The Pirate Bay’s Torrents Quadruple in a Year

Written by Ernesto on March 12, 2007

Like most other BitTorrent sites, The Pirate Bay has grown explosively over the last year. They are now tracking 500.000 .torrent files and almost 5 million peers, what makes them by far the most popular BitTorrent tracker. In comparison, a year ago they tracked only 125.000 torrents.

the party bay

To celebrate this great accomplishment, the Pirate Bay crew decided to give the Swedish King a diploma. “The diploma is a congratulatory diploma about our joint efforts in making Sweden famous globally when it comes to technology and culture”, writes Brokep on the Pirate Bay blog.

Make no mistake, King Carl XVI Gustaf really deserves it. A few weeks ago the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) published a report in which Sweden was placed on their piracy watch list. The IIPA considers Sweden to be a save haven for pirates. The Pirate bay is also mentioned in the report, hate that The Pirate Bay admins “proudly flaunt their role in facilitating infringements, often taking pot shots at rights holders from whom they receive notices of infringing activity”.

It’s worth celebrating.

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15 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)

1 Mar 12, 2007 at 23:08 by M NC

I have no real intelligent comment to make: WAHOO!

2 Mar 13, 2007 at 00:52 by corey

You CANT stop file-sharing! kiss it MPAA RIAA and other Anti-”piracy” groups…

3 Mar 13, 2007 at 01:35 by Yatti

4 Mar 13, 2007 at 03:23 by Bolt_Gundam510

Pirates: “movie HO!”

way to go pirate bay keep growing and show all them anti piracy groups what your all about.

5 Mar 13, 2007 at 10:37 by Phen

Torrents are neat…sometimes slow, but neat! I also use Gigatribe, which is file-sharing that is encrypted, see about it here: http://www.gigatribe.com

6 Mar 13, 2007 at 13:37 by Jamie

Of course numbers have increased what with all the publicity in the news about pirate bay. I think they shot themselves in the foot trying to take PB down

7 Mar 13, 2007 at 17:13 by freakinturtle

:-P

8 Mar 14, 2007 at 15:31 by Windows Vista

arrrrr
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9 Mar 18, 2007 at 20:51 by jug

Pirate Bay may have grown, but I still never find what I’m looking for there.

10 Jul 17, 2007 at 14:54 by Fatfuckfrank

use “FFF” in your Piratebay search, you will not be disappointed……

11 Nov 24, 2007 at 02:59 by thereelone

ARRR me hearty its an ill wind thats blowin’ up those skirts of mpaa &co.

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