The Pirate Bay abandons torrents and chooses magnet links

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Enough torrent for The Pirate Bay: the decision has been made and officially announced by those who manage the P2P sharing platform of digital material.
Within about a month the system will change, based on a different type of file that works quite differently from torrents.
I magnet links – or magnetic links so to speak – will therefore be the new carriers of downloadable material.
In practice, magnet links do not point to the URL address of content but refer to metadata.
Thus the user will no longer be directed to an address but will refer to a hashtag that indicates the “spot” in the distributed network (DHT) where what he is interested in is located, and from there the download procedure can start.
For users not much will change – although considering that start times for the download will probably be longer – for The Pirate Bay however it will be an important transformation: by no longer providing direct links, there will be many advantages.
First of all there will be a great reduction in bandwidth consumption, since incoming traffic from external links pointing to addresses hosted on The Pirate Bay will also be “turned off.”
Another advantage for the platform will be the reduced possibility of being blocked since a magnet link is not as easily traceable and blockable as a .torrent file.
This means that The Pirate Bay, by no longer providing direct links, will almost turn into just a collection of sources, a signaling service and no longer sharing, somewhat like – to provide a simplistic comparison – what a search engine does, which “shows a path” but is certainly not the path itself.
It is understood that the user must always be well aware that, even if the sharing and download methods change, downloading copyright protected material remains a crime under current law.