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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 ...
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.
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).
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]
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.
April 17 – The Pirate Bay trial concludes with a guilty verdict; each defendant is sentenced to one year in jail and a total of 30 million SEK (US$3.6 million, 2.7 million EUR) in fines and damages. The people behind The Pirate Bay declare they will appeal the ruling. [115]
Anna's Archive Anna's Archive homepage (January 15, 2025) Type of site Search engine, digital library, file sharing Founder(s) Anna Archivist, Pirate Library Mirror URL annas-archive.se annas-archive.li annas-archive.org Commercial No Registration Optional Launched November 2022 ; 2 years ago (2022-11) Part of a series on File sharing Technologies File hosting services Online video platform ...
CyberBunker served as a web host for The Pirate Bay and as one of the many WikiLeaks mirrors. [4] CyberBunker has also been accused of being a host for spammers , botnet command-and-control servers , malware , and online scams. [ 5 ]