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class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Purchases </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Purchases-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cryptocurrency" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cryptocurrency"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Cryptocurrency </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cryptocurrency-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Incidents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Incidents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Incidents </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Incidents-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Incidents subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Incidents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-May_2006_raid" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#May_2006_raid"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 May 2006 raid </div> </a> <ul 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Censorship_and_controversies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Censorship and controversies </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Censorship_and_controversies-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Censorship and controversies subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Censorship_and_controversies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Anti-copyright_movement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anti-copyright_movement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Anti-copyright movement </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anti-copyright_movement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Domain_blocking_by_countries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Domain_blocking_by_countries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Domain blocking by countries </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Domain_blocking_by_countries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sweden" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sweden"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2.1 Sweden </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sweden-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Censorship_by_corporations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Censorship_by_corporations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Censorship by corporations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Censorship_by_corporations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Facebook" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Facebook"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3.1 Facebook </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Facebook-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Microsoft" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Microsoft"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3.2 Microsoft </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Microsoft-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Google" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Google"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3.3 Google </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Google-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 In media </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" 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data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87" title="দ্য পাইরেট বে – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="দ্য পাইরেট বে" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87" title="द पायरेट बे – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="द पायरेट बे" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%DB%8C" title="پایرت بی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پایرت بی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%B4%EB%9F%AC%ED%8A%B8%EB%B2%A0%EC%9D%B4" title="파이러트베이 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="파이러트베이" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87_(%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%9F)" title="द पाइरट बे (बेबसाइट) – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="द पाइरट बे (बेबसाइट)" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%87" title="ദി പൈറേറ്റ് ബേ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ദി പൈറേറ്റ് ബേ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="The Pirate Bay" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%A4" title="パイレート・ベイ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">The Pirate Bay</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Pirate_Bay_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Drawing of a 3-masted sailing ship with "Home Taping Is Killing Music" cassette and crossbones" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/The_Pirate_Bay_logo.svg/200px-The_Pirate_Bay_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/The_Pirate_Bay_logo.svg/300px-The_Pirate_Bay_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/The_Pirate_Bay_logo.svg/400px-The_Pirate_Bay_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="543" data-file-height="615" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">The Pirate Bay logo</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Torrent index, <a href="/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme" title="Magnet URI scheme">magnet links</a> provider</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">35 languages available, primarily English and Swedish</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Neij" title="Fredrik Neij">Fredrik Neij</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Sunde" title="Peter Sunde">Peter Sunde</a></li> <li><a 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a freely searchable online index of <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">movies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video games</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pornographic_film" title="Pornographic film">pornography</a> and <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a>. Founded in 2003 by Swedish <a href="/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tank</a> <a href="/wiki/Piratbyr%C3%A5n" title="Piratbyrån">Piratbyrån</a>, The Pirate Bay facilitates the connection among users of the <a href="/wiki/Peer-to-peer" title="Peer-to-peer">peer-to-peer</a> <a href="/wiki/BitTorrent" title="BitTorrent">torrent protocol</a>, which are able to contribute to the site through the addition of <a href="/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme" title="Magnet URI scheme">magnet links</a>. The Pirate Bay has consistently ranked as one of the most visited torrent websites in the world.<a href="#cite_note-IO5o3-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-xsWzr-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> Over the years the website has faced several server raids, shutdowns and domain seizures, switching to a series of new web addresses to continue operating.<a href="#cite_note-theguardian_June_2,_2015-4">[4]</a> In multiple countries, <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">Internet service providers</a> (ISPs) have been ordered to block access to it. Subsequently, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention#Mirrors,_caches,_and_copies" title="Internet censorship circumvention">proxy websites</a> have emerged to circumvent the blocks.<a href="#cite_note-mCfJS-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-guardian_raid-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-GBWZF-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-f9Od2-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-RU1Ss-9">[9]</a> In April 2009, the website's founders <a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Neij" title="Fredrik Neij">Fredrik Neij</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sunde" title="Peter Sunde">Peter Sunde</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gottfrid_Svartholm" title="Gottfrid Svartholm">Gottfrid Svartholm</a> were found guilty in the <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial" title="The Pirate Bay trial">Pirate Bay trial</a> in Sweden for assisting in <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a> and were sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine.<a href="#cite_note-appealdatepcw-10">[10]</a> They were all released by 2015 after serving shortened sentences.<a href="#cite_note-theguardian_June_2,_2015-4">[4]</a> The Pirate Bay has sparked controversies and discussion about <a href="/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing" title="Legal aspects of file sharing">legal aspects of file sharing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Civil_liberties" title="Civil liberties">civil liberties</a> and has become a platform for political initiatives against established <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property">intellectual property</a> laws as well as a central figure in an <a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_copyright" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition to copyright">anti-copyright</a> movement.<a href="#cite_note-Jessica_L._Beyer.p.65-11">[11]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> The Pirate Bay was established on 15 September 2003<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-pX7ry-13">[13]</a> by the Swedish anti-copyright organisation <a href="/wiki/Piratbyr%C3%A5n" title="Piratbyrån">Piratbyrån</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> 'The Piracy Bureau'); it has been run as a separate organisation since October 2004. The Pirate Bay was first run by <a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Neij" title="Fredrik Neij">Fredrik Neij</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gottfrid_Svartholm" title="Gottfrid Svartholm">Gottfrid Svartholm</a> with <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sunde" title="Peter Sunde">Peter Sunde</a> as the spokesperson;<a href="#cite_note-GoneForGood-14">[14]</a> the founders are known by their nicknames "TiAMO", "anakata" and "brokep", respectively. They have both been accused of "assisting in making copyrighted content available" by the <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Association of America">Motion Picture Association of America</a>. On 31 May 2006, the website's servers in <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a> were raided and seized by Swedish police, leading to three days of <a href="/wiki/Downtime" title="Downtime">downtime</a>.<a href="#cite_note-still-15">[15]</a> The Pirate Bay claims to be a non-profit entity based in <a href="/wiki/Seychelles" title="Seychelles">Seychelles</a>;<a href="#cite_note-lqKEa-16">[16]</a> however, this is disputed.<a href="#cite_note-3VJBN-17">[17]</a> The Pirate Bay has been involved in a number of lawsuits, both as <a href="/wiki/Plaintiff" title="Plaintiff">plaintiff</a> and as <a href="/wiki/Defendant" title="Defendant">defendant</a>. On 17 April 2009 the founders and <a href="/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m" title="Carl Lundström">Carl Lundström</a> were found guilty of <a href="/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)" title="Accessory (legal term)">assistance</a> to <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a> and sentenced to one year in prison and payment of a fine of 30 million <a href="/wiki/Swedish_kronor" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish kronor">Swedish kronor</a> (approximately US$4.2 million, £2.8 million <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">sterling</a>, or €3.1 million), after <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial" title="The Pirate Bay trial">a trial</a> of nine days. The defendants appealed the verdict and accused the judge of giving in to political pressure.<a href="#cite_note-nXaex-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-r4MTJ-19">[19]</a> On 26 November 2010, a Swedish appeals court upheld the verdict, decreasing the original prison terms but increasing the fine to 46 million kronor.<a href="#cite_note-AppealVerdict-20">[20]</a> On 17 May 2010, because of an <a href="/wiki/Injunction" title="Injunction">injunction</a> against their <a href="/wiki/Bandwidth_(computing)" title="Bandwidth (computing)">bandwidth</a> provider, the site was taken offline.<a href="#cite_note-Injunction-21">[21]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Ibi_Kopimi_Botani" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibi Kopimi Botani">Ibi Kopimi Botani</a>, a prominent member and co-founder of the group.<a href="#cite_note-GoneForGood-14">[14]</a> The Pirate Bay was hosted for several years by <a href="/wiki/PRQ" title="PRQ">PRQ</a>, a Sweden-based company, owned by Neij and Svartholm.<a href="#cite_note-C1ZOw-22">[22]</a> PRQ is said to provide "highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services to its customers".<a href="#cite_note-8HOpN-23">[23]</a> From May 2011, <a href="/wiki/Serious_Tubes_Networks" title="Serious Tubes Networks">Serious Tubes Networks</a> started providing network connectivity to The Pirate Bay.<a href="#cite_note-torrentfreak-comcast-24">[24]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Google_Search" title="Google Search">Google Search</a> index; those requests covered over 80,500 URLs, with the five copyright holders having the most requests consisting of: Froytal Services LLC, <a href="/wiki/Bang_Bros" title="Bang Bros">Bang Bros</a>, Takedown Piracy LLC, Amateur Teen Kingdom, and <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_the_Phonographic_Industry" title="International Federation of the Phonographic Industry">International Federation of the Phonographic Industry</a> (IFPI).<a href="#cite_note-fRpGI-25">[25]</a> On 10 August 2013, The Pirate Bay announced the release of <a href="/wiki/PirateBrowser" title="PirateBrowser">PirateBrowser</a>, a free <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browser</a> used to circumvent internet censorship.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-20130810-26">[26]</a> The site was the most visited torrent directory on the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a> from 2003 until November 2014, when <a href="/wiki/KickassTorrents" title="KickassTorrents">KickassTorrents</a> had more visitors according to <a href="/wiki/Alexa_Internet" title="Alexa Internet">Alexa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-IO5o3-1">[1]</a> On 8 December 2014, Google removed most of the <a href="/wiki/Google_Play" title="Google Play">Google Play</a> apps from its <a href="/wiki/App_store" title="App store">app store</a> that have "The Pirate Bay" in the title.<a href="#cite_note-H63kD-27">[27]</a> On 9 December 2014, The Pirate Bay was raided by the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Police_Authority" title="Swedish Police Authority">Swedish police</a>, who seized servers, computers, and other equipment.<a href="#cite_note-WRD-20141209-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-TF-20141209-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-GZM=20141209-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-TV-20141210-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-TM-20141210-32">[32]</a> Several other torrent related sites including <a href="/wiki/EZTV" title="EZTV">EZTV</a>, Zoink, Torrage and the Istole tracker were also shut down in addition to The Pirate Bay's forum Suprbay.org.<a href="#cite_note-TF-20141209-29">[29]</a> On the second day after the raid EZTV was reported to be showing "signs of life" with uploads to <a href="/wiki/ExtraTorrent" title="ExtraTorrent">ExtraTorrent</a> and KickassTorrents and supporting proxy sites like eztv-proxy.net via the main website's backend IP addresses.<a href="#cite_note-OIXqO-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-MgoqE-34">[34]</a> Several copies of The Pirate Bay went online during the next several days, most notably oldpiratebay.org, created by <a href="/wiki/IsoHunt" title="IsoHunt">isoHunt</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_2014-12-15-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-Guard_2014-12-15-36">[36]</a> On 19 May 2015, the <a href="/wiki/.se" title=".se">.se</a> domain of The Pirate Bay was ordered to be seized following a ruling by a Swedish court.