This is one of the largest and mostly used websites in file sharing. It has many of the software and applications that are currently crucial in running computers plus others digital products like music albums and videos.
It calls its self ‘The World's most resilient bit torrent site’ The Pirates Bay or abbreviated as TPB, is a Swedish website that hosts and indexes torrent. Alexa ranks TPB number 105 among the most popular website's in the current world. Founded in November 2003 under Swedish Anti-copyright organization Pirate Bryan, TPB runs now on its own and depends on the adverts to finance its operation. Recent reviews revealed that, it receives more than US$150,000 per year from adverts only. The Pirate Bay is organized in a way that, those who will want to download torrents that they current have no access to can still find them with other users by searching the pirate bay.
TPB can be said to be a library of both legally available and illegal data online. it has groups like; Audio, Video, Applications, Games, Other and Porn ( that is only visible to registered users only). To register at TPB, one will need a valid email address to confirm his or her membership with TPB, and to even be getting the latest updates from the TPB crew. A browser feature is availed to enable users to browse through the available contents. To be more precise, each group is further subdivided into sub-categories. The TPB website from page features a Pirate ship with the 80s anti-copy right embedment ' Home Taping is Killing Music'.
The Pirates Bay has rose with so many controversies and cases of which many claim that, it was making available copy right protected data available for downloading on its website, with most recent case trial seen the four its operators convicted to one year imprisonment, on17th April 2009, however appeals are under way.
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