’re not shutting the site down however – they’ll still annoy the entertainment industry by going trackerless and using the Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for file distribution:

The development of DHT has reached a stage where a tracker is no longer needed to use a torrent. DHT (combined with PEX) is highly effective in finding peers without the need for a centralized service….

Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date.

According to the site, with the use of a more decentralized system of handling tracking (DHT+PEX) and distributions of torrent files (Magnet Links), downtime and outages should be less of a problem. According to a follow up report at Torrent Freak, the site owners are apparently trying to convince other BitTorrent portals to ditch torrents entirely and decentralize, perpetuating the entertainment industry’s game of whack a mole. Sweden’s The Legal has more on how this impacts the site founders’ court case.

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Let’s face it. There’s denim… and there’s good denim.

Denim Demon was started by two Swedish brothers, Anton and Oskar Olsson, and has been around since 1999. And to be honest, they probably has the most unusual way to get that unique, worn-in look people truly want in denim.

This project (Project Ware Outs) is all about taking a step forward in washes – we have sent our forthcoming collection on a tour to the Lappish part of Sweden. The purpose and goal is to obtain authentic wear outs, by authentic people. We gave seven pair of jeans to seven different Samis. The aim is to give the denim pants it’s own history and to create an authentic wear out. The Samis will wear the pants for six months without washing them, which will result in new denim washes for the forthcoming collection.

That’s right. They give their pants to Swedish farmers who in turn wear the jeans, to get that worn out look for you. Unique to say the least.

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