<a href="#cite_note-CioZ4-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-tihB1-38">[38]</a> The site reacted by adding six new domains in its place.<a href="#cite_note-92jo7-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-jeXLY-40">[40]</a> The judgment was appealed on 26 May 2015.<a href="#cite_note-rHQMt-41">[41]</a> On 12 May 2016, the appeal was dismissed and the Court ruled the domains be turned over to the Swedish state.<a href="#cite_note-GA6da-42">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-HHIUU-43">[43]</a> The site returned to using its original .org domain in May 2016.<a href="#cite_note-ibtimes2016-05-23-44">[44]</a> In August 2016, the US government shut down KickassTorrents, which resulted in The Pirate Bay becoming once again the most visited BitTorrent website.<a href="#cite_note-xsWzr-2">[2]</a> As of 2024, The Pirate Bay is still on the top 10 of the most visited torrent sites of the year. <a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Website">Website</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Website">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Pirate_Bay_in_2004.png/200px-Pirate_Bay_in_2004.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Pirate_Bay_in_2004.png/300px-Pirate_Bay_in_2004.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Pirate_Bay_in_2004.png/400px-Pirate_Bay_in_2004.png 2x" data-file-width="956" data-file-height="705" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Thepiratebay.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Thepiratebay.png/200px-Thepiratebay.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Thepiratebay.png/300px-Thepiratebay.png 1.5x, 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These are used to reference resources available for download via peer-to-peer networks which, when opened in a BitTorrent client, begin downloading the desired content. Originally,<a href="#cite_note-VergeMagLinks-46">[46]</a> The Pirate Bay allowed users to download <a href="/wiki/Torrent_file" title="Torrent file">BitTorrent files (torrents)</a>, small files that contain <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> necessary to download the data files from other users. The torrents are organised into categories: "Audio", "Video", "Applications", "Games", "Porn", and "Other".<a href="#cite_note-browse-47">[47]</a> Registration requires an email address and is free; registered users may upload their own torrents and comment on torrents. According to a study of newly uploaded files during 2013 by <a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a>, 44% of uploads were television shows and movies, porn was in second place with 35% of uploads, and audio made up 9% of uploads.<a href="#cite_note-FL6l8-48">[48]</a> Registration for new users was closed in May 2019 following problems with the uploading of malware torrents.<a href="#cite_note-registration-49">[49]</a> Registrations were reopened in June 2023, following the closure of RARBG, which further restricted the online possibilities of new potential uploaders and pushed TPB team to act. <a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> The website features a browse function that enables users to see what is available in broad categories like Audio, Video, and Games, as well as sub-categories like Audio books, High-res Movies, and Comics. Since January 2012, it also features a "Physibles" category for <a href="/wiki/3D_Printing" class="mw-redirect" title="3D Printing">3D-printable</a> objects.<a href="#cite_note-Ffp1V-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-4FWom-52">[52]</a> The contents of these categories can be sorted by file name, the number of seeders or leechers, the date posted, etc. Piratbyrån described The Pirate Bay as a long-running project of <a href="/wiki/Performance_art" title="Performance art">performance art</a>.<a href="#cite_note-wt253-53">[53]</a> Normally, the front page of The Pirate Bay featured a drawing of a <a href="/wiki/Pirate_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirate ship">pirate ship</a> with the logo of the 1980s anti-copyright infringement campaign, "<a href="/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music" title="Home Taping Is Killing Music">Home Taping Is Killing Music</a>", on its sails instead of the <a href="/wiki/Jolly_Roger" title="Jolly Roger">Jolly Roger</a> symbol usually associated with pirate ships.<a href="#cite_note-yScJ6-54">[54]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technical_details">Technical details</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Technical details">edit</a>]</div> Initially, The Pirate Bay's four <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> <a href="/wiki/Server_(computing)" title="Server (computing)">servers</a> ran a custom <a href="/wiki/Web_server" title="Web server">web server</a> called Hypercube. An old version is <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source</a>.<a href="#cite_note-S2nj2-55">[55]</a> On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2 <a href="/wiki/HTTP" title="HTTP">HTTP</a> requests per <a href="/wiki/Millisecond" title="Millisecond">millisecond</a> on each of the four <a href="/wiki/Web_server" title="Web server">web servers</a>,<a href="#cite_note-stay-56">[56]</a> as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the <a href="/wiki/Front_end_processor_(program)" class="mw-redirect" title="Front end processor (program)">front-end</a> of the website. The website now runs <a href="/wiki/Lighttpd" title="Lighttpd">Lighttpd</a> and <a href="/wiki/PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a> on its dynamic front ends, <a href="/wiki/MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a> at the database back end, <a href="/wiki/Sphinx_(search_engine)" title="Sphinx (search engine)">Sphinx</a> on the two search systems, <a href="/wiki/Memcached" title="Memcached">memcached</a> for caching SQL queries and PHP-sessions and <a href="/wiki/Varnish_cache" class="mw-redirect" title="Varnish cache">Varnish</a> in front of Lighttpd for caching static content. As of September 2008<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit">[update]</a>, The Pirate Bay consisted of 31 dedicated servers including nine dynamic web fronts, a database, two search engines, and eight <a href="/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker" title="BitTorrent tracker">BitTorrent trackers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BRw4N-57">[57]</a> On 7 December 2007, The Pirate Bay finished the move from Hypercube to <a href="/wiki/Opentracker" title="Opentracker">Opentracker</a> as its BitTorrent tracking software, also enabling the use of the <a href="/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol" title="User Datagram Protocol">UDP</a> tracker protocol for which Hypercube lacked support.<a href="#cite_note-t14W2-58">[58]</a> This allowed UDP <a href="/wiki/Multicast" title="Multicast">multicast</a> to be used to synchronise the multiple servers with each other much faster than before.<a href="#cite_note-otxI2-59">[59]</a> Opentracker is <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a>.<a href="#cite_note-p3LKn-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-cpGTH-61">[61]</a> In June 2008, The Pirate Bay announced that their servers would support <a href="/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer" class="mw-redirect" title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</a> encryption in response to Sweden's new wiretapping law.<a href="#cite_note-SlyckSSL-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-GuarSSL-63">[63]</a> On 19 January 2009, The Pirate Bay launched <a href="/wiki/IPv6" title="IPv6">IPv6</a> support for their tracker system, using an IPv6-only version of <a href="/wiki/Opentracker" title="Opentracker">Opentracker</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Lviy1-64">[64]</a> On 17 November 2009, The Pirate Bay shut off its tracker service permanently, stating that centralised trackers are no longer needed since <a href="/wiki/Distributed_hash_table" title="Distributed hash table">distributed hash tables</a> (DHT), <a href="/wiki/Peer_exchange" title="Peer exchange">peer exchange</a> (PEX), and <a href="/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme" title="Magnet URI scheme">magnet links</a> allow peers to find each other and content in a decentralised way.<a href="#cite_note-QcJEx-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-cNGqB-66">[66]</a> On 20 February 2012, The Pirate Bay announced in a <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> post that after 29 February the site would no longer offer <a href="/wiki/Torrent_file" title="Torrent file">torrent files</a>, and would instead offer only <a href="/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme" title="Magnet URI scheme">magnet links</a>. The site commented: "Not having torrents will be a bit cheaper for us but it will also make it harder for our common enemies to stop us."<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> The site added that torrents being shared by fewer than ten people will retain their torrent files, to ensure compatibility with older software that may not support magnet links.<a href="#cite_note-E2bM4-68">[68]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Funding">Funding</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Funding">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_financing">Early financing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Early financing">edit</a>]</div> In April 2007, a rumour was confirmed on the Swedish talk show Bert that The Pirate Bay had received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some consternation since Lundström, an heir to the <a href="/wiki/Wasabr%C3%B6d" title="Wasabröd">Wasabröd</a> fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like <a href="/wiki/Sverigedemokraterna" class="mw-redirect" title="Sverigedemokraterna">Sverigedemokraterna</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bevara_Sverige_Svenskt" title="Bevara Sverige Svenskt">Bevara Sverige Svenskt</a> (Keep Sweden Swedish). During the talk show, Piratbyrån spokesman Tobias Andersson acknowledged that "without Lundström's support, Pirate Bay would not have been able to start" and stated that most of the money went towards acquiring servers and bandwidth.<a href="#cite_note-Regrightwing-69">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-KFOT0-70">[70]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Donations">Donations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Donations">edit</a>]</div> From 2004 until 2006, The Pirate Bay had a "Donate" link to a donations page which listed several payment methods, stated that funds supported only the tracker, and offered time-limited benefits to donors such as no advertisements and "VIP" status.<a href="#cite_note-pQZi8-71">[71]</a> After that, the link was removed from the home page,<a href="#cite_note-zWUGU-72">[72]</a> and the donations page only recommended donating "to your local pro-piracy group" for a time,<a href="#cite_note-yvGlV-73">[73]</a> after which it redirected to the site's main page. Billboard claimed that the site in 2009 "appeals for donations to keep its service running".<a href="#cite_note-NPH83-74">[74]</a> In 2006, Petter Nilsson, a candidate on the Swedish political reality show Toppkandidaterna (The Top Candidates), donated 35,000 Swedish kronor (US$4,925.83) to The Pirate Bay, which they used to buy new servers.<a href="#cite_note-x2zYs-75">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-stlz9-76">[76]</a> In 2007, the site ran a fund intended to buy <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand" title="Principality of Sealand">Sealand</a>, a platform with debated <a href="/wiki/Micronation" title="Micronation">micronation</a> status.<a href="#cite_note-iZrf0-77">[77]</a> In 2009, the convicted principals of TPB requested that users stop trying to donate money for their fines, because they refused to pay them.<a href="#cite_note-3PshU-78">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-0BDMQ-79">[79]</a> In 2013, The Pirate Bay published its <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a> address on the site front page for donations,<a href="#cite_note-TWQHX-80">[80]</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Litecoin" title="Litecoin">Litecoin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-pZNCj-81">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Merchandising">Merchandising</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Merchandising">edit</a>]</div> The site linked to an online store selling site-related merchandise, first noted in 2006 in <a href="/wiki/Svenska_Dagbladet" title="Svenska Dagbladet">Svenska Dagbladet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-x27Xf-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-i1FoL-83">[83]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advertising">Advertising</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Advertising">edit</a>]</div> Since 2006, the website has received financing through advertisements on result pages. According to speculations by Svenska Dagbladet, the advertisements generate about 600,000 kronor ($84,000) per month.<a href="#cite_note-cS18c-84">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-xUpY2-85">[85]</a> In an investigation in 2006, the police concluded that The Pirate Bay brings in 1.2 million kronor ($169,000) per year from advertisements.<a href="#cite_note-0MKZo-86">[86]</a> The prosecution estimated in the 2009 trial from emails and screenshots that the advertisements pay over 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) a year,<a href="#cite_note-rORlu-87">[87]</a> but the indictment used the estimate from the police investigation.<a href="#cite_note-eZ0q7-88">[88]</a> The lawyers of the site's administrators counted the 2006 revenue closer to 725,000 kronor ($102,000).<a href="#cite_note-kuprijanko-89">[89]</a> The verdict of the first trial, however, quoted the estimate from the preliminary investigation.<a href="#cite_note-7L6jv-90">[90]</a> As of 2008<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit">[update]</a>, <a href="/wiki/IFPI" class="mw-redirect" title="IFPI">IFPI</a> claims that the website is extremely profitable, and that The Pirate Bay is more engaged in making profit than supporting people's rights.<a href="#cite_note-arsfabricated-91">[91]</a> The website has insisted that these allegations are not true, stating, "It's not free to operate a Web Site on this scale", and, "If we were making lots of money I, Svartholm, wouldn't be working late at the office tonight, I'd be sitting on a beach somewhere, working on my tan."<a href="#cite_note-97X8v-92">[92]</a> In response to claims of annual revenue exceeding $3 million made by the IFPI, Sunde argues that the website's high bandwidth, power, and hardware costs eliminate the potential for profit. The Pirate Bay, he says, may ultimately be operating at a loss.<a href="#cite_note-arsfabricated-91">[91]</a> In the 2009 trial, the defence estimated the site's yearly expenses to be 800,000 kronor ($110,000).<a href="#cite_note-kuprijanko-89">[89]</a> There have been unintentional advertisers. In 2007, an online ad agency placed <a href="/wiki/Wal-Mart" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart">Wal-Mart</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a> DVD ads "along with search results that included downloads of the series".<a href="#cite_note-7dm00-93">[93]</a> In 2012, <a href="/wiki/Banner_ad" class="mw-redirect" title="Banner ad">banner ads</a> for Canada's <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Canada)" title="Minister of Finance (Canada)">Department of Finance</a> <a href="/wiki/2009_Canadian_federal_budget" title="2009 Canadian federal budget">Economic Action Plan</a> were placed atop search results, as part of a larger "media buy", but were pulled "quickly".<a href="#cite_note-bLGyz-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-enOCP-95">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cryptocurrency_mining_and_tokens">Cryptocurrency mining and tokens</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Cryptocurrency mining and tokens">edit</a>]</div> In 2017, The Pirate Bay embedded scripts on its website that would consume resources on visitors' computers in order to <a href="/wiki/Monero#Mining_malware" title="Monero">mine the Monero cryptocurrency.