

On December 9th, The Pirate Bay abruptly went offline worldwide. Within two months, the video had received over 1.77 million views and 7,600 comments on YouTube.

On February 8th, 2013, director Simon Klose released a documentary titled "The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard," which chronicled the early history of the website and its founders (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post received over 3,700 up votes and 690 comments. On April 11th, The Register published an article about the domain problems, which was subsequently posted to the /r/worldnews subreddit the same day. gl domain announced they would block the site for promoting illegal activity.

In less than 48 hours, the telecommunications company controlling the. gl domain after they were warned that Swedish authorities were planning to seize their. In April of 2013, TPB changed to a Greenland-based. In January of 2012, the category Physibles was added to TPB, which contained files for objects that could be fabricated using a 3D printer.

On June 23rd, 2010, Piratbyrån disbanded following the death of Ibi Kopimi Botani, creator of the Kopimi copyright alternative concept. In January of 2007, TPB attempted to purchase the micronation of Sealand in a legal maneuver to protect itself from prosecution but was denied by the Sealand government. In May of that year, Swedish reality star Petter Nilsson donated US $4,656 to the torrent site, which was used to buy new servers. In 2006, the donate page was removed and the site began running advertisements on the search results page. On April 1st, 2005, TPB posted an April Fool's Day prank claiming they had been raided by the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau. In 2004, TPB began accepting donations on the website in order to fund its operations. On September 15th, 2003, Piratbyrån members Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij launched the torrent sharing site The Pirate Bay. The Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån ("The Pirate Bureau") was established on August 1st, 2003, which aimed to support file sharing on the Internet in opposition to the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau. The site has often been criticized by companies in the entertainment media industry for facilitating Internet piracy and copyright infringement. The Pirate Bay (TPB) is a torrent hosting website where users can share files using the BitTorrent protocol. Piracy, copyright, torrent, file sharing, peer to peer, magnet links, bootlegs, bootleg movies, online movies, online tv shows, copyright infringement, game of bay, pirate bay, file sharing website, illegal torrent sites, peter sundeĮncyclopedia Dramatica Facebook Reddit Twitter Urban Dictionary Wikipedia About Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde
