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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]
Initially, The Pirate Bay's four Linux servers ran a custom web server called Hypercube. An old version is open-source. [55] On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2 HTTP requests per millisecond on each of the four web servers, [56] as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the front-end of the website.
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]
April 2012 saw the UK high court order five leading UK ISPs to block access to Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay. [16] The case was brought after the ISPs refused to block the site voluntarily [17] and after one ISP was ordered to block a similar site Newzbin2 in July 2011. [18]
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 ...
The decision restored access in India to video and file-sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] In July 2014, the site was blocked again due to infringement caused in the policies regarding FIFA broadcasting activities in countries, with a "This site has been blocked as per the instructions of Competent Authority" message ...
By installing a Pirate Bay block on all ISPs, ACAPOR hoped to decrease the financial damage it claims The Pirate Bay causes. [26] On October 18, 2010, the ACAPOR website was defaced, presenting text from Operation Payback and a redirect to The Pirate Bay after a few seconds. In addition to defacing the website, a copy of the email database of ...
The New York Times wrote in 2008 that "The Pirate Bay guys have made a sport out of taunting all forms of authority, including the Swedish police, and PRQ has gone out of its way to be a host to sites that other companies would not touch." [2] The PRQ service has been described as "highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services".