</a> Visitors were initially not informed that these scripts had been added.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> After negative feedback, the operators published an announcement stating that it was a test to see if it could replace advertisements.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> The mining script appeared and disappeared from the website repeatedly over the following months through 2018.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> In 2021 The Pirate Bay embarked in a short lived creation of their own crypto tokens, which were rapidly abandoned. <a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fee">Fee</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Fee">edit</a>]</div> According to the site's usage policy, it reserves the right to charge commercial policy violators "a basic fee of €5,000 plus bandwidth and other costs that may arise due to the violation".<a href="#cite_note-vJrrc-100">[100]</a> Sunde accused Swedish book publishers, who scraped the site for information about copyrighted books, of violating the usage policy, and asserted TPB's copyright on its database.<a href="#cite_note-Wired_TPB-101">[101]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Projects">Projects</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Projects">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ThePirateBay.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Jubilee! cartoon of a lush island with Mount Sharemore volcano, Fall of Mediadefender waterfall, The Pirate Bay bay. Around the island are Seeder's Cave, Crew's Nest hut, Sealand, a Grave of MPAA, the Dead Torrents Swamp, Ponténs Rock and Lawyers Gallow." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/ThePirateBay.jpg/280px-ThePirateBay.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/ThePirateBay.jpg/420px-ThePirateBay.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/ThePirateBay.jpg 2x" data-file-width="452" data-file-height="286" /></a><figcaption>"Jubilee!" – on the homepage 31 January 2008<a href="#cite_note-F5m53-102">[102]</a></figcaption></figure> The team behind The Pirate Bay has worked on several websites and software projects of varying degrees of permanence. In 2007, <a href="/wiki/BayImg" title="BayImg">BayImg</a>, an image hosting website similar to <a href="/wiki/TinyPic" title="TinyPic">TinyPic</a> went online in June.<a href="#cite_note-ZDnlAug07-103">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-e8irV-104">[104]</a> Pre-publication images posted to BayImg became part of a legal battle when <a href="/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Publications" class="mw-redirect" title="Condé Nast Publications">Conde Nast</a>'s network was later allegedly hacked.<a href="#cite_note-Nr5ow-105">[105]</a><a href="#cite_note-GU4ku-106">[106]</a> In July, "within hours after <a href="/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman" title="Ingmar Bergman">Ingmar Bergman</a>'s death", BergmanBits.com was launched, listing torrents for the director's films,<a href="#cite_note-ZDnlAug07-103">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-pLwCk-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-Oxg85-108">[108]</a> online until mid-2008.<a href="#cite_note-oML3a-109">[109]</a> In August, The Pirate Bay relaunched the BitTorrent website <a href="/wiki/Suprnova.org" title="Suprnova.org">Suprnova.org</a> to perform the same functions as The Pirate Bay, with different torrent trackers, but the site languished; the domain was returned to its original owner in August 2010, and it now redirects to TorrentFreak.tv.<a href="#cite_note-DXYRD-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-cXbBA-111">[111]</a> Suprbay.org was introduced in August as the official forum for ThePirateBay.org and the various sites connected to it. Users can request reseeding of torrents, or report malware within torrent files or illegal material on ThePirateBay.org.<a href="#cite_note-e2Mlp-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-d2JOb-113">[113]</a> BOiNK was announced in October 2007 in response to the raid on <a href="/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace" title="Oink's Pink Palace">Oink's Pink Palace</a>, a music-oriented BitTorrent website.<a href="#cite_note-7ErFs-114">[114]</a> A month later Sunde cancelled BOiNK, citing the many new music websites created since the downfall of OiNK.<a href="#cite_note-54K7h-115">[115]</a> A <a href="/wiki/OS_X" class="mw-redirect" title="OS X">Mac</a> <a href="/wiki/Dashboard_(Mac_OS)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dashboard (Mac OS)">dashboard widget</a> was released in December, listing "top 10 stuff currently on TPB, either per category or the full list".<a href="#cite_note-GEncd-116">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-18cWL-117">[117]</a> SlopsBox, a <a href="/wiki/Disposable_email_address" title="Disposable email address">disposable email address</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-spam" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-spam">anti-spam</a> service, also appeared in December,<a href="#cite_note-bORWd-118">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-AP3Ar-119">[119]</a> and was reviewed in 2009.<a href="#cite_note-FJvQx-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-rWLNu-121">[121]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The.Pirate.Bay.Cartoon-small.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Political cartoon from 2009: an entertainment industry man, reminiscing about the dangers radio, TV, home taping, and VCRs posed to existing industries, declares the new threat: the Internet. He says a family watching uploaded content, with copyrighted material, is stealing, and that "copyrights are worth more than your human rights"." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/The.Pirate.Bay.Cartoon-small.png/170px-The.Pirate.Bay.Cartoon-small.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/The.Pirate.Bay.Cartoon-small.png/255px-The.Pirate.Bay.Cartoon-small.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/The.Pirate.Bay.Cartoon-small.png/340px-The.Pirate.Bay.Cartoon-small.png 2x" data-file-width="2672" data-file-height="4366" /></a><figcaption>Political cartoon criticising the entertainment industry on the main page of TPB</figcaption></figure> In 2008, Baywords was launched as a free blogging service that lets users of the site blog about anything as long as it does not break any Swedish laws.<a href="#cite_note-Rv1gn-122">[122]</a> In December, The Pirate Bay resurrected <a href="/wiki/ShareReactor" title="ShareReactor">ShareReactor</a> as a combined <a href="/wiki/EDonkey_network" title="EDonkey network">eD2k</a> and BitTorrent site.<a href="#cite_note-WT0va-123">[123]</a> The same month, the Vio mobile video converter was released, designed to convert video files for playback on mobile devices such as <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a>, <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry" title="BlackBerry">BlackBerry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>, many <a href="/wiki/Nokia" title="Nokia">Nokia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile" title="Windows Mobile">Windows Mobile</a> devices.<a href="#cite_note-8V0rO-124">[124]</a> In 2009, Pastebay, a note sharing service<a href="#cite_note-T3Yex-125">[125]</a> similar to <a href="/wiki/Pastebin" title="Pastebin">Pastebin</a>, was made available to the public as of 23 March.<a href="#cite_note-am5bQ-126">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-02JHk-127">[127]</a> The Video Bay video streaming/sharing site was announced in June to be "The YouTube Killer", with content viewable in <a href="/wiki/HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML 5</a>-capable browsers.<a href="#cite_note-ffsmc-128">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-Dmo1b-129">[129]</a> The site was in an "Extreme Beta" phase; a message on the homepage instructed the user "don't expect anything to work at all".<a href="#cite_note-QY2oY-130">[130]</a> The Video Bay was never completed and as of 28 April 2013, The Video Bay is inaccessible. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TPB_supports_Chanology-Dec09.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A 2009 cartoon of a seated faceless figure in a suit, with a brick of money, announcing a contest to prank Scientology, make videos and win $$$" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/TPB_supports_Chanology-Dec09.png/220px-TPB_supports_Chanology-Dec09.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/TPB_supports_Chanology-Dec09.png/330px-TPB_supports_Chanology-Dec09.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/TPB_supports_Chanology-Dec09.png/440px-TPB_supports_Chanology-Dec09.png 2x" data-file-width="855" data-file-height="765" /></a><figcaption>A contest by <a href="/wiki/Project_Chanology" title="Project Chanology">Project Chanology</a> advertised at The Pirate Bay in December 2009</figcaption></figure> On 18 April 2011, Pirate Bay temporarily changed its name to "Research Bay", collaborating with P2P researchers of the <a href="/wiki/Lund_University" title="Lund University">Lund University</a> <a href="/wiki/Cybernorms_group" title="Cybernorms group">Cybernorms group</a> in a large poll of P2P users.<a href="#cite_note-eIo7s-131">[131]</a> The researchers published their results online on "The Survey Bay", as a public Creative Commons project in 2013.<a href="#cite_note-qbzK6-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-NpURa-133">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-Pirate_Bay_North_Korea_move_a_hoax-134">[134]</a> In January 2012, the site announced The Promo Bay; "doodles" by selected musicians, artists and others could be rotated onto the site's front page at a future date.<a href="#cite_note-mi4vL-135">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-MSwmx-136">[136]</a> Brazilian novelist <a href="/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" title="Paulo Coelho">Paulo Coelho</a> was promoted, offering a collection of his books for free download.<a href="#cite_note-KsddD-137">[137]</a> By November, 10,000 artists were reported to have signed up.<a href="#cite_note-1JeJT-138">[138]</a> TPB preserves a dated collection of exhibited logos.<a href="#cite_note-Doodles-139">[139]</a> On 2 December 2012, some ISPs in the UK such as <a href="/wiki/BT_Total_Broadband" class="mw-redirect" title="BT Total Broadband">BT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Media" title="Virgin Media">Virgin Media</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Be_Un_Limited" title="Be Un Limited">BE</a> started blocking The Promo Bay<a href="#cite_note-amhea-140">[140]</a> but stopped a few days later when the <a href="/wiki/British_Phonographic_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="British Phonographic Institute">BPI</a> reversed its position.<a href="#cite_note-BywwQ-141">[141]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Purchases">Purchases</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Purchases">edit</a>]</div> In January 2007, when the micronation of <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand" title="Principality of Sealand">Sealand</a> was put up for sale, the ACFI and The Pirate Bay tried to buy it. The Sealand government, however, did not want to be involved with The Pirate Bay, as it was their opinion that file sharing represented "theft of proprietary rights".<a href="#cite_note-ho0ik-142">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-dailytech2007-143">[143]</a> A new plan was formed to buy an island instead, but this too was never implemented, despite the website having raised US$25,000 (€15,000) in donations for this cause.<a href="#cite_note-63UUb-144">[144]</a> The P2P news blog TorrentFreak reported on 12 October 2007 that the Internet domain ifpi.com, which previously belonged to the <a href="/wiki/IFPI" class="mw-redirect" title="IFPI">International Federation of the Phonographic Industry</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Piracy_(media)" class="mw-redirect" title="Piracy (media)">anti-piracy</a> organisation, had been acquired by The Pirate Bay. When asked about how they got hold of the domain, Sunde told TorrentFreak, "It's not a hack, someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it's ours and we're keeping it." The website was renamed "The International Federation of Pirates Interests"<a href="#cite_note-b3od3-145">[145]</a> However, the IFPI filed a complaint with the <a href="/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization" title="World Intellectual Property Organization">World Intellectual Property Organization</a> shortly thereafter, which subsequently ordered The Pirate Bay to return the domain name to the IFPI.<a href="#cite_note-JjEv7-146">[146]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cryptocurrency">Cryptocurrency</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Cryptocurrency">edit</a>]</div> On 12 May 2021, The Pirate Bay launched Pirate Token, a <a href="/wiki/Binance#Cryptocurrencies" title="Binance">BEP-20</a> <a href="/wiki/Cryptocurrency" title="Cryptocurrency">token</a>, to be used to sustain its community and develop tools for the website.<a href="#cite_note-piratetoken-147">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-piratetokenfirsttransaction-148">[148]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incidents">Incidents</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Incidents">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_2006_raid">May 2006 raid</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: May 2006 raid">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_raid" title="The Pirate Bay raid">The Pirate Bay raid</a></div> On 31 May 2006, a raid against The Pirate Bay and people involved with the website took place as ordered by Swedish judge Tomas Norström, later the presiding judge of the 2009 trial, prompted by allegations of copyright violations. Police officers shut down the website and confiscated its servers, as well as all other servers hosted by The Pirate Bay's Internet service provider, <a href="/wiki/PRQ" title="PRQ">PRQ</a>. The company is owned by two operators of The Pirate Bay. Three people – Neij, Svartholm and Mikael Viborg – were held by the police for questioning, but were released later that evening.<a href="#cite_note-HxFl5-149">[149]</a> All servers in the room were seized, including those running the website of Piratbyrån, an independent organisation fighting for file sharing rights, as well as servers unrelated to The Pirate Bay or other file sharing activities. Equipment such as hardware routers, switches, blank CDs, and fax machines were also seized.<a href="#cite_note-QJXLx-150">[150]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Association of America">Motion Picture Association of America</a> (MPAA) wrote in a press release: "Since filing a criminal complaint in Sweden in November 2004, the film industry has worked vigorously with Swedish and U.S. government officials in Sweden to shut this illegal website down." MPAA CEO <a href="/wiki/Dan_Glickman" title="Dan Glickman">Dan Glickman</a> also stated, "<a href="/wiki/Intellectual_property_theft" class="mw-redirect" title="Intellectual property theft">Intellectual property theft</a> is a problem for film industries all over the world and we are glad that the local government in Sweden has helped stop The Pirate Bay from continuing to enable rampant copyright theft on the Internet." The MPAA press release set forth its justification for the raid and claimed that there were three arrests; however, the individuals were not actually arrested, only held for questioning. The release also reprinted John G. Malcolm's allegation that The Pirate Bay was making money from the distribution of copyrighted material, a criticism denied by The Pirate Bay.<a href="#cite_note-EfbOj-151">[151]</a> After the raid, The Pirate Bay displayed a message that confirmed that the Swedish police had executed search warrants for breach of copyright law or assisting such a breach. The closure message initially caused some confusion because on 1 April 2005, <a href="/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day" title="April Fools' Day">April Fools' Day</a>, The Pirate Bay had posted a similar message as a <a href="/wiki/Prank" class="mw-redirect" title="Prank">prank</a>, stating that they were unavailable due to a raid by the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau and IFPI. Piratbyrån set up a temporary news blog to inform the public about the incident.