The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB), a Swedish website that hosts magnet links, bills itself as "The world's most resilient BitTorrent site" (as of 2012, "The galaxy's most resilient..."). The Pirate Bay is currently ranked as the 71st most visited website in the world and 12th in Sweden, according to Alexa Internet, The Pirate Bay has over five million registered users and as of May 2012 and hosts over four million torrents. According to t...
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The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB), a Swedish website that hosts magnet links, bills itself as "The world's most resilient BitTorrent site" (as of 2012, "The galaxy's most resilient..."). The Pirate Bay is currently ranked as the 71st most visited website in the world and 12th in Sweden, according to Alexa Internet, The Pirate Bay has over five million registered users and as of May 2012 and hosts over four million torrents. According to the Los Angeles Times, The Pirate Bay is "one of the world's largest facilitators of illegal downloading" and "the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright or pro-piracy movement".
Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau), The Pirate Bay has been run as a separate organization since October 2004. The Pirate Bay was first run by Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, who are known by their nicknames "anakata" and "TiAMO", respectively. They have both...
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