The Pirate Bay blamed the police raid on the Motion Picture Association of America, which acknowledged to Wired that it had "made criminal complaints" to Swedish authorities. Protests broke out on the Swedish streets.
The site went down for three days - some users initially thought it was an April Fool's joke - and temporarily moved its servers to the Netherlands. On May 31, 2006, police raided The Pirate Bay's office in Stockholm and confiscated the site's servers. It became a non-profit organization in 2006 - the same year that brought The Pirate Bay a boatload of legal woes. By October 2004, a handful of individuals were running the site independently. Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån started The Pirate Bay in late 2003, taking advantage of the country's lax copyright laws. The site has successfully survived a number of assassination attempts in its nine-year existence. The Pirate Bay simply operates a tracking network, so none of the copyright-protected files users commonly swap ever sit on the site's own servers. Trade Representative highlighted The Pirate Bay on its list of "markets notorious for privacy." Senator Orrin Hatch, who co-chairs the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, once denounced it on the Senate floor, and in December, the Office of the U.S. Recent episodes of the TV shows "Vampire Diaries," "Big Bang Theory" and "The Mentalist" were among the day's most popular downloads, along with the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" and the just-released movie "War Horse."Ġ:00 / 4:34 BitTorrent: 100 mil users and pirates On Friday afternoon, one day after Megaupload's death, more than 36 million computers were connected to The Pirate Bay's network. Downloading files requires installing and learning to use torrent software, and the site's ad-choked pages aren't easy to understand at a glance.īut the system is extremely resilient - and it's a haven for digital piracy.
The Pirate Bay can be confusing to those who aren't fluent geeks. The tool has many legitimate uses, but it's also heavily used to illegally trade movies and other copyrighted content. Run by an organization registered in the Seychelles, The Pirate Bay bills itself as the "world's largest tracker of BitTorrent files."īitTorrent is a free software program that lets its 150 million users swap and download large media files.
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