History of The Pirate Bay and TBP Proxy sites [100% Working]

The Pirate Bay was founded in 2003 by the Swedish Piracy Bureau, TPB was set to create the first public file sharing network in Sweden. All of this at a time when piracy was still marginal, the internet was carrying awkward speeds, and streaming music and movies (as we know it today) belonged to the sci-fi realm. But The Pirate Bay has quickly become a global website. With a rich controversial history.

United States has tried to destroy The Pirate Bay several times in 13 years of its existence. Sweden has also tried to shut TBP down many times. First time in 2006 and then several times more. The founders themselves were accused of criminal acts and then convicted. The domain used for The Pirate Bay had to change many times, but none of it completely eliminated the site, because of The Pirate Bay proxy sites.

History of The Pirate Bay

Let’s go back to the history of The Pirate Bay, a little more detailed view is sometimes very interesting. And if you read this post to the end, you’ll be able to see the historical ranking of torrent sites.

2003-2005

September 2003: The Pirate Bay is based in Sweden by The Piracy Burea (Piratbyran), which is also focused on the fight against copyright. The first operators were Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij (some say it was Peter Sunde). What is interesting, Gottfrid Svartholm launched TBP on a server in Mexico, the service was moved to Sweden one year later.

October 2004: The Pirate Bay becomes an independent organization. It is hosted on a laptop with 256 MB RAM and 1 GHz processor.

July 2005: 80% of TPB traffic comes from abroad, leading to multiple language releases.

December 2005: TPB has two and a half million users.

2006

Sometime in 2006: Reservella become The Pirate Bay owners, a company without employees, registered in Seychelles. The original three owners retain full control, but claim that Reservella is owned by a third party.

May 2006: The Swedish police intercepted and confiscated The Pirate Bay servers in Stockholm, causing three days of blackouts. The founders were accused by the American MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) of helping to disseminate copyrighted material.

June 2006: Swedish Television reports that the The Pirate Bay’s intervention was ordered by the Ministry of Justice after negotiations in the US. It should be a violation of constitutional rights. Hackers respond to the announcement by attacking Swedish police sites. Sweden later reacts by that the US was threatening them with WTO sanctions.

July 2006: One million registered users.

2007

January 2007: TPB strives to buy the Principality of Sealand, a micro-nation located on an abandoned fortress in the sea. The government has failed, the government has refused it because sharing constitutes “theft of rights”.

April 2007: Carl Lundström is revealed as the main source of funding for The Pirate Bay. Lundström is a Swedish entrepreneur financing a number of far-right and xenophobic parties.

May 2007: TPB has been attacked by hackers who have received a copy of the user database (1.5 million users in leakage).

July 2007: The media speculates that The Pirate Bay earns hundreds of thousands of dollars every week on advertisements and spun them through a swarm of Swiss companies. The owners refuse to have anything out of it.

2008

June 2008: TPB begins to support SSL, mainly due to a change of laws in Sweden on wiretapping.

2009

March 2009: Facebook blocks links to The Pirate Bay. Which is quite understandable because TPB is full of porn and Viagra ads.

April 2008: Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in prison and paid 30 million SEK(over $4 million). The convicts appealed.

June 2009: Swedish Global Gaming Factory X AB wants to buy TPB, offers 60 million SEK(Swedish crowns). And although it seemed that the TPB was really sold, it didn’t happen.

October 2009: One of the superior ISPs completely blocked TPB for virtually the whole world. But the TPB quickly appeared in the Netherlands at the IP proxy address of CyberBunker.

2010

May 2010: A court order against The Pirate Bay’s connection provider took care of shutdown. The long-term provider of connectivity and hosting was PRQ, owned by the first two founders. The court eventually stepped on the above-mentioned CyberBunker and its re-launch goes to the Swedish Pirate Party.

June 2010: The original The Piracy Bureau falls apart after the death of one of the prominent members and founders.

July 2010: Hackers managed to get into The Pirate Bay and get user accounts, passwords and other data (four million accounts).

October 2010: The Pirate Bay has been trying to host in Ukraine for a while, but then has returned to the Netherlands, but it is not easy there also.

