Pirate Bay



The Pirate Bay (abbreviation - TPB; "Pirate Bay") is the world's largest BitTorrent indexer and directory for searching .torrent files.

ThePirateBay.org was in 122nd place by the number of visits (as of May 2, 2018) in the Alexa ranking. The Pirate Bay was launched at the initiative of the Swedish organization Piratbyrån (Swedish “Pirate Bureau”) in November 2003, but since the beginning of October 2004 has existed as a separate organization. Currently, site support is provided by Gottfried Svartholm, Frederick Nei (Fredrik Neij, “TiAMO”) and Peter Sunde (“brokep”).

Trial
In February 2009, the trial of the founders of The Pirate Bay began. On April 17, 2009, it ended with the plaintiffs ’victory - the four creators of the project were sentenced to a year in prison and fined US $ 3.7 million. However, the lawyers of the convicted insist on the innocence of their clients and the bias of the judge and intend to appeal the court decision.

On April 27, 2009, in the updated RIPE database, The Pirate Bay IP addresses are assigned to law firms representing the interests of the entertainment industry [10]. In early May 2009, the Italian Federation of the Music Industry (FIMI), based on a decision of the Swedish court, decided to initiate a trial of the founders of the tracker in Italy.

In May 2010, the Hamburg District Court examined the lawsuit of one of the companies affiliated with the Filmmakers Association (MPAA) against the Pirate Bay Internet resource and the CyberBunker company that provided it with hosting services. As a result of the consideration of the case, the court prohibited the CyberBunker provider from hosting the torrent tracker “The Pirate Bay”. If the court’s decision is not complied with, the provider will be fined € 250 thousand for each case of copyright infringement, and the director of CyberBunker, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, will run the risk of going to jail for up to two years. Thus, for the first time in court, the hoster's liability for copyright infringement was recognized by one of its resources.

Facts
In 2007, Nine Inch Nails posted links to download songs from their new album via The Pirate Bay on the band’s official website, but this did not stop the album from taking second place on the Billboard list.

In March 2012, representatives of The Pirate Bay announced the possibility of placing part of the service equipment on a GPS unmanned aerial vehicle launched into neutral waters with the aim of hosting a project outside the jurisdiction of any state.

In 2017, Monero cryptocurrency mining was integrated into the code of the official website, which increased the load on the visitors' processors. Administrators explain this step by the search for ways to monetize, express their hope that in the future this way of generating income will be able to replace standard advertising on the site.