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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. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.
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).
According to Cloudflare, "The pirate site tried to interfere with and thwart the operation of the company's abuse reporting systems." [14] In 2020 the site was blocked in India, along with other pirate streaming and torrent websites, after a decision by the Delhi High Court in favour of the plaintiff, Disney India. The court order provided for ...
archive.today – Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand [2] 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]
On 5 October 2011, The Pirate Bay registered the domain name depiraatbaai.be and baiedespirates.be, allowing Belgian users to access the site again, without using alternative DNS providers. [ 13 ] On 18 April 2012, TorrentFreak reports that these two alternate domain names were also blocked, presumably added to the already existing court order.
In particular, one study [38] shows that out of all domains the study classified as pirate, 7.1% are infected (while out of random domains only 0.4% were infected); another study [39] maintains that '"maliciousness" of the content for sites they classified as pirate (which specifically included warez sites) is the highest among all the ...
Reddit moderators appear to be enforcing guidelines in hopes of staving off a full shutdown of the r/piracy subreddit, yet they're also planning for the worst.
RuTracker.org (also stylized as rutracker★org; known as torrents.ru until 2010) is the biggest Russian BitTorrent tracker. [1] As of December 2024, it has 14.9 million registered active users, 2.484 million torrents (2.479 million of them being active), and the total volume of all torrents is 5.8 petabytes.