On 23 January 2012, The Pirate Bay added the new category Physibles. PRQ is said to provide 'highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services to its customers.' From May 2011, Serious Tubes Networks started providing network connectivity to The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay was hosted for several years by PRQ, a Sweden-based company, owned by creators of TPB Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij. On 23 June 2010, the group Piratbyrån disbanded due to the death of Ibi Kopimi Botani, a prominent member and co-founder of the group. Access to the website was later restored with a message making fun of the injunction on their front page.

On, due to an injunction against their bandwidth provider, the site was taken offline. On 26 November 2010, a Swedish appeals court upheld the verdict, decreasing the original prison terms but increasing the fine to 46 million SEK. The defendants appealed the verdict and accused the judge of giving in to political pressure. On 17 April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in prison and payment of a fine of 30 million SEK (app. The Pirate Bay has been involved in a number of lawsuits, both as plaintiff and as defendant. On, the website's servers in Stockholm were raided and taken away by Swedish police, leading to three days of downtime. They have both been accused of 'assisting in making copyrighted content available' by the Motion Picture Association of America. The Pirate Bay was first run by Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, who are known by their nicknames 'anakata' and 'TiAMO', respectively. The Pirate Bay was established in November 2001 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau) it has been run as a separate organization since October 2004. 10 Relations to other Swedish organizations.Since then, proxies have been made all around the world providing access to The Pirate Bay.

In some countries, ISPs have been ordered to block access to the website. They were found guilty and sentenced to a year in prison with a fine of 30 million SEK (€2.7M or US$3.5M as of 2009). In 2009, the website’s founders were put on trial in Sweden, charged with facilitating illegal downloading of copyrighted material. The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a website providing torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol.

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