🎂 The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary [TorrentFreak]
🎂 The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary [TorrentFreak]
The Pirate Bay celebrates its 20th anniversary today. The site had many setbacks over the years but remains online today.
The Pirate Bay celebrates its 20th anniversary today. Founded in 2003 by a collective of hackers and activists, the small Swedish BitTorrent tracker grew to become a global icon for online piracy. The rebellious torrent site has a turbulent history and clashed with law enforcement authorities on multiple occasions. Despite these setbacks, it remains online today.
Anyone from Sweden here? How is the landscape nowadays? Is piracy still a big thing?
Swede here. I would say that piracy had it's peak before the raid in 2006 and further harmed by copyswede and thier lobbying for an extra tax on anything that has some form of storage media, can't remember what year that tax came into effect. I might be wrong but that's my experience.
Isn't the current TPB distinct from the original; made to look the same, but run by different people?
Noone can take this site down its great