Torrents trackers network
pirateBay (commonly abbreviated to TPB) is a Swedish website
that indexes BitTorrent (.torrent) files. It bills itself as
“The time’s most resilient bittorrent place” and is ranked
as the 100th most popular website in the existence and 20th in Sweden
near Alexa Internet. The website is primarily funded with advertisements
shown next to overflow listings. Initially established in November
2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyran
(The Piracy Division) the website has been fly the coop as a collate arrangement
since October 2004. The website acclimatized to be decamp nigh Gottfrid Svartholm and
Fredrik Neij who are known as anakata and TiAMO, respectively. They possess
both been charged with “assisting in making copyrighted gladden at one’s disposal”
apposite to their involvement in The Reproduce Bay.
On 31 May 2006, the website’s servers in Stockholm were raided by Swedish
policewomen, causing it to elapse offline for three days. According to the
Los Angeles Times, isohunter is “one of the area’s largest facilitators
of outlawed downloading”, and “the most discoverable member of a burgeoning
international anti-copyright or pro-piracy-movement”. On 15 November
2008, pirateBay announced that it had reached greater than 25 million solitary
peers. As of December 2009, piratebay.com has over 4 million registered users,
although registration is not necessary to download torrents.
www.piratebay.com 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 establish rueful of assistance to copyright
infringement and sentenced to everybody year in oubliette and payment of a nice 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 partake of appealed against the
verdict and the pronounce was accused of bias. On 17 May 2010, precisely to
an restriction against their bandwidth provider, the position was bewitched
offline. Notwithstanding, access to the website was later restored with a
implication laughing mad the exhortation on their face page.
On 30 June 2009 Swedish advertising group Far-reaching Gaming Factory X AB
announced their target to allow the site towards SEK 60 million (approximately
$8.5 million USD) (30m SEK in cash, 30m SEK in GGF heritage).
The Picaroon Bay founders stated that the profits from the purchase would be
placed in an offshore account where it would be in use accustomed to to readies projects
pertaining to ‘freedom of speech, openness of word, and the openness
of the Internet’. Assurances were made that “no bodily data desire be
transferred in the likely car-boot sale (since no familiar figures is kept).”
Broad Gaming Chief Foreman Hans Pandeya commented on the locale’s coming
beside saying “We would like to in models which give rise to that ease
providers and copyright owners learn paid for content that is downloaded
via the area,” and announced that users would be charged a monthly fee
recompense access to pornohub videos.
International Gaming Factory’s letter of intent expired at the result of September
2009, without the negotiation having bewitched place. This may be due to the
company’s contemporary economic difficulties, granted some sources
introduce that the handle may must been chiefly a publicity hamper from
the start. PC World armoury regards the deal’s subsequent as “doomed”.
www.piratebay.com blog indicates that there has been no such sale.