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Pirate Bay celebrates ten years, launches block evading browser
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 12 August 2013
Music, comedy and even some go-go dancers, because, well, why not, were all on show at a party held on the outskirts of Stockholm this weekend to celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Pirate Bay.
And even though those who originally created the file-sharing website are no longer actively involved, either in prison or trying to stay out of prison after being found guilty of contributory copyright infringement in the Swedish criminal courts, the fact that TPB is still operational after a decade, given how many lawsuits it has lost around the world, is quite an achievement. However much the music and movie industries wish the Bay would go the way of Napster, Grokster, Limewire, et al.
Of course the content industries have successfully won web-block injunctions in various territories that force internet service providers to stop their customers from accessing the Bay; but such blocks are relatively easy to circumvent. And to mark its tenth anniversary, The Pirate Bay announced a new bit of software called the Pirate Browser that will help with that circumventing, enabling uses to find the file-sharing service and other similar sites beyond any court-ordered ISP-instigated blocks.
The people behind The Pirate Bay of today said via their blog: “It’s a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible”.