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 ...

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.

So this is how it may end for the Pirate Bay: two of its founders imprisoned, its offices reportedly raided, its Web site bounced from the Internet. The file-sharing site, which shot into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Pirate Bay will live on, under a different name and different style of execution but with the same mission. Related Lorde Lands First ARIA Top 10 Since 2017 With 'What Was That' ...

When The Pirate Bay goes down, a significant chunk of the Internet's piracy infrastructure goes down with it. Popular torrent hub The Pirate Bay suffered an extended outage on Monday and Tuesday ...

The six-part TV drama based on the story of The Pirate Bay, which was first reported in 2021, is going into production this fall, according to Variety. It's being produced by B-Reel Films ...

The Pirate Bay "spectrial" has ended in a guilty verdict, prison sentences for the defendants, and a shared 30 million kronor ($3.5 million) fine. According to the Swedish district court ...