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.
(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?
The Pirate Bay has long had an antagonistic relationship with the courts and as recently as December, its Swedish domain had been taken down.
Hacking the State: From
The Pirate Bay to Pirate Parties
"We hope that yesterday's little hack proved that we know the internet better than our enemies,"
The Pirate Bay said on itsFacebook page, along with a few more paragraphs of colourful bravado.
The High Court wants internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to Swedish-based
The Pirate Bay.
The Pirate Bay is the world's largest BitTorrent site, enabling and encouraging the mass illegal distribution of copyrighted content, including music, movies, TV programmes, games and publications.
PETER Sunde, a co-founder of the high-profile file-sharing website
The Pirate Bay, has described new legal action against the site as nothing more than harassment.
IN response to the letter about the lack of convictions for hosts of illegally shared copyrighted material, I point out the recent case of
The Pirate Bay.
A SMALL Swedish software firm has bought
The Pirate Bay, the hugely popular file-sharing website, for pounds 4.7m.