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Last month we reported that The Pirate Bay had doubled the number of torrents and peers on their tracker in 2007. Brokep, one of the co-founders of the popular BitTorrent tracker told us at the time that he expected the tracker to hit 10 million peers during the next big holiday.

It turns out that they didn’t even need a holiday, because the number of peers jumped from 8 million to 10 million in little over a month. The Bay now now tracks over a million torrents and 10 million peers at any given point in time.

Brokep told TorrentFreak that the statistics reported on the frontpage may fluctuate a bit because one of the trackers is too loaded to report its share. However, he assured us that The Pirate Bay indeed tracks over 10 million peers, and more than a million torrents.

In order to keep up with the continuous growth, The Pirate Bay has been upgrading hardware over the past few months. In addition, they moved from Anakata’s Hypercube to the open source Opentracker software, to improve the performance of their trackers.

These certainly are exciting times for The Pirate Bay crew. Next week, prosecutor Håkan Roswall will press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay, based on the 4000 pages of evidence the authorities have collected. We will of course be watching this closely. The Pirate Bay crew are convinced that they haven’t done anything wrong, and said that - no matter what the outcome will be - the site will stay up.