<a href="#cite_note-GPqhA-152">[152]</a> On 2 June 2006, The Pirate Bay was available once again, with their logo depicting a pirate ship firing cannonballs at the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Sign" title="Hollywood Sign">Hollywood Sign</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4LaNq-153">[153]</a> The Pirate Bay has servers in both Belgium and Russia for future use in case of another raid.<a href="#cite_note-RegResurfaces-154">[154]</a> According to The Pirate Bay, in the two years following the raid, it grew from 1 million to 2.7 million registered users and from 2.5 million to 12 million peers.<a href="#cite_note-still-15">[15]</a> The Pirate Bay now claims over 5 million active users.<a href="#cite_note-latimes1-155">[155]</a> Sweden's largest technology museum, the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_National_Museum_of_Science_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology">Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology</a>, acquired one of the confiscated servers in 2009 and exhibited it for having great symbolic value as a "big problem or a big opportunity".<a href="#cite_note-TELvF-156">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autopsy_photos">Autopsy photos</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Autopsy photos">edit</a>]</div> In September 2008, the Swedish media reported that the public preliminary investigation protocols concerning a child murder case known as the <a href="/wiki/Christine_Sch%C3%BCrrer" title="Christine Schürrer">Arboga case</a> had been made available through a torrent on The Pirate Bay. In Sweden, preliminary investigations became publicly available the moment a lawsuit is filed and can be ordered from the court by any individual. The document included pictures from the autopsy of the two murdered children, which caused their father Nicklas Jangestig to urge the website to have the pictures removed.<a href="#cite_note-3Mvb5-157">[157]</a> The Pirate Bay refused to remove the torrent. The number of downloads increased to about 50,000 a few days later.<a href="#cite_note-qGcHm-158">[158]</a> On 11 September 2008, Sunde participated in the debate program Debatt on the public broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Sveriges_Television" title="Sveriges Television">SVT</a>. He had agreed to participate on the condition that the children's father, Nicklas Jangestig, would not take part in the debate. Jangestig ultimately did participate in the program by telephone, which made Sunde feel betrayed by SVT.<a href="#cite_note-RKTWV-159">[159]</a> This caused The Pirate Bay to suspend all of its press contacts the following day.<a href="#cite_note-J6AZA-160">[160]</a> "I don't think it's our job to judge if something is ethical or unethical or what other people want to put out on the internet", Sunde said to TV4.<a href="#cite_note-NLQtT-161">[161]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legal_issues">Legal issues</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Legal issues">edit</a>]</div> In September 2007, a large number of internal emails were leaked from <a href="/wiki/Piracy_(media)" class="mw-redirect" title="Piracy (media)">anti-piracy</a> company <a href="/wiki/MediaDefender" title="MediaDefender">MediaDefender</a> by an anonymous hacker. Some of the leaked emails discussed hiring <a href="/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hacker (computer security)">hackers</a> to perform <a href="/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" title="Denial-of-service attack">DDoS attacks</a> on The Pirate Bay's servers and trackers.<a href="#cite_note-bbchistory-162">[162]</a> In response to the leak, The Pirate Bay filed charges in Sweden against MediaDefender clients <a href="/wiki/Twentieth_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="Twentieth Century Fox">Twentieth Century Fox</a> Sweden AB, <a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a> Sweden AB, <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> Sweden AB, <a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a> Nordic AB, <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Home_Entertainment" title="Paramount Home Entertainment">Paramount Home Entertainment</a> (Sweden) AB, <a href="/wiki/Atari" title="Atari">Atari</a> Nordic AB, <a href="/wiki/Activision" title="Activision">Activision</a> Nordic, <a href="/wiki/Ubisoft" title="Ubisoft">Ubisoft</a> Sweden AB, <a href="/wiki/Sony_BMG_Music_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony BMG Music Entertainment">Sony BMG Music Entertainment</a> (Sweden) AB, and <a href="/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Home_Entertainment" title="Sony Pictures Home Entertainment">Sony Pictures Home Entertainment</a> Nordic AB,<a href="#cite_note-YKMow-163">[163]</a> but the charges were not pursued.<a href="#cite_note-bbchistory-162">[162]</a> MediaDefender's stocks fell sharply after this incident, and several media companies withdrew from the service after the company announced the leak had caused $825,000 in losses.<a href="#cite_note-eRDwK-164">[164]</a> Later, Sunde accused police investigator Jim Keyzer of a conflict of interest when he declined to investigate MediaDefender. Keyzer later accepted a job for MPAA member studio <a href="/wiki/Warner_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Brothers">Warner Brothers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-O3Yx3-165">[165]</a> The leaked emails revealed that other MPAA member studios hired MediaDefender to <a href="/wiki/Spoofing_(anti-piracy_measure)" title="Spoofing (anti-piracy measure)">pollute</a> The Pirate Bay's torrent database.<a href="#cite_note-r4Hpq-166">[166]</a> In an official letter to the Swedish Minister of Justice, the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> (IOC) requested assistance from the Swedish government to prevent The Pirate Bay from distributing video clips of the <a href="/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" title="2008 Summer Olympics">Beijing Olympics</a>. The IOC claimed there were more than one million downloads of footage from the Olympics – mostly of the opening ceremony. The Pirate Bay, however, did not take anything down, and temporarily renamed the website to The Beijing Bay.<a href="#cite_note-ehEuG-167">[167]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:R%C3%A4tteg%C3%A5ngen_mot_TPB_-_2009-02-16_(gabbe).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/R%C3%A4tteg%C3%A5ngen_mot_TPB_-_2009-02-16_%28gabbe%29.jpg/220px-R%C3%A4tteg%C3%A5ngen_mot_TPB_-_2009-02-16_%28gabbe%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/R%C3%A4tteg%C3%A5ngen_mot_TPB_-_2009-02-16_%28gabbe%29.jpg/330px-R%C3%A4tteg%C3%A5ngen_mot_TPB_-_2009-02-16_%28gabbe%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/R%C3%A4tteg%C3%A5ngen_mot_TPB_-_2009-02-16_%28gabbe%29.jpg/440px-R%C3%A4tteg%C3%A5ngen_mot_TPB_-_2009-02-16_%28gabbe%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2108" data-file-height="1192" /></a><figcaption>Protestors showing support for The Pirate Bay on the first day of <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial" title="The Pirate Bay trial">the trial</a></figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial" title="The Pirate Bay trial">trial</a> against the men behind the Pirate Bay started in Sweden on 16 February 2009. They were accused of breaking Swedish copyright law.<a href="#cite_note-anjj9-168">[168]</a> The defendants, however, continued to be confident about the outcome.<a href="#cite_note-QNFQl-169">[169]</a> Half the charges against The Pirate Bay were dropped on the second day of the trial.<a href="#cite_note-VXEAy-170">[170]</a> The three operators of the site and their one investor Carl Lundström were convicted in Stockholm district court on 17 April 2009 and sentenced to one year in jail each and a total of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million, €2.7 million, £2.4 million sterling) in fines and damages.<a href="#cite_note-TNtie-171">[171]</a> The defendants' lawyers appealed to the <a href="/wiki/Svea_Court_of_Appeal" title="Svea Court of Appeal">Svea Court of Appeal</a> and requested a retrial in the district court, alleging bias on the part of judge Tomas Norström.<a href="#cite_note-localretrial-172">[172]</a> On 13 May 2009, several record companies again sued The Pirate Bay's founders as well as their main <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">internet service provider</a> Black Internet. They required enforcement for ending The Pirate Bay's accessory to copyright infringement that had not stopped despite the court order in April, and in the complaint listed several pages of works being shared with the help of the site. The suit was joined by several major film companies on 30 July.<a href="#cite_note-FkiZ2-173">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-7DA07-174">[174]</a> The Stockholm district court ruled on 21 August that Black Internet must stop making available the specific works mentioned in the judgment, or face a 500,000 kronor fine.<a href="#cite_note-lgOM6-175">[175]</a> The company was notified of the order on 24 August, and they complied with it on the same day by disconnecting The Pirate Bay.<a href="#cite_note-3jCPF-176">[176]</a> <a href="/wiki/Computer_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer Sweden">Computer Sweden</a> noted that the judgment did not order The Pirate Bay to be disconnected, but the ISP had no other option for stopping the activity on the site.<a href="#cite_note-Swvq2-177">[177]</a> It was the first time in Sweden for an ISP to be forced to stop providing access for a website.<a href="#cite_note-OhXqp-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-3QhVp-179">[179]</a><a href="#cite_note-SQl3L-180">[180]</a> A public support fund fronted by the CEO of the ISP was set up to cover the legal fees of an appeal.<a href="#cite_note-dsph9-181">[181]</a> <a href="/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Sweden)" title="Pirate Party (Sweden)">Pirate Party</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Rickard_Falkvinge" class="mw-redirect" title="Rickard Falkvinge">Rickard Falkvinge</a> submitted the case for <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Ombudsman" title="Parliamentary Ombudsman">Parliamentary Ombudsman</a> review, criticising the court's order to make intermediaries responsible for relayed content and to assign active crime prevention tasks to a private party.<a href="#cite_note-uh6tN-182">[182]</a><a href="#cite_note-iP1lh-183">[183]</a> On 28 October 2009, the Stockholm District Court ordered a <a href="/wiki/Temporary_injunction" class="mw-redirect" title="Temporary injunction">temporary injunction</a> on Neij and Svartholm with a penalty of 500,000 kronor each, forbidding them from participating in the operation of The Pirate Bay's website or trackers.<a href="#cite_note-CXeFX-184">[184]</a><a href="#cite_note-gervY-185">[185]</a> On 21 May 2010, the <a href="/wiki/Svea_Court_of_Appeal" title="Svea Court of Appeal">Svea Court of Appeal</a> decided not to change the orders on Black Internet or Neij and Svartholm.<a href="#cite_note-localban-186">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-s8PTb-187">[187]</a> On 1 February 2012, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Sweden" title="Supreme Court of Sweden">Supreme Court of Sweden</a> refused to hear an appeal in the conviction case, and agreed with the decision of the Svea Court of Appeal, which had upheld the sentences in November 2011.<a href="#cite_note-4l6u0-188">[188]</a> On 2 September 2012 Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia. He was detained in <a href="/wiki/Phnom_Penh" title="Phnom Penh">Phnom Penh</a> by officers executing an international warrant issued against him in April after he did not turn up to serve a one-year jail sentence for copyright violations.<a href="#cite_note-WTjky-189">[189]</a> On 24 December 2012, administrators of TPB changed the homepage to urge users to send Warg, in jail, "gifts and letters". In March 2013, The Pirate Bay claimed in a blog post that it had moved its servers to <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>. The incident turned out to be a hoax.<a href="#cite_note-Pirate_Bay_North_Korea_move_a_hoax-134">[134]</a> In April 2013, within a week The Pirate Bay had moved its servers from <a href="/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenland</a> to <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> to <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten">St. Martin</a>, either in response to legal threats or preemptively.<a href="#cite_note-SsjOP-190">[190]</a> In December 2013, the site changed its domain to <a href="/wiki/.ac" title=".ac">.ac</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ascension_Island" title="Ascension Island">Ascension Island</a>), following the seizure of the <a href="/wiki/.sx" title=".sx">.sx</a> domain.<a href="#cite_note-eZ4g3-191">[191]</a> On 12 December, the site moved to <a href="/wiki/.pe" title=".pe">.pe</a> (<a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>),<a href="#cite_note-Swajv-192">[192]</a> on 18 December to <a href="/wiki/.gy" title=".gy">.gy</a> (<a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a>).<a href="#cite_note-Glrl0-193">[193]</a> Following the site's suspension from the .gy domain, on 19 December The Pirate Bay returned to <a href="/wiki/.se" title=".se">.se</a> (Sweden), which it had previously occupied between February 2012 and April 2013.<a href="#cite_note-iXQya-194">[194]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trial">Trial</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Trial">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial" title="The Pirate Bay trial">The Pirate Bay trial</a></div> The Pirate Bay trial was a joint <a href="/wiki/Criminal_law" title="Criminal law">criminal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)" title="Civil law (legal system)">civil</a> prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a> of others with The Pirate Bay site.<a href="#cite_note-kravets-195">[195]</a><a href="#cite_note-larsson-196">[196]</a> The criminal charges were supported by a consortium of <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Intellectual rights">intellectual rights</a> holders led by <a href="/wiki/IFPI" class="mw-redirect" title="IFPI">IFPI</a>, who filed individual civil compensation claims against the owners of The Pirate Bay.<a href="#cite_note-TIME-197">[197]</a> Swedish <a href="/wiki/Prosecutor" title="Prosecutor">prosecutors</a> filed charges on 31 January 2008 against the founders along with Carl Lundström, a Swedish businessman who through his businesses sold services to the site. The prosecutor claimed the four worked together to administer, host, and develop the site and thereby facilitated other people's breach of copyright law. Some 34 cases of copyright infringements were originally listed, of which 21 were related to music files, 9 to movies, and 4 to games.<a href="#cite_note-larsson-196">[196]</a> One case involving music files was later dropped by the copyright holder who made the file available again on The Pirate Bay site. In addition, claims for damages of 117 million <a href="/wiki/Swedish_krona" title="Swedish krona">kronor</a> ($13 million, €12.5 million) were filed.<a href="#cite_note-timescharges-198">[198]</a> The case was decided jointly by a judge and three appointed <a href="/wiki/Lay_judge#Sweden" title="Lay judge">lay judges</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7OU4s-199">[199]</a><a href="#cite_note-qohsn-200">[200]</a> According to Swedish media, the lead judge, judge Norström, was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and sat on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, but denied that his involvement constituted a conflict of interest.