Pirate Bay may not be the only target. According to TorrentFreak, other sites related to file sharing such as EZTV, Zoink, and Torrage went down today as well, though it's not yet known if they ...

How hacktivist-founded website evaded authorities, charmed users. Gottfrid Svartholm Varg and Peter Sundin from The Pirate Bay meet the press in Stockhol, Feb. 15, 2009. A Stockholm court found on ...

Sunde and his fellow founders were eventually jailed for assisting in the unauthorised distribution of copyrighted content. He’s been speaking to Maddy Savage about The Pirate Bay’s battle with ...

Instead of hosting the copyrighted material itself, The Pirate Bay maintained a database of the tracker files needed for users to download the "torrents" -- not the actual copyrighted content.

Learn More Update on December 15: The Pirate Bay has released its first official statement. The team hasn’t decided yet if the site is coming back. Update: Readers are reporting that for popular ...

Ah, the Internet cafe; home to yuppies, flavored lattes, and The Pirate Bay? If you haven’t heard, Swedish Internet cafe operator, Global Gaming Factory X, today bought The Pirate Bay for $7.8 ...

But the most famous nexus for digital piracy sailed through the week unscathed. It's called The Pirate Bay, and it's the poster child for the kinds of "rogue" overseas sites Congress took aim at ...

Notorious torrent tracker website The Pirate Bay went offline in early December when its server facility near Stockholm, Sweden was raided by local authorities. This event appeared to be a sad end ...

The once Swedish-based BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay claims the problems many visitors have noticed on the resurrected piracy hub are the result of a glut of new users, rather than recent ...

When lawyer Ernst-Jan Louwers showed up in a Dutch court this week to defend the three Pirate Bay administrators, he swore that none of the three men in fact owned the site, having got rid of it ...

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