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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 Pirate Bay, the controversial BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden, has become ensnared in a grisly, high-profile scandal involving the online circulation of autopsy pictures of two murdered ...

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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 ...