<a href="#cite_note-D9rl9-201">[201]</a> The trial started on 16 February 2009, in the <a href="/wiki/Tingsr%C3%A4tt" class="mw-redirect" title="Tingsrätt">district court</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tingsr%C3%A4tt" class="mw-redirect" title="Tingsrätt">tingsrätt</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a>, Sweden. The hearings ended on 3 March 2009 and the verdict was announced at 11:00 am on Friday 17 April 2009: Neij, Sunde, Svartholm and Lundström were all found guilty and sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine of 30 million Swedish krona (app. €2.7 million or US$3.5 million). All of the defendants appealed the verdict. The appeal trial concluded on 15 October 2010,<a href="#cite_note-ddF35-202">[202]</a> and the verdict was announced on 26 November. The appeal court shortened sentences of three of the defendants who appeared in court that day. Neij's sentence was reduced to 10 months, Sunde's to eight, and Lundström's to four. However, the fine was increased from 32 to 46 million kronor.<a href="#cite_note-qkIlO-203">[203]</a> On 1 February 2012, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Sweden" title="Supreme Court of Sweden">Supreme Court of Sweden</a> refused to hear an appeal in the case, prompting the site to change its official domain name to thepiratebay.se from thepiratebay.org. The move to a <a href="/wiki/.se" title=".se">.se</a> domain was claimed to prevent susceptibility to US laws from taking control of the site.<a href="#cite_note-domainse-204">[204]</a> On 9 April 2013, the site changed its domain name to thepiratebay.gl, under the <a href="/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenland</a> <a href="/wiki/TLD" class="mw-redirect" title="TLD">TLD</a>, in anticipation of possible seizure by Swedish authorities of its .se domain.<a href="#cite_note-domaingl-205">[205]</a> The change proved to be short lived, as the site returned to the .se domain on 12 April 2013 after being blocked on the .gl domain by <a href="/wiki/TELE_Greenland" class="mw-redirect" title="TELE Greenland">Tele-Post</a>, which administers domains in Greenland. Tele-Post cited a Danish court ruling that the site was in violation of copyright laws.<a href="#cite_note-1520F-206">[206]</a> The founders were all released after having finished serving their sentences by 2015.<a href="#cite_note-theguardian_June_2,_2015-4">[4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Service_issues">Service issues</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Service issues">edit</a>]</div> In May 2007, The Pirate Bay was attacked by a group of <a href="/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hacker (computer security)">hackers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-171xp-207">[207]</a> They copied the user database, which included over 1.5 million users. The Pirate Bay claimed to its users that the data was of no value and that passwords and e-mails were <a href="/wiki/Encrypted" class="mw-redirect" title="Encrypted">encrypted</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hash_function" title="Hash function">hashed</a>. Some blogs stated that a group known as the AUH (Arga Unga Hackare, Swedish for "Angry Young Hackers") were suspected of executing the attack; however, the AUH stated on the Computer Sweden newspaper that they were not involved and would take revenge on those responsible for the attack.<a href="#cite_note-Sz3o8-208">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-ozZ1g-209">[209]</a> On 27 April 2009, the website of The Pirate Bay had <a href="/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication" title="Fiber-optic communication">fibre</a> <a href="/wiki/IPv4" title="IPv4">IPv4</a> connectivity issues. There was widespread speculation this was a forced outage from the Swedish <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">anti-piracy</a> group, accelerated somewhat by TPB adding contact details for the Swedish anti-piracy group's lawyers to its <a href="/wiki/RIPE_NCC" title="RIPE NCC">RIPE</a> database record.<a href="#cite_note-8dfsL-210">[210]</a><a href="#cite_note-KVYqf-211">[211]</a> The site and its forums were still available via <a href="/wiki/IPv6" title="IPv6">IPv6</a> at the time.<a href="#cite_note-yHzTh-212">[212]</a> On 24 August 2009, one of The Pirate Bay's upstream providers was ordered to discontinue service for the website by a Swedish court in response to a <a href="/wiki/Civil_action" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil action">civil action</a> brought by several entertainment companies including <a href="/wiki/Disney" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney">Disney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Universal_Studios_Home_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Studios Home Entertainment">Universal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Time_Warner" class="mw-redirect" title="Time Warner">Time Warner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a>, <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount</a>.<a href="#cite_note-dailytech2007-143">[143]</a> According to the TPB Blog, this caused a <a href="/wiki/Downtime" title="Downtime">downtime</a> of 3 hours;<a href="#cite_note-AqwT3-213">[213]</a> however, some users were unable to access the site immediately following the relocation due to unrelated technical difficulties. The site was fully operational again for everyone within 24 hours.<a href="#cite_note-BiXiJ-214">[214]</a> On 6 October 2009, one of the IP transit providers to The Pirate Bay blocked all Pirate Bay traffic causing an outage for most users around the world.<a href="#cite_note-Zbhab-215">[215]</a> The same day, the site was reportedly back online at an IP address at <a href="/wiki/CyberBunker" title="CyberBunker">CyberBunker</a>, located in the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>.<a href="#cite_note-TFbunker-216">[216]</a> It is not known whether The Pirate Bay is actually located at CyberBunker or whether they are using the CyberBunker service that routes CyberBunker IP addresses to any datacenter around the world. These routes are not visible to the outside world. CyberBunker was given a court injunction on 17 May 2010, taking the site offline briefly;<a href="#cite_note-Injunction-21">[21]</a> later that day, hosting was restored by Sweden's <a href="/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Sweden)" title="Pirate Party (Sweden)">Pirate Party</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4dHI3-217">[217]</a><a href="#cite_note-Cfrnm-218">[218]</a> Now former spokesman Sunde commented that it would now be very difficult to stop the site because it would now be seen as political censorship if anyone tries to shut it down.<a href="#cite_note-9H34O-219">[219]</a> On 8 July 2010, a group of Argentine hackers gained access to The Pirate Bay's administration panel through a security breach via the backend of The Pirate Bay website. They were able to delete torrents and expose users' IP-addresses, emails and MD5-hashed passwords. The Pirate Bay was taken offline for upgrades. Users visiting the website were met by the following message: "Upgrading some stuff, database is in use for backups, soon back again. Btw, it's nice weather outside I think."<a href="#cite_note-F5NQ4-220">[220]</a><a href="#cite_note-IbBRa-221">[221]</a> On 16 May 2012, The Pirate Bay experienced a major <a href="/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" title="Denial-of-service attack">DDoS</a> attack, causing the site to be largely inaccessible worldwide for around 24 hours. The Pirate Bay said that it did not know who was behind the attack, although it "had its suspicions".<a href="#cite_note-ddos-222">[222]</a> On 5 May 2015, The Pirate Bay went offline for several hours, apparently as a result of not properly configuring its <a href="/wiki/SSL_certificate" class="mw-redirect" title="SSL certificate">SSL certificate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-c2XXR-223">[223]</a><a href="#cite_note-auto-224">[224]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquisition_discussion">Acquisition discussion</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Acquisition discussion">edit</a>]</div> On 30 June 2009, Swedish advertising company <a href="/wiki/Global_Gaming_Factory_X_AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Global Gaming Factory X AB">Global Gaming Factory X AB</a> announced their intention to buy the site for 60 million kronor (approximately US$8.5 million) (30 million kronor in cash, 30 million kronor in <a href="/wiki/Global_Gaming_Factory_X_AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Global Gaming Factory X AB">GGF</a> shares).<a href="#cite_note-GGF-225">[225]</a><a href="#cite_note-thepiratebay.org-blog-164-226">[226]</a> The Pirate Bay founders stated that the profits from the sale would be placed in an <a href="/wiki/Offshore_account" class="mw-redirect" title="Offshore account">offshore account</a> where it would be used to fund projects pertaining to "freedom of speech, freedom of information, and the openness of the Internet".<a href="#cite_note-GGF-225">[225]</a><a href="#cite_note-thepiratebay.org-blog-164-226">[226]</a><a href="#cite_note-nvNWb-227">[227]</a><a href="#cite_note-oThLQ-228">[228]</a> Assurances were made that "no personal data will be transferred in the eventual sale (since no personal data is kept)."<a href="#cite_note-XwAMp-229">[229]</a> Global Gaming Chief Executive Hans Pandeya commented on the site's future by saying "We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site", and announced that users would be charged a monthly fee for access to The Pirate Bay. Global Gaming Factory's letter of intent expired at the end of September 2009, without the transaction having taken place. This may be due to the company's financial difficulties. "PC World" magazine regarded the deal's future as "doomed".<a href="#cite_note-ZwG9t-230">[230]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_2014_raid">December 2014 raid</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: December 2014 raid">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Hydra_Bay_logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/The_Hydra_Bay_logo.png/220px-The_Hydra_Bay_logo.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/The_Hydra_Bay_logo.png/330px-The_Hydra_Bay_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/The_Hydra_Bay_logo.png/440px-The_Hydra_Bay_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="516" data-file-height="436" /></a><figcaption>The Hydra Bay logo; occasionally displayed on the official website</figcaption></figure> On 9 December 2014, police in Stockholm raided the company's premises and seized servers and other computers and equipment, which resulted in the website going offline. The raid was in response to a complaint from Rights Alliance, a Swedish anti-piracy group.<a href="#cite_note-guardian_raid-6">[6]</a> The Pirate Bay was one of many peer-to-peer and torrent-related websites and apps that went down.<a href="#cite_note-WRD-20141209-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-TF-20141209-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-GZM=20141209-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-TV-20141210-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-TM-20141210-32">[32]</a> One member of the crew was arrested. Torrent Freak reported that most <a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites" title="Comparison of BitTorrent sites">other torrent sites</a> reported a 5–10% increase in traffic from the displaced users,<a href="#cite_note-F3a7V-231">[231]</a> though the shutdown had little effect on overall <a href="/wiki/Online_piracy" title="Online piracy">piracy</a> levels.<a href="#cite_note-vari-232">[232]</a><a href="#cite_note-cmu_facebook-233">[233]</a> In retaliation to the raid, a group of hackers claiming to be part of <a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(group)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anonymous (group)">Anonymous</a> allegedly leaked email log-in details of Swedish government officials.<a href="#cite_note-smh_anon-234">[234]</a> Sunde commented in a blog post that he was happy to see the website shut down, believing his successors have done nothing to improve the site,<a href="#cite_note-engadget-235">[235]</a> criticising in particular the increased use of advertisements.<a href="#cite_note-ibtimes-236">[236]</a> <a href="/wiki/IsoHunt#IsoHunt_clones" title="IsoHunt">IsoHunt</a> has since copied much of the original TPB database and made it accessible through <a href="/wiki/IsoHunt#OldPirateBay.org" title="IsoHunt">oldpiratebay.org</a>, a searchable index of old Pirate Bay torrents.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_2014-12-15-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-Guard_2014-12-15-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-ibtimes-236">[236]</a> IsoHunt also released a tool called <a href="/wiki/IsoHunt#The_Open_Bay" title="IsoHunt">The Open Bay</a>, to allow users to deploy their own version of the Pirate Bay website.<a href="#cite_note-venture_openbay-237">[237]</a> The tool is responsible for around 372 mirror sites.<a href="#cite_note-Christian-238">[238]</a> Since 17 December 2014, The Pirate Bay's Facebook page has been unavailable.<a href="#cite_note-cmu_facebook-233">[233]</a><a href="#cite_note-torrentfreak_facebook-239">[239]</a> On 22 December 2014, a website was resumed at the domain thepiratebay.se, showing a <a href="/wiki/Flip_clock" title="Flip clock">flip clock</a> with the length of time in days and hours that the site had been offline, and a waving pirate flag.<a href="#cite_note-wire_Flag-240">[240]</a> From this day TPB was hosted for a period in <a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a>,<a href="#cite_note-wire_Flag-240">[240]</a> on Trabia Network (Moldo-German company) servers. The Pirate Bay then began using the services of <a href="/wiki/CloudFlare" class="mw-redirect" title="CloudFlare">CloudFlare</a>, a company which offers <a href="/wiki/Reverse_proxy" title="Reverse proxy">reverse proxy</a> services.<a href="#cite_note-BXX1w-241">[241]</a> On 1 January 2015, the website presented a countdown to 1 February 2015.<a href="#cite_note-TF-20150101-242">[242]</a><a href="#cite_note-IBT-20150102-243">[243]</a> The website returned with a prominent <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)" title="Phoenix (mythology)">phoenix</a> logo displayed at the domain thepiratebay.se on 31 January 2015.<a href="#cite_note-return-244">[244]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Error_522_downtimes">Error 522 downtimes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Error 522 downtimes">edit</a>]</div> Beginning in October 2018, the <a href="/wiki/Clearnet_(networking)" title="Clearnet (networking)">clearnet</a> Pirate Bay website started to be inaccessible in some locations around the world, showing <a href="/wiki/Error_522" class="mw-redirect" title="Error 522">Error 522</a>. As the result, direct visits to the website dropped by more than 32 percent in October. The incident was found to be unrelated to internet provider <a href="/wiki/Block_(Internet)" title="Block (Internet)">blocking</a> or <a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">domain name</a> problem, but the exact cause has not been determined. The site's <a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)" title="Tor (network)">Tor</a> domain and <a href="/wiki/Proxy_server" title="Proxy server">proxies</a> remained unaffected.<a href="#cite_note-tf-245">[245]</a> The Error 522 problem occurred again in early March 2020, with the site's admins unable to say when it would be resolved.<a href="#cite_note-error_522-246">[246]</a> After one month, the site's functionality was restored with an update of the domain records and the Cloudflare <a href="/wiki/Nameserver" class="mw-redirect" title="Nameserver">nameservers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cEZD5-247">[247]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Censorship_and_controversies">Censorship and controversies</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Censorship and controversies">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship" title="Internet censorship">Internet censorship</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country" title="Internet censorship and surveillance by country">Internet censorship and surveillance by country</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-copyright_movement">Anti-copyright movement</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Anti-copyright movement">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_copyright" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition to copyright">Opposition to copyright</a></div> The Pirate Bay has sparked controversies and discussion about <a href="/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing" title="Legal aspects of file sharing">legal aspects of file sharing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Civil_liberties" title="Civil liberties">civil liberties</a> and has become a platform for political initiatives against established intellectual property laws and a central figure in an <a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_copyright" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition to copyright">anti-copyright</a> movement.