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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).
In February 2008, the Ministry of Information and Culture ordered ISPs to block 20 torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay, with the aim of blocking all torrent sites. ISP United Networks notified "The Ministry of information has today sent us a letter announcing they will be blocking all Torrent sites. This is due to piracy laws of the State ...
According to the TorrentFreak news blog, 1337x is the second-most popular torrent website as of 2024. [2] The U.S. Trade Representative flagged it as one of the most notorious pirate sites earlier in 2024. [3] The site and its variants have been blocked in a variety of nations including Australia, and Portugal. [4]
Soon after the verdict was announced, though, Ziggo, KPN, and XS4ALL moved to lift blockades The Pirate Bay proxies and mirrors, since the final injunction only applied to the main domain itself ...
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.
Demonoid – Torrent [3] Internet Archive – A web archiving site; KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index [4] Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles [5] The Pirate Bay – A BitTorrent index [6] [7] Z-Library – Many instances exist. [8]
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 ]
October 2013 – As part of a settlement with the MPAA, Gary Fung shuts down Torrent index site Isohunt, [137] but mirrors soon pop up. December 2013 – Hotfile shuts down following a settlement made with the Motion Picture Association of America. [138]