false 0 1 false false true 3012 false 4000000 2155 2010-07-20T19:14:04Z 1003 Hack NAA EMA 2010-07-07 19:50:00 UTC Organization reports incident Outside 1 The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a Swedish website that provides magnet links. It bills itself as "The world's most resilient bittorrent site" and is ranked as the 85th most popular website in the world and 17th in Sweden by Alexa Internet since 2008 and has over 4 million registered users. According to the Los Angeles Times, The Pirate Bay is "one of the world's largest facilitators of illegal downloading" and "the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright or pro-piracy movement". Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau) the website has been run as a separate organization since October 2004. The website used to be run by Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij who are known as... The Pirate Bay 2844 Pirate Bay 2011-07-09T11:52:55Z

4,000,000 user names and email addresses stolen in hack

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