The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde believes that the piracy scene needs more innovation if it aims to survive. This is his reaction on the current shutdown of the popular torrent site KickAssTorrents.

Sunde suggests that more decentralization is necessary to provide more torrent sites to the users as the current torrent ecosystem relies too heavily on a few large sites. He believes that the shutdown of KAT proves how vulnerable the ecosystem is. The Pirate Bay co-founder discussed that torrent users rely on a very small group of torrent sites that, as he believes, are all major targets for law enforcement.

The decentralization of torrent sites could be made possible by the new technologies such as Zeronet and IPFS. According to Sunde, IPFS is a real good site that uses new technology which can work as great with less centralization. He added that The Pirate Bay and KickAssTorrents were not able to integrate new technologies which may be the reason why they are now faced with problems, International Business Times reported.

Sunde also suggests that a user database is necessary for the new technologies to catch on. He points out that the big torrent sites do not have an up to date user database experience and do not use new technologies at all. The Pirate Bay co-founder reiterates that this has been going on for around 15 years and there is no innovation at all.

Today, millions of people just rely on The Pirate Bay and KickAssTorrents to be around, but that makes the ecosystem vulnerable without any incentive to innovate, Sunde explained. This is why he wanted to terminate The Pirate Bay on its 10th anniversary to work on something better. Sunde asks that they need new people, new voices, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene, Torrent Freak reported.

Pirate Bay co-founder further discussed that he has been wanting for years for The Pirate Bay to rest and now that KickAssTorrents being shut down, he hopes it will bring inspiration to people to do something new and innovative. He concluded by stating that it is not really hard to run a torrent site or set up one.