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The Pirate Bay
Drawing of a 3-masted sailing ship with 'Home Taping Is Killing Music' cassette & crossbones
Type of site
 Torrent index, magnet links provider
Available in 35 languages available, primarily English and Swedish
Created by
  • Gottfrid Svartholm
  • Fredrik Neij
  • Peter Sunde
Revenue Advertisements, donations, merchandise, cryptocurrency mining
Alexa rank Increase 202 (May 2019)
Registration Optional, free
Launched 15 September 2003; 20 years ago (2003-09-15)
Current status Online
Written in HTML, JavaScript and PHP

The Pirate Bay (shortname:TPB) is a Swedish website that indexes Bit Torrent files. It was created by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. The Pirate Bay is ranked as the 85th most popular website by Alexa. The Pirate Bay had to face many lawsuits and a raid in relation to copyright violations. It was shut down on December 9, 2014 by Swedish police, and came back online on January 31, 2015. Also, it may risk your PC to get infected by a virus.

Images for kids

  • Political cartoon from 2009: an entertainment industry man, reminiscing about the dangers radio, TV, home taping, and VCRs posed to existing industries, declares the new threat: the Internet. He says a family watching uploaded content, with copyrighted material, is stealing, and that "copyrights are worth more than your human rights".

    Political cartoon criticising the entertainment industry on the main page of TPB

  • A 2009 cartoon of a seated faceless figure in a suit, with a brick of money, announcing a contest to prank Scientology, make videos and win $$$

    A contest by Project Chanology advertised at The Pirate Bay in December 2009

  • Rättegången mot TPB - 2009-02-16 (gabbe)

    Protestors showing support for The Pirate Bay on the first day of the trial

  • The Hydra Bay logo

    The Hydra Bay logo; occasionally displayed on the official website

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: The Pirate Bay para niños

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