The Pirate Bay Founder Ordered to Pay $395,000 Fine in Lawsuit he didn't even know about

One of the founders of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been ordered to pay a fine worth nearly US$400,000 to several major record labels after their content was shared illegally via the platform. The penalty has been imposed on The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde by a court in...

The Pirate Bay loses its Main Domain Name in Court Battle

The Pirate Bay has fought many legal battles since its launch in 2003 to keep the website operational for the last 13 years. However, this time The Pirate Bay is suffering a major blow after the Swedish Court ruled Thursday that it will take away the domain names 'ThePirateBay.se' and...

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, aka Anakata, Released from Prison

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the co-founder of the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, has been released from a Sweden prison following three years behind bars for hacking and copyright offenses. Yes, Svartholm Warg, also known as Anakata, is a free man again. Svartholm was convicted on bo...

The Pirate Bay Founders Free Of Criminal Copyright Case

The four co-founders of The Pirate Bay, the world’s most popular torrent website, have been cleared of charges alleging criminal copyright infringement and abuse of electronic communications in a Belgian court. The Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl...

The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Released From Swedish Prison

Fredrik Neij, the third and the last founder of the infamous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, was released on Monday from a Swedish prison. Neij, who goes by the online moniker "TiAMO", was arrested by Thai immigration authorities at the end of November 2014 while he was trying to cross the...

The Pirate Bay Updated With Phoenix Image and Set to return on 1 February

The Pirate Bay — an infamous Torrent website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — could be relaunched on 1st February, the date the website has long been expected to return. The website went dark from the Internet following a raid in Sweden last month. After a complai...

The Pirate Bay's 3rd and the Last Founder Arrested After 4 Years On The Run

Fredrik Neij – known online as "TiAMO", third and the last founder of the popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested driving across the border of Laos and Thailand. The 36-year-old fugitive Fredrik Neij was convicted by a Swedish court in 2009 of aiding copyright infringement a...