The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent (.torrent) files. It bills itself as “the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker” and is ranked as the 109th most popular website by Alexa Internet. The website is primarily funded with advertisements shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau), it has been operating as a separate organization since October 2004. The website is currently run by Gottfrid Svartholm (anakata), Fredrik Neij (TiAMO) and Peter Sunde (brokep).

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