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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]
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.
In February 2020, the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers, with support from IFPI, launched legal action for local ISPs to block The Pirate Bay along with local torrent website Zamunda. On 31 May 2023, three ISPs were ordered to block the two sites within 6 months.
Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.
According to TorrentFreak, RARBG specialized in English-language "high quality video releases", but lists other content as well, including "games, software and music." [1] The website has been described in 2019 as a "notorious market" by the US trade representative. [4] In 2020, the website was listed as a target of Bulgarian law enforcement. [5]
1337x is an online website that provides a directory of torrent files and magnet links used for peer-to-peer file sharing through the BitTorrent protocol. [1] According to the TorrentFreak news blog, 1337x is the second-most popular torrent website as of 2024. [2]
This is a categorized list of notable onion services (formerly, hidden services) [1] accessible through the Tor anonymity network. Defunct services and those accessed by deprecated V2 addresses are marked.
On 1 March 2022, the Asia Video Industry Association's Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) announced that it had obtained a court order from the Singapore High Court for the blocking of 30 illegal streaming sites and nearly 150 domain names associated with those sites.