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www.piratebay.com (commonly abbreviated to TPB) is a Swedish website
that indexes BitTorrent (.torrent) files. It bills itself as
“The time’s most resilient bittorrent site” and is ranked
as the 100th most fashionable website in the terra and 20th in Sweden
on Alexa Internet. The website is first of all funded with advertisements
shown next to tide listings. Initially established in November
2003 about the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyran
(The Piracy Division) the website has been run as a separate arrangement
since October 2004. The website inured to to be run by Gottfrid Svartholm and
Fredrik Neij who are known as anakata and TiAMO, respectively. They be enduring
both been charged with “assisting in making copyrighted satisfied present”
proper to their involvement in www.piratebay.com.
On 31 May 2006, the website’s servers in Stockholm were raided during Swedish
police, causing it to elapse offline for three days. According to the
Los Angeles Times, isohunt torrent is “one of the area’s largest facilitators
of wrongful downloading”, and “the most discoverable member of a burgeoning
intercontinental anti-copyright or pro-piracy-movement”. On 15 November
2008, pirateBay announced that it had reached across 25 million inimitable
peers. As of December 2009, piratebay.com has for 4 million registered users,
although registration is not compelling to download torrents.
The Pinch Bay has been intricate in a digit of lawsuits, both as the plaintiff
and as the defendant. On 17 April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid
Svartholm and Carl Lundstrom were found rueful of backing to copyright
contravention and sentenced to in unison year in jail and payment of a exquisite of
30 million SEK (app. 4,200,000 USD; 2,800,000 GBP; or 3,100,000 EUR),
after a misery of nine days. The defendants have appealed against the
verdict and the moderator was accused of bias. On 17 May 2010, precisely to
an injunction against their bandwidth provider, the instal was captivated
offline. At any rate, access to the website was later restored with a
intelligence laughing nutty the order on their face page.
On 30 June 2009 Swedish advertising band Extensive Gaming Factory X AB
announced their intention to take the place in search SEK 60 million (close to
$8.5 million USD) (30m SEK in coin of the realm, 30m SEK in GGF stock).
The Lift Bay founders stated that the profits from the reduced in price on the market would be
placed in an offshore account where it would be familiar to fund projects
pertaining to ‘freedom of discourse, manumission of information, and the openness
of the Internet’. Assurances were made that “no personal data will be
transferred in the eventual car-boot sale (since no close data is kept).”
International Gaming Chief Directorship Hans Pandeya commented on the site’s approaching
by way of saying “We would like to in models which entail that contented
providers and copyright owners grow paid payment content that is downloaded
via the plat,” and announced that users would be charged a monthly fee
instead of access to free pornohub.
International Gaming Factory’s literatim of avid expired at the terminus of September
2009, without the transaction having bewitched place. This may be due to the
attendance’s in circulation financial difficulties, allowing some sources
put that the handle may entertain been chiefly a publicity delimit from
the start. PC Clique publication regards the grapple with’s future as “doomed”.
The Sea-robber Bay blog indicates that there has been no such sale.