Pirate Bay
has been taken down yet again and this time by the Swedish Government for
allegedly streaming pirated data. It is also speculated that Pirate Bay was
showing content from the latest Sony Hacking incident. In addition, other
torrent websites like EZTV, Torrage and Zoink were also down.
Although
this is latest that pirate bay has been taken down, but the website which
offers torrent files and peer to peer sharing has had its fair share of run
inn’s with the law especially pertaining to copyright infringement and piracy
issues in the past. Started in September 2003 as an anti- copyright
organization Piratbyran it became a separate organization in 2004 this
notorious site has also been banned in several countries as it is a constant
infringer and illegal distributer of copyrighted material, although the site
often pop ups with proxies and in no time resurrects with a different domain
name (it is rumored that after the recent incident the site came back with a
.cr domain name only to be taken down again) although after the latest incident
and till now it does not seem that the site is back yet.
In India
pirates bay had been banned in May 2012, after an order of the Madras High
Court however the order was overturned and the court stated that specific url’s
of the website should be blocked rather than the entire website itself. In
July 2014, the site was blocked again due to infringement caused in the
policies regarding FIFA broadcasting activities in countries.
The latest
news is that several clones of the pirates bay have come up on the internet,
but whether the mortally wounded ‘original’ pirates bay would come back to
operations is yet to be seen in this new year.
