The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
F ounded in September 2003 by a collective of hackers and activists (Gottfrid Svartholm Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde), the small Swedish BitTorrent tracker grew to become a global icon for online piracy [1] (for a more detailed history, click here ). The website is probably the most famous piracy site on the Web for illegally downloading copyrighted material. To avoid censorship [2] , for its 10 th birthday, the BitTorrent site released a new “Pirate Browser” [3] . This browser (see picture on the left) “allows you to circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland impose onto their citizens” [4] . If you are not familiar with The Pirate Bay (TPB), I highly recommend you watch this great documentary available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfRFh_h5ICE Happy Birthday TPB! [1] http://mashable....