An infamous peer-to-peer file sharing website has announced its intentions to replace its tracker technology to a newer form of network.

The Pirate Bay, which refers to itself as "the world's most resilient bittorrent site", revealed in a blog this week that its service was changing not because of the raft of court orders levelled against it, but the need to update its website to a more technologically-advanced model.

It said: "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 centralised service."

It also means that the organisation will be able to stand up to the threats of outages and downtime, it concluded.

This week, Sandryds Handel, a Swedish online retailer that had trademarked a near copy of the Pirate Bay's famous ship logo, agreed to withdraw registration of the logo after co-founder of the website Peter Sunde complained to the Patent and Registration Office of Sweden.

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