1. The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a Swedish website that
hosts magnet links, which allow users to share electronic files,
including music, computer games and software, via BitTorrent. The Pirate
Bay bills itself as "The world's most resilient BitTorrent site" (as of
2012, "The galaxy's most resilient...") The Pirate Bay is currently
ranked as the 78th most visited website in the world and 20th in Sweden
by Alexa Internet, has over 5.5 million registered users and, as of
February 2012, hosts more than 4 million torrent files. According to the
Los Angeles Times, The Pirate Bay is "one of the world's...
