[Joona]

I'm pretty sure you can actually download the magnet links as an archive, which shouldn't be too big either.

[dfc]

You can download "an archive" that has all of the magnet links at the time of the creation of the archive. This is not helpful for finding new content. Most importantly downloading a 9 gig archive of magnet links is not a workable system for average users; Bittorrent is only as good as the number of peers in the swarm.

[runn1ng]

I actually made a magnet link archive a year and something back ( http://www.karelbilek.com/piratebay/ ), mostly as an experiment

Only the magnets and names - 76 MB; all the magnets + descriptions + comments - 631 MB

It's not that workable for any particular usage (other then statistics I guess) and I never upgraded it since then. There were some attempts by other people to regularly archive TPB (and semi-mirror sites like torrentz.eu and bitsnoop were "mirroring it" by reposting its torrents until the very end) but I am not sure if somebody actually dumped it online regularly in an archive

[elros]

I don't think it's intended as the main mean of consumption, just as yet another measure to make sure it's hard to destroy the information.

[Joona]

True, and I would love to see a solution to it, but downloading an archive makes it at least a little bit less centralized.

[draugadrotten]

Could the magnet links be distributed by adding them to dummy transactions using the BitCoin "coinbase" blockchain method?

[Cakez0r]

Curious about this too.

[toomuchtodo]

Could the magnet links be served as a torrent?

[Joona]

(If I understand your question correctly,) sure, but it would instantly be outdated, because you can't include the torrent you just created.

[forgotpasswd3x]

Possible a magnet to the magnet bundle?

[aaren]

yes, but because the magnet link is a hash of the content it is only ever a snapshot of the magnet bundle.

[toomuchtodo]

So version the magnet link (similar to git) and always serve the latest magnet link via a DNS TXT record.

[aaren]

where does the version control repo live?

[toomuchtodo]

Excellent point. I'll continue to think on this!