The same happened in the case of the popular torrent search engine Strike which has just gone open source.
Now, torrent lovers and film fans can build their own custom torrent search engine based on Strike code.
Strike shut down permanently following a lawsuit from the RIAA.
However, Strike developer Andrew Sampson has now released the search engines source code to the public.
Strike was engulfed in a tortuous legal battle with RIAA which Sampson reportedly settled for amassive $3 million.
Since the legal disputes started, Strike has been offline for weeks.
In addition, many external services called on the sites defunct API.
Anyone with coding knowledge can now set up a custom torrent search engine, replicating the Strike code.
The only thing thats missing are the actual torrent scrapers.
After consulting his lawyers, Sampson decided not to make those public.
Staying away from torrents after the Strike debacle, Sampson is nowworking ona new project called Ulterius.
Im 20 years old, so Im just getting started, he concludes.
source: www.techworm.net
