The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a Swedish file-sharing website founded in 2003 that hosts magnet links and that bills itself as "The world's most resilient BitTorrent site". The Pirate Bay is currently ranked as the 74th most visited website in the world and 17th in Sweden, according to Alexa Internet. The Pirate Bay has over five million registered users and as of May 2012 hosts over four million torrents.[5] 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". The site hosts a variety of content including games, television shows, music and pornography.
The Pirate Bay was established in November 2001 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau); it 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 been accused of "assisting in making copyrighted content available" by the Motion Picture Association of America. On 31 May 2006, the website's servers in Stockholm were raided and taken away by Swedish police, leading to three days of downtime. The Pirate Bay has been involved in a number of lawsuits, both as plaintiff and as defendant.
On 17 April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in prison and payment of a fine of 30 million SEK, after a trial of nine days. On 26 November 2010, a Swedish appeals court upheld the verdict, decreasing the original prison terms but increasing the fine to 46 million SEK. On 17 May 2010, due to an injunction against their bandwidth provider, the site was taken offline. Access to the website was later restored with a message making fun of the injunction on their front page. On 23 June 2010, the group Piratbyrån disbanded due to the death of Ibi Kopimi Botani, a prominent member and co-founder of the group.
The Pirate Bay was hosted for several years by PRQ, a Sweden-based company, owned by creators of TPB Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij. On 23 January 2012, The Pirate Bay added the new category Physibles. In May 2012, as part of Google's newly inaugurated "Transparency Report", the company reported over 6,000 formal requests to remove Pirate Bay links from the Google Search index; those requests covered over 80,500 URLs, with the five copyright holders having the most requests consisting of: Froytal Services LLC, Bang Bros, Takedown Piracy LLC, Amateur Teen Kingdom, and IFPI. On 3 September 2012, Cambodian police arrested a co-founder of The Pirate Bay, 27 year old fugitive Gottfrid Svartholm Warg.
"The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site"
Launched 15 September 2003
Created by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde
https://www.thepiratebay.se/
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