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The tool is responsible for around 372 mirror sites. [238] Since 17 December 2014, The Pirate Bay's Facebook page has been unavailable. [233] [239] On 22 December 2014, a website was resumed at the domain thepiratebay.se, showing a flip clock with the length of time in days and hours that the site had been offline, and a waving pirate flag. [240]
The Pirate Bay was blocked in the United Arab Emirates from September 2013. [107] The ban has since been lifted except for the porn section. [citation needed] A thepiratebay.ae mirror was recently created to circumvent blockade. [108]
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
The purpose of mirrors is to reduce network traffic, improve access speed, ensure availability of the original site for technical [2] or political reasons, [3] or provide a real-time backup of the original site. [4] [5] [6] Mirror sites are particularly important in developing countries, where internet access may be slower or less reliable. [7]
Anna's Archive was created by members of the Pirate Library Mirror project, [1] [8] an anonymous effort to mirror shadow libraries that began in direct response to U.S. law enforcement efforts to close down Z-Library in 2022. [9] It initially displayed results from Library Genesis and Z-Library. [1] [3] [8]
The Pirate Bay — a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent (.torrent) files, and provides Tor anonymity network file storage and peer-to-peer file sharing services. Pages in category "The Pirate Bay"
It was founded in 2008 and by November 2014, KAT became the most visited BitTorrent directory in the world, overtaking The Pirate Bay, according to the site's Alexa ranking. [1] KAT went offline on 20 July 2016 when the domain was seized by the U.S. government. The site's proxy servers were shut down by its staff at the same time. [2]
PirateBrowser was released on 10 August 2013 on the tenth anniversary of The Pirate Bay. [2] It is a bundle of Firefox Portable 23, the FoxyProxy addon for Firefox, and the Vidalia Tor client with some proxy configurations to speed up page loading.