In 2003, three activists in Sweden launched a small torrent indexing site.
It quickly became the most visited torrent site in the world — loved by users, hated by governments and Hollywood studios.
Despite police raids, multi-million-dollar lawsuits, and even the founders being sent to prison, The Pirate Bay is still online today.
In this episode, we uncover:
How The Pirate Bay was created and why it became unstoppable
The legal loopholes that made shutting it down nearly impossible
The story behind the dramatic 2006 and 2014 police raids
How copies of the site kept popping up faster than authorities could take them down
Where the founders are now — and how their mission still shapes the internet today
Whether you agree with piracy or not, The Pirate Bay’s history raises a question we still haven’t answered: Can information ever truly be censored?
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