The site owners claim to have about 5 million active users. The number of 'pirates' on the pirate bay has grown exponentially since its inception and the subsequent raid by authorities in 2006. 'Pirates' are the people who use The Pirate Bay, including the registered users who share magnet links and torrent files. If you are searching for the most popular content on the site, you simply click on the Top 100 Button and if you want the recently uploaded content, you click on the Recent Button. Files on this website come in various forms, including audio, video, applications, and games. In 2009, the three Swedes (Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij) who created this website as a platform for sharing knowledge were found guilty of enabling copyright infringement and were consequently sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay a fine.ĭownloading files from the pirate bay is quite simple since its database is carefully categorized to enable visitors to find their preferred files quickly.

Usually abbreviated as TPB, The Pirate Bay is a popular peer-to-peer site offering millions of files, commonly referred to as torrents, that can be downloaded for free using BitTorrent protocol.

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