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www.piratebay.com (commonly revealing to TPB) is a Swedish website
that indexes BitTorrent (.torrent) files. It bills itself as
“The superb’s most resilient bittorrent site” and is ranked
as the 100th most popular website in the world and 20th in Sweden
near Alexa Internet. The website is first of all funded with advertisements
shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in November
2003 aside the Swedish anti-copyright design Piratbyran
(The Piracy Agency) the website has been run as a separate organization
since October 2004. The website inured to 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 present”
scheduled to their involvement in isohunt.
On 31 May 2006, the website’s servers in Stockholm were raided nigh Swedish
policemen, causing it to evaporate pass offline for three days. According to the
Los Angeles Times, isohunt torrents is “limerick of the humankind’s largest facilitators
of interdicted downloading”, and “the most discoverable fellow of a burgeoning
intercontinental anti-copyright or pro-piracy-movement”. On 15 November
2008, pirateBay announced that it had reached over 25 million unique
peers. As of December 2009, thepiratebay.com has over 4 million registered users,
although registration is not compelling to download torrents.
The Pirate Bay has been confused in a number 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 guilty of reinforcement to copyright
contravention and sentenced to one year in detention 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 trial of nine days. The defendants partake of appealed against the
verdict and the moderator was accused of bias. On 17 May 2010, precisely to
an restriction against their bandwidth provider, the instal was bewitched
offline. In any event, access to the website was later restored with a
message laughing unsatisfactory the order on their cover page.
On 30 June 2009 Swedish advertising gathering Far-reaching Gaming Factory X AB
announced their ambition to acquire the site in search SEK 60 million (roughly
$8.5 million USD) (30m SEK in bread, 30m SEK in GGF stock).
pirateBay founders stated that the profits from the purchase would be
placed in an offshore account where it would be familiar to pelf projects
pertaining to ‘deregulation of talk, freedom of dope, and the openness
of the Internet’. Assurances were made that “no intimate data wish be
transferred in the eventual car-boot sale (since no personal figures is kept).”
Worldwide Gaming Chief Executive Hans Pandeya commented on the position’s future
beside saying “We would like to present models which necessitate that content
providers and copyright owners learn paid quest of purport that is downloaded
via the area,” and announced that users would be charged a monthly charge
recompense access to www.pornohub.
International Gaming Plant’s letter of intent expired at the terminus of September
2009, without the transaction having bewitched place. This may be due to the
crowd’s current monetary difficulties, allowing some sources
introduce that the dispense may have been in great part a publicity retard from
the start. PC Everybody journal regards the allot’s subsequent as “info”.
The Plagiarize Bay blog indicates that there has been no such sale.