The Pirate Bay Enters List of 100 Most Popular Webites
Written by Ernesto on May 18, 2008The Pirate Bay is growing bigger and bigger, much to the displeasure of anti-piracy outfits such as the MPAA and IFPI. The BitTorrent tracker even managed to slip into the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet, and it doesn’t seem to stop there.
The Pirate Bay is the second BitTorrent site that has managed to get a spot among the 100 most visited (97) domains on the Internet. The BitTorrent tracker has good company in this prestigious list, as it brushes shoulders with sites such as Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia.
Of all BitTorrent sites, Mininova is currently in the lead, ranked 52thnd according to Alexa’s new and improved statistics. The Piratebay comes second, before isoHunt, Torrentz.com and btjunkie. It is estimated that The Pirate Bay has close to 25 million unique visitors per month.
It is not only the web traffic that got a traffic boost, the number of people using the Pirate Bay tracker has quadrupled compared to the population in December 2006, and is now at 12 million. The number of torrents has grown from 600,000 to 1,200,000 in the same period.
Hollywood is doing all it can to force The Pirate Bay offline, but it seems that the site only grows more and more, perhaps because of the extra publicity generated by anti-piracy activities. We saw a similar pattern two years ago, when the Pirate Bay nearly doubled their traffic after the raid by the Swedish police.
The expansion of The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites shows that BitTorrent’s popularity continues to grow, and there is no sign that this will stop anytime soon.
Previously: Danish Copyright Censorship Proposal Revealed
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wonderful… top 100 sites is a milestone for sure :)
Sweeeeeet! Super ssweeeet! Cheesy poofs time!!!!
Great job.
The Anti-Piracy lobbies are getting more and more restless…
I love TPB, use it everyday.
Let’s hope they win in court. that would be epic.
Good job TPB, and I hope they win in court.
Good job!
Its nice that TBP is getting more popular than before. However, it would be nice to keep the torrent sites on the down low. And especially some of the newer ones.
Let’s help keep the greedy anti pirates away. Its okay to share. Its okay to sample before purchasing.
Peace to all the sharers of the world.
Nice. More stressful fuel for the anti pirates. Take that and then some.
This is a milestone of some sorts, unlike the 12million? or was it 14? (just imo a quite odd “milepoint” number)
its been on the list for so long now lol
Congrats TPB!
Getting closer to the no1 spot!!
Cheers!
http://www.ezee.se/
First BT site that gets to NUM 1 gets a cookie!!
People, come on think about this… Do we really want people talking about how popular a “Torrent” website is of all things? Do we want all this free downloading to come to an end? Then why are people talking about how popular a torrent board has become. Congrats TPB on bringing the spotlight on your website and keeping if off the real scene :)
[quote]Its nice that TBP is getting more popular than before. However, it would be nice to keep the torrent sites on the down low. And especially some of the newer ones.
Let’s help keep the greedy anti pirates away. Its okay to share. Its okay to sample before purchasing. [/quote]
Anti-freedom people already know about all the sharing sites already, I’m sure.
You guys [TPB Admins] should thank the MPAA and the RIAA for the free advertisement they’ve been doing for thepiratebay.org
That’s the only thing that they’re good for, anyway.
Good job, by the way.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
FAIL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bGxxrwhC38
It’s amazing what a little RIAA/Web Sheriff advertising can do for you, eh?
Fuck the pooolice.
Just shows paying attention to Torrent sites from Hollywood only encourages use of their services.
>Congrats TPB on bringing the
>spotlight on your website and
>keeping if off the real scene :)
At least the TPG guys show some huge balls by openly objecting copyright nazism and protecting out rights to use modern technology and to copy and share information freely and without fear of fascist prosecution. They even formed a political party in numerous european countries in order to make people aware that nobody has the right to wide scale prohibit private information sharing and communication.
The “scene”, on the other side, apart from delivering some content, does _nothing_ for our cause, but keeps hiding in the underground. Hiding from the big nazi guys in the dark like a frightened pussy isnt really what makes this world a nicer and better place. Stand up for your fucking rights or the copyright fascists will get them piece by piece.
Congrats to the entire TPB team, a well deserved round of beers all around.
Well done TPB.
True Champions of the people!
“People, come on think about this… Do we really want people talking about how popular a “Torrent” website is of all things? Do we want all this free downloading to come to an end?”
You are mistaken. More publicity results in exponential growth, as first witnessed with Napster. If the cartels have learned anything it should be that. With Napster they had their way, but TPB is not in the same situation.
Do u think the cartels will go away if people stop talking about it? Or if less people were using TPB? Their sights are set on them and they don’t give up. When they fail in court they will have their next attack strategy already in hand. Already they are invoking Net censorship in Sweden, as well as attacking ISPs themselves, among other things.
The public could learn something from their diligence in persecuting file sharing. Unfettered greed is their motivation, but if we were half as committed as them we would have wiped them out long ago. We outnumber them millions to one.
If only they would have more English translation on their site guess what? Even more growth.
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