November 2010: The Swedish Court of Appeal upheld the April 2008 judgment, increased the fine (to 46 million) and reduced prison time.

2011

May 2011: Serious Tubes Networks starts to provide hosting and connection. TPB moves to a cave complex near Malmö.

2012

February 2012: TPB ends with torrent files and goes to “magnetic” links. Later, it also moves to a “cloud” infrastructure that will allow you to host on multiple servers in different countries.

March 2012: Microsoft blocks links to TPB in Windows Live Messenger.

May 2012: TPB is the goal of a massive DDoS attack that lasted almost 24 hours.

September 2012: Gottfried is released from Cambodia to Sweden to join prison. Sweden will send $59 million in aid to Cambodia a few days later. Google has removed The Pirate Bay from a whisperer.

2013

March 2013: TPB is part of the “greatest Internet-based attack in history” where Cyberbunker and Spamhaus play the main role.

April 2013: The Pirate Bay moves to .GL domain after warning that Sweden is about to hit servers again. The .GL domain is suspended very quickly, TPB is moving to the .IS domain to move again after a while, this time to .SX.

May 2013: The Pirate Bay – Away from Keyboard is a documentary film and is not surprising that Hollywood doesn’t like it. Studios are asking for its removal.

August 2013: TPB launches PirateBrowser, a browser to prevent Internet censorship.

December 2013: TPB is losing the .SX domain, moving to .AC and then to other domains. This is followed by a return to .SE.

2014

June 2014: Peter Sunde is arrested. He lived in Germany for two years but was finally arrested in Sweden. He also failed to appeal to the Supreme Court.

November 2014: Neij is detained in Thailand, the media says the American film companies have put on detectives.

December 2014: Google has removed most of the apps in the title “The Pirate Bay” from Google Play, and the Swedish police have again tapped the TPB and seized servers, computers and other devices. This led to a further shutdown of the TPB, including several other related sites. Finally, a number of proxy sites and copies of TPB were created. Problems lead to a substantial increase in traffic and popularity of KickassTorrents. But also to create a flood of fraudulent copies of TPB, trying to spread malware and mischief.

2015

January 2015: TPB gets rid of the “employees” and one of the former administrators (WTC-SWE). Seven weeks after server seizures, The Pirate Bay returns online (January 31, 2015).

February 2015: Anonymous claims the new TPB is actually created by the FBI.

April 2015: Even Russia has already ordered its ISP to block TPB domains.

May 2015: The court seized the .SE domain for TPB, which launched the launch of six other domains. An appeal was brought against the judgment, which eventually ended in failure, and the domain was handed over to Sweden.

December 2015: TPB lost .LA, .GD, .MN, .VG and some other domains. Including the original .ORG, which is recovered after resolving the “dispute” with ICANN.

2016

January 2016: TPB is on the .MS domain. And the Czech Pirate Party is being prosecuted for operating a non-commercial site with links. Although the Pirate Bay is not directly related to this prosecution, it is an identical mechanism. TPB also does not host any illegal content.

February 2016: KickassTorrents downloads to .SO domain and looks pretty much like it used to be with TPB in the past. Coming domains coming, including a few returns to the original Kickass.to. It is mainly related to TPB by taking over the role of the most widely used torrent site.

April 2016: Steam censors links to TPB in chat and TPB was nearly 24 hours offline, but due to a technical error.

May 2016: TPB returns to its original .ORG domain. Ultimately, the attempt at a multi-headed hydra ends. Content tip recipes

June 2016: The RIAA is attempting to destroy the .ORG domain, it is not coming out.

July 2016: End of KickassTorrents, his Ukrainian operator was detained in Poland. Of course, based on American investigations and a number of incomprehensible trivial errors.

The Pirate Bay Proxy Sites

The Pirate Bay is blocked in several countries and also ISPs (internet service providers) across the world. Proxy sites are websites that fetch The Pirate Bay data and put them into domain that isn’t blocked by your country or ISP, so you can easily access it. Here is current list of working The Pirate Bay Proxy Sites: