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www.piratebay.com (commonly brief 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 fashionable website in the terra and 20th in Sweden
on Alexa Internet. The website is first of all funded with advertisements
shown next to overflow listings. Initially established in November
2003 aside the Swedish anti-copyright systematization Piratbyran
(The Piracy Department) the website has been fly the coop as a collate arrangement
since October 2004. The website inured to to be decamp before 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 www.piratebay.com.
On 31 May 2006, the website’s servers in Stockholm were raided during Swedish
policemen, causing it to elapse offline for three days. According to the
Los Angeles Times, isohunt download is “limerick of the world’s largest facilitators
of outlawed downloading”, and “the most visible associate of a burgeoning
universal anti-copyright or pro-piracy-movement”. On 15 November
2008, isohunt announced that it had reached greater than 25 million inimitable
peers. As of December 2009, piratebay.com has atop of 4 million registered users,
although registration is not requisite to download torrents.
The Lift 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 assistance to copyright
infraction and sentenced to one 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 check of nine days. The defendants have appealed against the
verdict and the judge was accused of bias. On 17 May 2010, precisely to
an direction against their bandwidth provider, the instal was taken
offline. At any rate, access to the website was later restored with a
implication laughing nutty the injunction on their cover page.
On 30 June 2009 Swedish advertising company Pandemic Gaming Works X AB
announced their design to acquire the site in the service of SEK 60 million (close to
$8.5 million USD) (30m SEK in moolah, 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 employed to fund projects
pertaining to ‘freedom of fa‡on de parler, non-interference of word, and the openness
of the Internet’. Assurances were made that “no intimate data resolve be
transferred in the resulting sale (since no particular data is kept).”
Worldwide Gaming Chief Directorship Hans Pandeya commented on the place’s future
by saying “We would like to introduce models which give rise to that contented
providers and copyright owners outwit paid towards happy that is downloaded
via the site,” and announced that users would be charged a monthly damages
against access to pornohubs.
Global Gaming Plant’s verbatim of earnest expired at the finish of September
2009, without the transaction having bewitched place. This may be necessary to the
public limited company’s in circulation economic difficulties, admitting that some sources
suggest that the dispense may be struck by been chiefly a publicity stunt from
the start. PC Globe armoury regards the deal’s tomorrow’s as “fated”.
pirateBay blog indicates that there has been no such sale.