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Initially, The Pirate Bay's four Linux servers ran a custom web server called Hypercube. An old version is open-source. [55] On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2 HTTP requests per millisecond on each of the four web servers, [56] as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the front-end of the website.
October 10 – An appeal by The Pirate Bay's lawyers succeeds in lifting the Italian ban. October 29 – Morpheus website taken down; client is no longer available. November 27 – A Danish court rules that ISPs must block access to the website The Pirate Bay. [106] [107] December 16 – ShareReactor is reopened by The Pirate Bay. [108]
A directory allows users to browse the content available on a website based on various categories. A directory is also a site where users can find other websites. Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay.
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.
The anti-piracy group went back to court, this time demanding the re-blocking of proxies and mirrors, which it argued copied the original Pirate Bay and as such extended the illegal distribution ...
He remained The Pirate Bay's spokesperson until late 2009 (three years after the ownership of the site transferred to Reservella). In August 2011, Sunde and fellow Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij launched file-sharing site BayFiles, that aimed to legally share. [8] Sunde is vegan [9] and speaks Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, English and German.
Mirror sites are often located in a different geographic region than the original, or upstream site. 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.
In 2012, to minimize legal exposure and save computer resources, The Pirate Bay entirely switched to providing plaintext magnet links instead of traditional torrent files. [19] As the most popular and well-known facilitator of copyright infringement, The Pirate Bay continues to shift between different hosting facilities and domain registrars in ...