<a href="#cite_note-Jessica_L._Beyer.p.65-11">[11]</a> The website faced several shutdowns and domain seizures which "did little to take the site offline, as it simply switched to a series of new web addresses and continued to operate".<a href="#cite_note-theguardian_June_2,_2015-4">[4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domain_blocking_by_countries">Domain blocking by countries</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Domain blocking by countries">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_The_Pirate_Bay" title="Countries blocking access to The Pirate Bay">Countries blocking access to The Pirate Bay</a></div>The Pirate Bay's website has been <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship" title="Internet censorship">blocked</a> in some countries, despite the relative ease by which such <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention" title="Internet censorship circumvention">blocks can be circumvented</a> in most countries. While the <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a> to the Pirate Bay itself has been blocked in these countries, numerous <a href="/wiki/Mirror_website" class="mw-redirect" title="Mirror website">mirror websites</a> emerged to make the website available at different URLs, routing traffic around the block.<a href="#cite_note-8EaMi-248">[248]</a><a href="#cite_note-UkZ17-249">[249]</a><a href="#cite_note-PNFP6-250">[250]</a> According to Google chairman <a href="/wiki/Eric_Schmidt" title="Eric Schmidt">Eric Schmidt</a>, "government plans to block access to illicit filesharing websites could set a 'disastrous precedent' for freedom of speech"; he also expressed that Google would "fight attempts to restrict access to sites such as the Pirate Bay".<a href="#cite_note-oy0B8-251">[251]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sweden">Sweden</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Sweden">edit</a>]</div> On 13 February 2017, Sweden's Patent and Market Court of Appeal decided that the broadband provider <a href="/wiki/Bredbandsbolaget" title="Bredbandsbolaget">Bredbandsbolaget</a> must block its customers from accessing file sharing site The Pirate Bay, overruling a district court ruling to the contrary from 2015. This is the first time a site was openly blocked in Sweden. The rest of the ISPs are expected to follow the same court orders.<a href="#cite_note-w55ny-252">[252]</a><a href="#cite_note-aIq4E-253">[253]</a> The ISP <a href="/wiki/Telia_Company" title="Telia Company">Telia</a> was mandated to block the Pirate Bay through a dynamic injunction on 12 December 2019.<a href="#cite_note-254">[254]</a> This means that when the rights holders find a website (IP and URL for the Pirate Bay) they can inform Telia who are legally required to block it in 2–3 weeks.<a href="#cite_note-255">[255]</a> Telia objected to this blocking order and attempted to appeal the injunction but lost on 29 June 2020 and must maintain the dynamic injunction for 3 years.<a href="#cite_note-256">[256]</a><a href="#cite_note-257">[257]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Censorship_by_corporations">Censorship by corporations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Censorship by corporations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Facebook">Facebook</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Facebook">edit</a>]</div> After The Pirate Bay introduced a feature in March 2009 to easily share links to torrents on the <a href="/wiki/Social_networking" class="mw-redirect" title="Social networking">social networking</a> site <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wired_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wired (website)">Wired</a> found in May that Facebook had started blocking the links. On further inspection, they discovered that all messages containing links to The Pirate Bay in both public and in private messages, regardless of content, were being blocked. <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> lawyers commented that Facebook might be working against the US <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act" title="Electronic Communications Privacy Act">Electronic Communications Privacy Act</a> by intercepting user messages, but Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said that they have the right to use blocks on links where there is a "demonstrated disregard for intellectual property rights", following users' agreement on their terms of service. Links to other similar sites have not been blocked.<a href="#cite_note-vFaAg-258">[258]</a><a href="#cite_note-LFrPB-259">[259]</a><a href="#cite_note-eymzX-260">[260]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Microsoft">Microsoft</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Microsoft">edit</a>]</div> In March 2012, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> blocked <a href="/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Live Messenger">Windows Live Messenger</a> messages containing links to The Pirate Bay. When a user sends an instant message that contains a link to The Pirate Bay, Windows Live Messenger prompts a warning and claims "Blocked as it was reported unsafe". "We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user complaints. Pirate Bay URLs were flagged by one or more of these and were consequently blocked", Microsoft told <a href="/wiki/The_Register" title="The Register">The Register</a> in an emailed statement.<a href="#cite_note-tSc8S-261">[261]</a><a href="#cite_note-PnZm7-262">[262]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Google">Google</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Google">edit</a>]</div> In late November 2021, Google removed The Pirate Bay and more than 100 related domains from its search results in the Netherlands due to the Dutch court order.<a href="#cite_note-263">[263]</a> Two years later, in December 2023, the link to The Pirate Bay was removed from Google Knowledge Panel.<a href="#cite_note-264">[264]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_media">In media</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: In media">edit</a>]</div> The Pirate Bay is featured in <a href="/wiki/Steal_This_Film" title="Steal This Film">Steal This Film</a> (2006), a documentary series about society and filesharing, produced by <a href="/wiki/The_League_of_Noble_Peers" title="The League of Noble Peers">The League of Noble Peers</a>; in the Danish Documentary <a href="/wiki/Good_Copy_Bad_Copy" title="Good Copy Bad Copy">Good Copy Bad Copy</a>, which explores the issues surrounding file <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a>; and the documentary <a href="/wiki/TPB_AFK" title="TPB AFK">TPB AFK</a>. The Pirate Bay has been a topic on the US-syndicated <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a> radio show <a href="/wiki/On_the_Media" title="On the Media">On the Media</a>.<a href="#cite_note-otm1-265">[265]</a><a href="#cite_note-otm2-266">[266]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Ulvaeus" title="Björn Ulvaeus">Björn Ulvaeus</a>, member of the Swedish pop music group <a href="/wiki/ABBA" title="ABBA">ABBA</a>, criticised copyright infringing activities of The Pirate Bay supporters as "lazy and mean".<a href="#cite_note-TIME-197">[197]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ud1iY-267">[267]</a> In contrast, Brazilian best-selling author <a href="/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" title="Paulo Coelho">Paulo Coelho</a> has embraced free sharing online. Coelho supports The Pirate Bay and offered to be a witness in the 2009 trial. He accounts much of his growing sales to his work shared on the Internet and comments that "a person who does not share is not only selfish, but bitter and alone".<a href="#cite_note-jWbpT-268">[268]</a><a href="#cite_note-aMRki-269">[269]</a><a href="#cite_note-4tECC-270">[270]</a><a href="#cite_note-XgnTf-271">[271]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved 18 October 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TorrentFreak&rft.atitle=Newspaper+Attack+on+Bureau+of+Piracy+Backfires&rft.date=2006-07-29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftorrentfreak.com%2Fnewspaper-attack-on-bureau-of-piracy-backfires%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-i1FoL-83"><a href="#cite_ref-i1FoL_83-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFValich2008" class="citation web cs1">Valich, Theo (13 May 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-brief/37403-pirate-bay-opens-a-legal-e-store">"Pirate Bay opens a legal e-store"</a>. TG Daily. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140421064448/http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-brief/37403-pirate-bay-opens-a-legal-e-store">Archived</a> from the original on 21 April 2014. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/pirate-bay-drar-in-miljonbelopp_334410.svd">the original</a> on 2 October 2010. 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Rixstep. 8 July 2006. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080721083213/http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml">Archived</a> from the original on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Rixstep&rft.atitle=TPB+Raking+in+Millions&rft.date=2006-07-08&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Frixstep.com%2F1%2F20060708%2C00.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-0MKZo-86"><a href="#cite_ref-0MKZo_86-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAndersen2009" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Andersen, Ivar (2 March 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fria.nu/artikel/78204">"Rättegången mot The pirate bay: Åklagaren yrkar på fängelse"</a>. Fria Tidningen (in Swedish). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217215948/http://www.fria.nu/artikel/78204">Archived</a> from the original on 17 December 2020. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sydsvenskan.se/sverige/article417153/Forsvaret-verksamheten-ar-laglig.html">the original</a> on 18 March 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Sydsvenskan&rft.atitle=F%C3%B6rsvaret%3A+verksamheten+%C3%A4r+laglig&rft.date=2009-03-03&rft.aulast=Kuprijanko&rft.aufirst=Alexander&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsydsvenskan.se%2Fsverige%2Farticle417153%2FForsvaret-verksamheten-ar-laglig.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsydsvenskan.se%2Fsverige%2Farticle417153%2FForsvaret-verksamheten-ar-laglig.html">English tr.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200506070312/https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsydsvenskan.se%2Fsverige%2Farticle417153%2FForsvaret-verksamheten-ar-laglig.html">Archived</a> 6 May 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>) </li> <li id="cite_note-7L6jv-90"><a href="#cite_ref-7L6jv_90-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sverigesradio.se/Diverse/AppData/Isidor/files/83/6277.pdf">"Dom 17 April 2009 i mål nr B 13301-06"</a> (PDF). SverigesRadio.se (in Swedish). 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Retrieved 13 July 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TPB+Blog&rft.atitle=Updates+%28read+this%29&rft.date=2007-08-05&rft.au=Username%3A+bkp&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthepiratebay.se%2Fblog%2F81&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> Announcement of blog. </li> <li id="cite_note-d2JOb-113"><a href="#cite_ref-d2JOb_113-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-now-has-a-forum/">"The Pirate Bay Now Has a Forum"</a>. <a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a>. 5 August 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140422025955/https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-now-has-a-forum/">Archived</a> from the original on 22 April 2014. 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Retrieved 5 March 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TPB+Blog&rft.atitle=Mac+Widget&rft.date=2007-12-01&rft.au=Username%3A+bkp&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthepiratebay.se%2Fblog%2F92&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-18cWL-117"><a href="#cite_ref-18cWL_117-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUsername:_Smaran2007" class="citation web cs1">Username: Smaran (2 December 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-dashboard-widget-mac-071202/">"The Pirate Bay Dashboard Widget for the Mac"</a>. <a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130512202943/http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-dashboard-widget-mac-071202/">Archived</a> from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TorrentFreak&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Bay+Dashboard+Widget+for+the+Mac&rft.date=2007-12-02&rft.au=Username%3A+Smaran&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftorrentfreak.com%2Fpirate-bay-dashboard-widget-mac-071202%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-bORWd-118"><a href="#cite_ref-bORWd_118-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130730181947/https://forum.suprbay.org/showthread.php?tid=39169">"Slopsbox (announcement)"</a>. Forum.SuprBay.com. The Pirate Bay. 25 December 2007. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forum.suprbay.org/showthread.php?tid=39169">the original</a> on 30 July 2013. 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Retrieved 13 July 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TorrentFreak&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Bay+launches+free+mobile+video+converter&rft.date=2008-12-20&rft.aulast=Van+der+Sar&rft.aufirst=Ernesto&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftorrentfreak.com%2Fthe-pirate-bay-launches-free-mobile-video-converter-081220%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-T3Yex-125"><a href="#cite_ref-T3Yex_125-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091213014209/http://galigio.org/2009/04/13/how-to-share-notes-and-images-using-thepiratebayorg-satellite-websites-pastebay-and-bayimg/">"How to share notes and images using thepiratebay.org satellite websites: PasteBay and bayimg"</a>. Computer Borders. 13 April 2009. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=741185888">the original</a> on 18 August 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=CBC+News&rft.atitle=Prince+of+Sealand&rft.date=2007-01-16&rft.aulast=Stroumboulopoulos&rft.aufirst=George&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fthehour%2Fvideos.html%3Fid%3D741185888&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-dailytech2007-143">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dailytech2007_143-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-dailytech2007_143-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYam2007" class="citation news cs1">Yam, Marcus (22 January 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5800">"Sealand Prince Says No to PirateBay.org"</a>. <a href="/wiki/DailyTech" title="DailyTech">DailyTech</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140422024404/http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5800">Archived</a> from the original on 22 April 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=DailyTech&rft.atitle=Sealand+Prince+Says+No+to+PirateBay.org&rft.date=2007-01-22&rft.aulast=Yam&rft.aufirst=Marcus&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytech.com%2Farticle.aspx%3Fnewsid%3D5800&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-63UUb-144"><a href="#cite_ref-63UUb_144-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLibbenga2007" class="citation web cs1">Libbenga, Jan (12 January 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/pirate_bay_buys_island/">"The Pirate Bay plans to buy Sealand"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Register" title="The Register">The Register</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131203041837/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/pirate_bay_buys_island/">Archived</a> from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Register&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Bay+plans+to+buy+Sealand&rft.date=2007-01-12&rft.aulast=Libbenga&rft.aufirst=Jan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2007%2F01%2F12%2Fpirate_bay_buys_island%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-b3od3-145"><a href="#cite_ref-b3od3_145-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-now-owned-by-the-piratebay-071012/">"Anti-Piracy Organisation Domain IFPI.com Now Owned by The Pirate Bay"</a>. <a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a>. 