Yummy Wakame

“It’s the Google Zeitgeist of crime” says Wired.

Nathan told me about The Pirate Bay - the world’s largest, legal, BitTorrent tracker. You can pretty much find any bit of software, games, music as well, even full version software with cracks, serials and activation keys, without worrying about those pesky popup windows or porn ads while browsing your options. Simply search for what you need and use any one of a number of free pieces of BitTorrent software to download the files. Of course actually downloading and enjoying copywrited material without paying for it or asking permission is completely illegal… but knowing where to find it isn’t.

In case you were wondering, Bittorrent is a filesharing protocol that in a reliable way enables big and fast file transfers. As you can imagine, Pirate Bay have received legal threats from big corporations like Microsoft, Dreamworks, SEGA, Apple etc, but since only torrent files are saved on their server, no copyrighted or illegal material are stored by them, so its not possible to hold them responsible for simply linking to servers that do store the material. Proprietor Fredrik Neij insists that Pirate Bay is perfectly legal under the copyright law in Sweden, where it’s based, and its continued existence lends credence to that claim.

The site has a clean look, advanced search and support for 10 languages, its open to everyone and it’s free. Tempted?

~ Ms. Wakame

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