Twenty years ago today, dozens of Swedish police officers stormed a Stockholm data center, seizing The Pirate Bay's servers. The entertainment industry hoped the raid would finish the site for good. Instead, the police action inadvertently helped to create one of the most resilient and iconic websites on the Internet, one that remains online today.
People still use that site? I swore it basically disappeared and had been duplicated by a bunch of scammers that used the old archives and a handful of new posts to serve ads and sometimes malware. TIL it’s still around legitimately
People still use that site? I swore it basically disappeared and had been duplicated by a bunch of scammers that used the old archives and a handful of new posts to serve ads and sometimes malware. TIL it’s still around legitimately