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Following the raid, the number of Pirate Bay users grew from 1 million to 2.7 million. The number of peers grew almost 5 times, from 2.5 million to 12 million. [17] It has been reported that the Pirate Bay claims more than 5 million active users. Internet traffic ranker Alexa.com ranks Pirate Bay as the 73rd most popular website in the world. [16]
On 2 October 2009, The Pirate Bay's hosting services moved to Ukraine and their traffic was routed through The Netherlands, but BREIN contacted the ISP NForce and service was stopped. Subsequently The Pirate Bay moved their hosting location to a nuclear bunker owned by CyberBunker just outside Kloetinge in the south of the Netherlands. [79]
In April 2007, a rumour was confirmed on the Swedish talk show Bert that The Pirate Bay had received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some consternation since Lundström, an heir to the Wasabröd fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like Sverigedemokraterna and Bevara Sverige Svenskt (Keep Sweden Swedish).
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 ...
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]
Wikipedia: The Pirate Bay Trial. The Pirate Bay trial is a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement...
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]
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 the face of legal prosecution and shutdown threats. [20] Telenor was recently forced to ban the DNS of TPB (although other cloud based clones still are available).