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The Pirate Bay is the world's largest BitTorrent tracker as of 2005. It was started by the Swedish anti copyright organization Piratbyrån in early 2004, but since October 2004 has been a separate organization run by dedicated individuals.
The server (which runs Hypercube Tracking Software) is located in Gothenburg, Sweden. On June 1, 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website to version 2.0, in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage (which was reported to be at 2000 HTTP requests per second on each of four bit torrent trackers), as well as create a more friendly user interface for the frontend of the website.
Legal threats
The Pirate Bay is also known in the online piracy community as one of the more prominent organizations standing up to anti-piracy organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America in a humorous manner, while dismissing their copyright complaints as not applying in Sweden. As of July 2005, however, new legislation will be enacted in Sweden, which will possibily criminalize the behavior of The Pirate Bay.
On June 8, 2005, a hardcopy of a reply from The Pirate Bay to Web Sherrif in response to faxed legal threats was sold on Ebay for $255 .
The Pirate Bay intends to stay operational despite the passage of the upcoming legislation.