The Pirate Bay turned 10 years old
The Pirate Bay, keepers of an ever-growing database of torrent links, celebrated its 10th anniversary yesterday, with a large open party in Sweden where the organization was founded.
By often changing its domain name from one TLD to another, The Pirate Bay has managed to survive on the very thin ice of copyright legislation, as it exists in the US and various countries in Europe.
Its official address currently is ThePirateBay.sx, a ccTLD of the country of Sint Maarten, a Dutch dependency.
Despite the jail time that one of its founders is currently spending in a Swedish jail for charges unrelated to pirating, The Pirate Bay appears to operate without the need for a centralized command; much like the torrent ideology that it utilizes for its thousands of links to pirated material.
The Pirate Bay does not store actual files of copyrighted material, but rather, pointers to thousands – if not millions – of computers that share “a piece of the pie.”
Ten years “on the run” is something that not many would be proud of, yet the folks behind The Pirate Bay seem to enjoy it.
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