12 July 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140422030137/https://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-now-owned-by-the-piratebay-071012/">Archived</a> from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TorrentFreak&rft.atitle=Anti-Piracy+Organisation+Domain+IFPI.com+Now+Owned+by+The+Pirate+Bay&rft.date=2007-07-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftorrentfreak.com%2Fifpi-now-owned-by-the-piratebay-071012%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-JjEv7-146"><a href="#cite_ref-JjEv7_146-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMennecke2007" class="citation web cs1">Mennecke, Thomas (30 November 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slyck.com/story1623_The_Pirate_Bay_Loses_IFPIcom_Domain">"The Pirate Bay Loses IFPI.com Domain"</a>. Slyck. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140505001602/http://www.slyck.com/story1623_The_Pirate_Bay_Loses_IFPIcom_Domain">Archived</a> from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Slyck&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Bay+Loses+IFPI.com+Domain&rft.date=2007-11-30&rft.aulast=Mennecke&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slyck.com%2Fstory1623_The_Pirate_Bay_Loses_IFPIcom_Domain&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-piratetoken-147"><a href="#cite_ref-piratetoken_147-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thepiratebay.org/token.html">"The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient bittorrent site"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210627034947/https://thepiratebay.org/token.html">Archived</a> from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Pirate+Bay+-+The+galaxy%27s+most+resilient+bittorrent+site&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthepiratebay.org%2Ftoken.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-piratetokenfirsttransaction-148"><a href="#cite_ref-piratetokenfirsttransaction_148-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bscscan.com/tx/0x1a75059929eabb3fc719ba16b4738eea52b0876c06fd2f59cdaf97c5faaa4b31">"Binance Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details - BscScan"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210627034949/https://bscscan.com/tx/0x1a75059929eabb3fc719ba16b4738eea52b0876c06fd2f59cdaf97c5faaa4b31">Archived</a> from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Binance+Transaction+Hash+%28Txhash%29+Details+-+BscScan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbscscan.com%2Ftx%2F0x1a75059929eabb3fc719ba16b4738eea52b0876c06fd2f59cdaf97c5faaa4b31&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-HxFl5-149"><a href="#cite_ref-HxFl5_149-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNorton2006" class="citation news cs1">Norton, Quinn (16 August 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130316054330/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71543?currentPage=all">"Secrets of The Pirate Bay"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wired_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wired (website)">Wired.com</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71543">the original</a> on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Wired.com&rft.atitle=Secrets+of+The+Pirate+Bay&rft.date=2006-08-16&rft.aulast=Norton&rft.aufirst=Quinn&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fscience%2Fdiscoveries%2Fnews%2F2006%2F08%2F71543&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-QJXLx-150"><a href="#cite_ref-QJXLx_150-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121205141332/http://thepiratebay.se/">"Homepage"</a>. ThePirateBay.org. 1 June 2006. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thepiratebay.se/">the original</a> on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2006. <q>The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the Pirate Bay servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Homepage&rft.pub=ThePirateBay.org&rft.date=2006-06-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthepiratebay.se%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-EfbOj-151"><a href="#cite_ref-EfbOj_151-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation pressrelease cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091003154146/http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_05_31.pdf">"Swedish authorities sink Pirate Bay"</a> (PDF) (Press release). MPAA.org. 31 May 2006. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_05_31.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 3 October 2009. 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Retrieved 28 September 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Piratbyran.blogspot.com&rft.atitle=Piratbyr%C3%A5n+%E2%80%93+tempor%C3%A4r+nyhetsf%C3%B6rmedling&rft.date=2006-05-01&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpiratbyran.blogspot.com%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//piratbyran.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html&hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8">English tr.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130906183602/http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpiratbyran.blogspot.com%2F2006_05_01_archive.html&hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8">Archived</a> 6 September 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>) </li> <li id="cite_note-4LaNq-153"><a href="#cite_ref-4LaNq_153-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBowman2006" class="citation news cs1">Bowman, John (9 June 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130910162506/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/piratebay.html">"The Pirate Bay"</a>. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/piratebay.html">the original</a> on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Bay&rft.date=2006-06-09&rft.aulast=Bowman&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fbackground%2Ftech%2Fpiratebay.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-RegResurfaces-154"><a href="#cite_ref-RegResurfaces_154-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLibbenga2006" class="citation web cs1">Libbenga, Jan (5 June 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/pirate_bay_reemerges/">"Pirate Bay resurfaces, while protesters walk the street"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Register" title="The Register">The Register</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071003060953/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/pirate_bay_reemerges/">Archived</a> from the original on 3 October 2007. 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Retrieved 28 September 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=The+Internet+sure+loves+its+outlaws&rft.date=2007-04-29&rft.aulast=Sarno&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fla-ca-webscout29apr29-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-TELvF-156"><a href="#cite_ref-TELvF_156-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/1/259.html">The Pirate Bays server på Tekniska museet</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161003053135/http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/1/259.html">Archived</a> 3 October 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (in Swedish). <a href="/wiki/Swedish_National_Museum_of_Science_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology">Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology</a>, February 2009. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/1/259_en.html">"English page"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110721045907/http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/1/259_en.html">Archived</a> from the original on 21 July 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=English+page&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tekniskamuseet.se%2F1%2F259_en.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-3Mvb5-157"><a href="#cite_ref-3Mvb5_157-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130407095621/http://www.thelocal.se/14168/20080905/">"Arboga autopsy photos on The Pirate Bay"</a>. 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Retrieved 16 September 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=USA+Today&rft.atitle=4+convicted+in+Pirate+Bay+file-sharing+trial&rft.date=2009-04-17&rft.aulast=Ritter&rft.aufirst=Karl&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Ftech%2Fnews%2F2009-04-17-pirate-bay_N.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-localretrial-172"><a href="#cite_ref-localretrial_172-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/">"Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Local" title="The Local">The Local</a>. 23 April 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130724023631/http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/">Archived</a> from the original on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Local&rft.atitle=Pirate+Bay+lawyer+calls+for+retrial&rft.date=2009-04-23&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelocal.se%2F19028%2F20090423%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-FkiZ2-173"><a href="#cite_ref-FkiZ2_173-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVinthagen_Simpson2009" class="citation news cs1">Vinthagen Simpson, Peter (28 July 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thelocal.se/20954/20090728/">"Pirate Bay facing new suit from US film giants"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Local" title="The Local">The Local</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121008070101/http://www.thelocal.se/20954/20090728/">Archived</a> from the original on 8 October 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Local&rft.atitle=Pirate+Bay+facing+new+suit+from+US+film+giants&rft.date=2009-07-28&rft.aulast=Vinthagen+Simpson&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelocal.se%2F20954%2F20090728%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-7DA07-174"><a href="#cite_ref-7DA07_174-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/record-companies-take-aim-at-pirate-bay-links-1688058.html">"Record companies take aim at Pirate Bay links"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a>. London. 20 May 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140421081914/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/record-companies-take-aim-at-pirate-bay-links-1688058.html">Archived</a> from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=Record+companies+take+aim+at+Pirate+Bay+links&rft.date=2009-05-20&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Flife-style%2Fgadgets-and-tech%2Fnews%2Frecord-companies-take-aim-at-pirate-bay-links-1688058.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-lgOM6-175"><a href="#cite_ref-lgOM6_175-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sr.se/Diverse/AppData/Isidor/files/1646/6881.pdf">Ruling in case number T 7540-09 and T 11712-09</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181120021751/https://sverigesradio.se/Diverse/AppData/Isidor/files/1646/6881.pdf">Archived</a> 20 November 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>(PDF). (Swedish) Stockholm district court. 21 August 2009. </li> <li id="cite_note-3jCPF-176"><a href="#cite_ref-3jCPF_176-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBenholm2009" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Benholm, Sofia (24 August 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121009111854/http://www.svt.se/2.27170/1.1664840/the_pirate_bay_ar_borta">"The Pirate Bay är borta från nätet"</a>. SvT.se (in Swedish). <a href="/wiki/Sveriges_Television" title="Sveriges Television">Sveriges Television</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://svt.se/2.27170/1.1664840/the_pirate_bay_ar_borta">the original</a> on 9 October 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=SvT.se&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Bay+%C3%A4r+borta+fr%C3%A5n+n%C3%A4tet&rft.date=2009-08-24&rft.aulast=Benholm&rft.aufirst=Sofia&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsvt.se%2F2.27170%2F1.1664840%2Fthe_pirate_bay_ar_borta&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Swvq2-177"><a href="#cite_ref-Swvq2_177-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoldberg2009" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Goldberg, Daniel (24 August 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.242544/sa-tanker-tingsratten">"Så tänker tingsrätten"</a>. 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SR.se (in Swedish). <a href="/wiki/Sveriges_Radio_P3" title="Sveriges Radio P3">Sveriges Radio P3</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100217130331/http://www.sr.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1646&artikel=3097558">Archived</a> from the original on 17 February 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=SR.se&rft.atitle=TPB-operat%C3%B6r+%C3%B6verklagar&rft.date=2009-09-14&rft.aulast=Hielle&rft.aufirst=Lars-Peter&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sr.se%2Fsida%2Fartikel.aspx%3FProgramId%3D1646%26Artikel%3D3097558&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-dsph9-181"><a href="#cite_ref-dsph9_181-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRicknäs2009" class="citation news cs1">Ricknäs, Mikael (18 September 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=CD789311-1A64-67EA-E4EEA38573786B23">"The Pirate Bay plugs defense fund for former ISP"</a>. News.IDG.no. <a href="/wiki/International_Data_Group" title="International Data Group">International Data Group</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140421082008/http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=CD789311-1A64-67EA-E4EEA38573786B23">Archived</a> from the original on 21 April 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=News.IDG.no&rft.atitle=The+Pirate+Bay+plugs+defense+fund+for+former+ISP&rft.date=2009-09-18&rft.aulast=Rickn%C3%A4s&rft.aufirst=Mikael&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.idg.no%2Fcw%2Fart.cfm%3Fid%3DCD789311-1A64-67EA-E4EEA38573786B23&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-uh6tN-182"><a href="#cite_ref-uh6tN_182-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHolmberg2009" class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Holmberg, Kalle (28 August 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/falkvinge-jo-anmaler-tingsratten-efter-nedslackningen-av-pirate-bay-1.941080">"Falkvinge JO-anmäler tingsrätten efter nedsläckningen av Pirate Bay"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Dagens_Nyheter" title="Dagens Nyheter">Dagens Nyheter</a> (in Swedish). <a href="/wiki/Bonnier_AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Bonnier AB">Bonnier AB</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091124065113/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/falkvinge-jo-anmaler-tingsratten-efter-nedslackningen-av-pirate-bay-1.941080">Archived</a> from the original on 24 November 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Dagens+Nyheter&rft.atitle=Falkvinge+JO-anm%C3%A4ler+tingsr%C3%A4tten+efter+nedsl%C3%A4ckningen+av+Pirate+Bay&rft.date=2009-08-28&rft.aulast=Holmberg&rft.aufirst=Kalle&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fkultur-noje%2Fnyheter%2Ffalkvinge-jo-anmaler-tingsratten-efter-nedslackningen-av-pirate-bay-1.941080&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-iP1lh-183"><a href="#cite_ref-iP1lh_183-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFalkvinge2009" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Falkvinge, Rick (27 August 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120328092458/http://rickfalkvinge.se/files/2009/08/jo-anmalan-stockholms-tingsratt-av-rick-falkvinge.pdf">"Min JO-anmälan av Stockholms Tingsrätt"</a> (PDF). RickFalkvinge.se (in Swedish). 