Website
website:the_pirate_bay
Also: Pirate Bay, TPB
Torrent site named as a destination for copied Blu-ray movies.
Torrent site named as a destination for copied Blu-ray movies.
“torrent sites like The Pirate Bay”
Website whose founders also started BayWords, according to the episode.
“it was started by the same people who started The Pirate Bay.”
Website where Gears of War 3 appeared after being leaked from the group.
“it showed up on The Pirate Bay for anyone in the world to download”
A BitTorrent index and search service that lists torrent files and connects users to peer locations without hosting the indexed content itself.
“it’s an index of BitTorrent files”
“It didn’t host any of this content itself; it really was just like a search engine.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | BitTorrent | Explicit | 92 |
| outgoing | CONTAINS | torrent file | Explicit | 92 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | PRQ | Explicit | 92 |
| outgoing | USES | front-end load balancer | Explicit | 92 |
| incoming | LEADS_TO | HD DVD/Blu-ray decryption key release | Derived | 16 |
| incoming | COMPROMISES | The Pirate Bay user-data breach | Explicit | 92 |
HD DVD/Blu-ray decryption key release LEADS_TO The Pirate Bay
Jack describes a chain in which the key enabled ripping software, which led to copied movies being distributed through torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay.
Derived Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 16 Details
“Then they post and distribute the movies to torrent sites like The Pirate Bay”
The Pirate Bay USES BitTorrent
The Pirate Bay is described as an index and search engine for BitTorrent files.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 92 Details
“it’s an index of BitTorrent files”
The Pirate Bay CONTAINS torrent file
Users submit torrent files to The Pirate Bay, which lists them as locations for downloading content.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 92 Details
“users would submit torrent files which were just locations of where you could download the music or movies”
The Pirate Bay ASSOCIATED_WITH PRQ
The Pirate Bay was hosted at PRQ, a company belonging to one of its co-founders.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 92 Details
“The Pirate Bay was hosted at a Swedish company called PRQ”
The Pirate Bay USES front-end load balancer
After the raid, The Pirate Bay used a front-end load balancer and backup locations to avoid a single point of failure.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi EP 92 Details
“we put up basically a front-end load balancer at one location and then we had a backup location for that”
The Pirate Bay user-data breach COMPROMISES The Pirate Bay
A hacker accessed The Pirate Bay's admin panel, exposed user details, and gained full control of the website.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 92 Details
“a hacker from Argentina hacked into The Pirate Bay and exposed a bunch of user details”
“It looks like he got into the admin panel which gave him full control of the website”