Contents.Features. sites may operate a. Operating a tracker should not be confused with hosting content. A directory allows users to browse the content available on a website based on various categories.

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A directory is also a site where users can find other websites. BitTorrent sites may either focus on certain content — such as that focuses on — or may have no particular focus, like. Some sites specialize as of other BitTorrent sites.

Most private trackers do not make the news and therefore are not listed in this comparison. As noted by lifehacker sites like corrupt-net.org rank trackers by 'pre time'.Google downranking In October 2014, results were affected by anti-piracy algorithms, which includes downranking popular BitTorrent sites in search results. The algorithm works when Google users search for movie, music or software titles in combination with terms such as 'download,' 'watch' and 'torrent'. Popular BitTorrent sites are demoted in the list; the traffic reduction depends on the site, but some sites experienced nearly a 50% reduction in visitors. Site comparison The following table compares the features of some of the most popular BitTorrent websites; it is not comprehensive with regard to listing all of the popular BitTorrent trackers, especially private trackers.

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.Advertisements, donations, merchandise, cryptocurrency miningWebsiterank187 (June 2019 )RegistrationOptional, freeLaunched15 September 2003; 16 years ago ( 2003-09-15)Current statusOnlineWritten in, andPart of onTechnologies.Video sharing sites.BitTorrent sites.Academic/scholarly.File sharing networks.P2P clients.Streaming programs.Anonymous file sharing.Development and societal aspects.By country or region.Comparisons.The Pirate Bay (sometimes abbreviated to TPB) is an of of entertainment media and software. Founded in 2003 by Swedish, The Pirate Bay allows visitors to search, download, and contribute and torrent files, which facilitate (P2P) among users of the protocol.The Pirate Bay has sparked controversies and discussion about, and and has become a platform for political initiatives against established laws and a central figure in an movement. The website faced several shutdowns and domain seizures, switching to a series of new web addresses to continue operating.In April 2009, the website's founders (, and ) were found guilty in the in Sweden for assisting in and were sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine. In some countries, (ISPs) have been ordered to block access to the website. Subsequently, have been providing access to it.

Founders Svartholm, Neij, and Sunde were all released by 2015 after having served shortened sentences. – on the homepage 31 January 2008The team behind The Pirate Bay has worked on several websites and software projects of varying degrees of permanence. In 2007, an image hosting website similar to went online in June. Political cartoon criticising the entertainment industry on the main page of TPBIn 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.

In December, The Pirate Bay resurrected as a combined and BitTorrent site. The same month, the Vio mobile video converter was released, designed to convert video files for playback on mobile devices such as, many and devices.In 2009, Pastebay, a note sharing service similar to, was made available to the public as of 23 March. The Video Bay video streaming/sharing site was announced in June to be 'The YouTube Killer', with content viewable in -capable browsers. The site was in an 'Extreme Beta' phase; a message on the homepage instructed the user 'don't expect anything to work at all'. The Video Bay was never completed and As of 28 April 2013, The Video Bay is inaccessible. A contest by advertised at The Pirate Bay in December 2009On 18 April 2011, Pirate Bay temporarily changed its name to 'Research Bay', collaborating with P2P researchers of the in a large poll of P2P users. The researchers published their results online on 'The Survey Bay', as a public Creative Commons project in 2013.

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. Brazilian novelist was promoted, offering a collection of his books for free download. By November, 10,000 artists were reported to have signed up.

TPB preserves a dated collection of exhibited logos. On 2 December 2012, some ISPs in the UK such as, and started blocking The Promo Bay but stopped a few days later when the reversed its position. PurchasesIn January 2007, when the micronation of 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 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.The P2P news blog TorrentFreak reported on 12 October 2007 that the Internet domain ifpi.com, which previously belonged to the, an 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' However, the IFPI filed a complaint with the shortly thereafter, which subsequently ordered The Pirate Bay to return the domain name to the IFPI. Incidents May 2006 raid. The Hydra Bay logo; occasionally displayed on the official websiteOn 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. The Pirate Bay was one of many peer-to-peer and torrent-related websites and apps that went down. One member of the crew was arrested.

TorrentFreak reported that most reported a 5–10% increase in traffic from the displaced users, though the shutdown had little effect on overall piracy levels. In retaliation to the raid, a group of hackers claiming to be part of allegedly leaked email log-in details of Swedish government officials. The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter 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, criticising in particular the increased use of advertisements. Has since copied much of the original TPB database and made it accessible through, a searchable index of old Pirate Bay torrents. IsoHunt also released a tool called, to allow users to deploy their own version of the Pirate Bay website. The tool is responsible for around 372 mirror sites.

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Since 17 December 2014, The Pirate Bay's Facebook page has been unavailable. On 22 December 2014, a website was resumed at the domain thepiratebay.se, showing a with the length of time in days and hours that the site had been offline, and a waving pirate flag.

From this day TPB was hosted for a period in, on Trabia Network (Moldo-German company) servers. The Pirate Bay then began using the services of, a company which offers services. On 1 January 2015, the website presented a countdown to 1 February 2015. The website returned with a prominent logo displayed at the domain thepiratebay.se on 31 January 2015. 2018 downtimeBeginning in October 2018, the Pirate Bay website started to be inaccessible in some locations around the world, showing. 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 or problem, but the exact cause has not been determined. The site's domain and remained unaffected. Censorship and controversies. Main article:The Pirate Bay's website has been in some countries, despite the relative ease by which such in most countries. While the to the Pirate Bay itself has been blocked in these countries, numerous emerged to make the website available at different URLs, routing traffic around the block.According to Google chairman, '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'. SwedenOn 13 February 2017, Sweden's Patent and Market Court of Appeal decided that the broadband provider 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. Censorship by corporations FacebookAfter The Pirate Bay introduced a feature in March 2009 to easily share links to torrents on the site Facebook, 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. Lawyers commented that Facebook might be working against the US 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. MicrosoftIn March 2012, Microsoft blocked messages if they contain 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 in an emailed statement. In mediaThe Pirate Bay is featured in (2006), a documentary series about society and filesharing, produced by; in the Danish Documentary, which explores the issues surrounding file; and the documentary.

The Pirate Bay has been a topic on the US-syndicated radio show., former member of the Swedish pop music group, criticised copyright infringing activities of The Pirate Bay supporters as 'lazy and mean'. In contrast, Brazilian best-selling author has embraced free sharing online.

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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'.