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Retrieved 14 March 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Sveriges+Radio&rft.atitle=Pirate+Party+takes+over+the+Pirate+Bay&rft.date=2010-05-18&rft.aulast=Farzin&rft.aufirst=Ramin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigesradio.se%2Fartikel%2F3705722&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/translate?u=https%3A//sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx%3Fprogramid%3D1646%26artikel%3D3705413&hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8">English tr.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150514032956/https://translate.google.com/translate?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsverigesradio.se%2Fsida%2Fartikel.aspx%3Fprogramid%3D1646&artikel=3705413&hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8">Archived</a> 14 May 2015 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cfrnm-218"><a href="#cite_ref-Cfrnm_218-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnderson2010" class="citation web cs1">Anderson, Nate (18 May 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/05/pirate-party-hosting-pirate-bay-in-pro-p2p-political-gesture/">"Pirate Party hosting Pirate Bay in pro-P2P political gesture"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120423164104/http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/pirate-party-hosting-pirate-bay-in-pro-p2p-political-gesture.ars">Archived</a> from the original on 23 April 2012. 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SVT.se (in Swedish). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://svt.se/2.27170/1.2005911/det_kommer_bli_valdigt_svart_att_rora_the_pirate_bay_nu">the original</a> on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=SVT.se&rft.atitle=Det+kommer+bli+v%C3%A4ldigt+sv%C3%A5rt+att+r%C3%B6ra+The+Pirate+Bay+nu&rft.date=2010-05-18&rft.aulast=Benholm&rft.aufirst=Sofia&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsvt.se%2F2.27170%2F1.2005911%2Fdet_kommer_bli_valdigt_svart_att_rora_the_pirate_bay_nu&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988"> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//svt.se/2.27170/1.2005911/det_kommer_bli_valdigt_svart_att_rora_the_pirate_bay_nu&hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=ISO-8859-1">English tr.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140422030143/https://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsvt.se%2F2.27170%2F1.2005911%2Fdet_kommer_bli_valdigt_svart_att_rora_the_pirate_bay_nu&hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=ISO-8859-1">Archived</a> 22 April 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>). </li> <li id="cite_note-F5NQ4-220"><a href="#cite_ref-F5NQ4_220-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-hacked-users-exposed-100708/">"The Pirate Bay Hacked, Users Exposed"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140422030618/https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-hacked-users-exposed-100708/">Archived</a> from the original on 22 April 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Pirate+Bay+Hacked%2C+Users+Exposed&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftorrentfreak.com%2Fthe-pirate-bay-hacked-users-exposed-100708%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988">. <a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a>. 8 July 2010. </li> <li id="cite_note-IbBRa-221"><a href="#cite_ref-IbBRa_221-0">^</a> Mick, Jason (8 July 2010). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailytech.com/Pirate+Bay+Hacked+4+Million+User+Records+Looted+Site+Is+Down/article18978c.htm">"Pirate Bay Hacked, 4 Million User Records Looted, Site Is Down"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140422024048/http://www.dailytech.com/Pirate%2BBay%2BHacked%2B4%2BMillion%2BUser%2BRecords%2BLooted%2BSite%2BIs%2BDown/article18978c.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 22 April 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Pirate+Bay+Hacked%2C+4+Million+User+Records+Looted%2C+Site+Is+Down&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytech.com%2FPirate%2BBay%2BHacked%2B4%2BMillion%2BUser%2BRecords%2BLooted%2BSite%2BIs%2BDown%2Farticle18978c.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Pirate+Bay" class="Z3988">. 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_BitTorrent_terms" title="Glossary of BitTorrent terms">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broadcatching" title="Broadcatching">Broadcatching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Distributed_hash_table" title="Distributed hash table">Distributed hash tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitTorrent_(software)#BitTorrent_DNA" title="BitTorrent (software)">DNA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I2P#File_Sharing" title="I2P">I2P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitTorrent_index" class="mw-redirect" title="BitTorrent index">index</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_Peer_Discovery" title="Local Peer Discovery">Local Peer Discovery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peer_exchange" title="Peer exchange">Peer exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption" title="BitTorrent protocol encryption">Protocol encryption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super-seeding" title="Super-seeding">Super-seeding</a></li> <li><a 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/BitTorrent_(software)" title="BitTorrent (software)">BitTorrent</a> (original client)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitComet" title="BitComet">BitComet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitLord" title="BitLord">BitLord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deluge_(software)" title="Deluge (software)">Deluge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Download_Manager" title="Free Download Manager">Free Download Manager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FlashGet" title="FlashGet">FlashGet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FrostWire" title="FrostWire">FrostWire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GetRight" title="GetRight">GetRight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Go!Zilla" title="Go!Zilla">Go!Zilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTorrent" title="KTorrent">KTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libtorrent" title="Libtorrent">libtorrent</a> (library)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LimeWire" title="LimeWire">LimeWire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent" title="ΜTorrent">µTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miro_(video_software)" title="Miro (video software)">Miro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLDonkey" title="MLDonkey">MLDonkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QBittorrent" title="QBittorrent">qBittorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RTorrent" title="RTorrent">rTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shareaza" title="Shareaza">Shareaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tixati" title="Tixati">Tixati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transmission_(BitTorrent_client)" title="Transmission (BitTorrent client)">Transmission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribler" title="Tribler">Tribler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vuze" title="Vuze">Vuze</a> (formerly Azureus)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WebTorrent_Desktop" class="mw-redirect" title="WebTorrent Desktop">WebTorrent Desktop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xunlei" title="Xunlei">Xunlei</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tracker software (<a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_tracker_software" title="Comparison of BitTorrent tracker software">comparison</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OpenBitTorrent" title="OpenBitTorrent">OpenBitTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opentracker" title="Opentracker">opentracker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PeerTracker" title="PeerTracker">PeerTracker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Search engines (<a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites" title="Comparison of BitTorrent sites">comparison</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1337x" title="1337x">1337x</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BTDigg" title="BTDigg">BTDigg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demonoid" title="Demonoid">Demonoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etree" title="Etree">etree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyaa_Torrents" title="Nyaa 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title="IsoHunt">isoHunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KickassTorrents" title="KickassTorrents">KickassTorrents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LokiTorrent" title="LokiTorrent">LokiTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mininova" title="Mininova">Mininova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace" title="Oink's Pink Palace">Oink's Pink Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RARBG" title="RARBG">RARBG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suprnova.org" title="Suprnova.org">Suprnova.org</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T411" title="T411">t411</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrent_Project" title="Torrent Project">Torrent Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TorrentSpy" title="TorrentSpy">TorrentSpy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrentz" title="Torrentz">Torrentz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/What.CD" title="What.CD">What.CD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YIFY" title="YIFY">YIFY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTorrent" title="YouTorrent">YouTorrent</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AXXo" title="AXXo">aXXo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitTorrent_Open_Source_License" title="BitTorrent Open Source License">BitTorrent Open Source License</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_BitTorrent_terms" title="Glossary of BitTorrent terms">Glossary of BitTorrent terms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popcorn_Time" title="Popcorn Time">Popcorn Time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slyck.com" title="Slyck.com">Slyck.com</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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Asia">Radio Free Asia</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indymedia" title="Indymedia">Independent Media Center</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Intercept" title="The Intercept">The Intercept</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ProPublica" title="ProPublica">ProPublica</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voice_of_America" title="Voice of America">Voice of America</a>*</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/File_system" title="File system">File storage</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peer-to-peer" title="Peer-to-peer">peer-to-peer</a> <a href="/wiki/File_sharing" title="File sharing">file sharing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BTDigg" title="BTDigg">BTDigg</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Hosting" title="Freedom Hosting">Freedom Hosting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Haven_Project" title="Free Haven Project">Free Haven Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KickassTorrents" title="KickassTorrents">KickassTorrents</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Pirate Bay</a>*</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mailbox_provider" title="Mailbox provider">Email</a> and <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bitmessage" title="Bitmessage">Bitmessage.ch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Briar_(software)" title="Briar (software)">Briar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keybase" title="Keybase">Keybase</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proton_Mail" title="Proton Mail">Proton Mail</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riseup" title="Riseup">Riseup</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tor_Mail" title="Tor Mail">Tor Mail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TorChat" title="TorChat">TorChat</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">Social media</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_forum" title="Internet forum">forums</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/8chan" title="8chan">8chan</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark0de" title="Dark0de">Dark0de</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dread_(forum)" title="Dread (forum)">Dread</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Facebook_onion_address" title="Facebook onion address"> Facebook</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/HackBB" title="HackBB">HackBB</a></li> <li><a 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agora_(online_marketplace)" title="Agora (online marketplace)">Agora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AlphaBay" title="AlphaBay">AlphaBay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantis_(market)" title="Atlantis (market)">Atlantis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archetyp_Market" title="Archetyp Market">Archetyp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Market_Reloaded" title="Black Market Reloaded">Black Market Reloaded</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dream_Market" title="Dream Market">Dream Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution_(marketplace)" title="Evolution (marketplace)">Evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Farmer%27s_Market" title="The Farmer's Market">The Farmer's Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hansa_(market)" title="Hansa (market)">Hansa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydra_Market" title="Hydra Market">Hydra Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheep_Marketplace" title="Sheep Marketplace">Sheep Marketplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)" title="Silk Road (marketplace)">Silk Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TheRealDeal" title="TheRealDeal">TheRealDeal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Anonymous_Marketplace" title="Russian Anonymous Marketplace">Russian Anonymous Marketplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tor_Carding_Forum" title="Tor Carding Forum">Tor Carding Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utopia_(marketplace)" title="Utopia (marketplace)">Utopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_House_Market" title="White House Market">White House Market</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Archive" title="Archive">Document archives</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">Archive.today</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doxbin_(darknet)" title="Doxbin (darknet)">Doxbin (darknet)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet 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du Net">La Quadrature du Net</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Privacy_International" title="Privacy International">Privacy International</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecomix" title="Telecomix">Telecomix</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating systems</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DivestOS" title="DivestOS">DivestOS</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qubes_OS" title="Qubes OS">Qubes OS</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)" title="Tails (operating system)">Tails</a>*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whonix" title="Whonix">Whonix</a>*</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">Government</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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