Yaarrr, let thar be downloadz
Posted by Luc in 
“The world’s most resilient bit torrent site” is trying to avoid walking the plank, as the four founders of The Pirate Bay make the first of 8 court appearances today in an effort to appeal the charges laid against them in April 2009. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström are all appealing a sentence of one year in prison and almost a million dollars each in fines ($950,000).
Although you may think this means you won’t be able to download content from The Pirate Bay anymore, rest assured, it’s still running. It hasn’t been the same site since the tracker was shut down last year, but most files can still be found on the site and downloaded fairly quickly. Not that we advocate illegal file sharing. Its no Aaron Sorkin/David Fincher/JustinTimberlake Facebook Party Film, but we’re actually just really excited for the Pirate Bay movie coming out soon
Since its launch in 2004, The Pirate Bay has been one of the most popular and prolific media downloading programs in the world, offering films, TV shows, and music to all those willing to accept it for free. The website has long been funded by both private investors (most from The Pirate Parties of Sweden) and from advertisements that would run on the page while users were downloading/file searching.