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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).
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.
At the time, Netease was offering a Grooveshark-like free music service. December 2014 – IsoHunt release the source code for Pirate Bay allowing anyone to deploy their own version of The Pirate Bay. [citation needed]
Several types of websites support the discovery and distribution of data on the BitTorrent network. Public torrent-hosting sites such as The Pirate Bay allow users to search and download from their collection of torrent files. Users can typically also upload torrent files for content they wish to distribute.
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.
BayFiles was a file-hosting website created by two of the founders of The Pirate Bay. BayFiles works by letting users upload files to its servers and share them online. [1] Users are provided with a link to access their files, which can be shared with anyone on the internet so that they can download the files associated with the particular link.
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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]