The Pirate Bay
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![The Pirate Bay in 2004](/Images/godic/202502/02/Pirate_Bay_in_20045810.png")
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The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is an online index of digital content of mostly entertainment media, founded in 2003, where visitors can search, download and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing among users of the BitTorrent protocol.