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5 unusual facts about The Pirate Bay


Cybernorms group

On April 18, 2011, the torrent site The Pirate Bay renamed itself to "Research Bay," a display of their collaboration with the Cybernorms group.

Georgia Wonder

In January 2009, Georgia Wonder released their EP, Hello Stranger, onto file sharing sites and quickly entered the top twenty "most shared" songs on The Pirate Bay.

Nasty Old People

It premiered on 10 October 2009 at Kontrapunkt in Malmö, and on file sharing site The Pirate Bay.

Pirate Parties International

in Sweden's European Parliament elections and won two of Sweden's twenty MEP seats, inspired by a surge in membership following the trial and conviction of three members of the ideologically aligned Pirate Bay a year earlier.

The Yes Men Fix the World

Due to the movie being sued by United States Chamber of Commerce, a special edition of the movie is distributed through bittorrent through VODO and other prominent torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and EZTV.


Christine Schürrer

In September 2008, the Swedish media reported that the public preliminary investigation protocols concerning Schürrer's murder trial had been made available through a torrent on The Pirate Bay, a Swedish website providing magnet links.

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story is being financed via crowdfunding on the popular website Kickstarter and is scheduled to be released under the creative commons licence for free on September 19 2014 via The Pirate Bay.


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The Pirate Bay raid

Mikael Viborg, the legal advisor to The Pirate Bay, was arrested at his apartment, brought in for questioning, forced to submit a DNA sample and had his electronic equipment seized.