According to a report by Torrent Freak, The
Pirate Bay admitted to testing a JavaScript code which allowed the site to 'borrow' a visitor's CPU for mining the cryptocurrency Monero.
File-sharing websites such as
Pirate Bay and Torrentz have angered music and film companies by providing a platform where users can illegally share films and videos over the internet, costing content providers millions of euros in lost revenue.
(7) Additionally, the criminal prosecution of copyright infringers becomes more difficult when much of the illegal downloading and sharing occurs overseas on websites that do not have servers located within the United States; the best example of this is the popular torrent indexing and tracking site The
Pirate Bay. (8) When the website is based in another country, as The
Pirate Bay is based in Sweden, conferring jurisdiction becomes tricky because usually the crime is prosecuted where it occurred (9) but where did this crime occur?
However, almost as soon as the domains were seized, the
Pirate Bay quickly found homes on other domains.
Hacking the State: From The
Pirate Bay to Pirate Parties
The leaked report also revealed that
Pirate Bay and its users were on the NSA's potential hit list.
Some reports indicate that private torrent sites are still accessible, as well as many proxy sites for
Pirate Bay and Kickass.
At least some unauthorized "House of Cards" copies on the
Pirate Bay originated from overseas airings, including on News Corp.'s pay TV platform Sky Deutschland.
Echoing a prank from 2007, the
Pirate Bay on Monday claimed the site was now being hosted in North Korea at that government's invitation.
The High Court has slammed the doors on The
Pirate Bay file-sharing site, but blocking the internet isn't as simple as that.