Usually abbreviated as TPB, The Pirate Bay is a popular peer-to-peer site offering millions of files, commonly referred to as torrents, that can be downloaded for free using BitTorrent protocol. In , the three Swedes Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij who created this website as a platform for sharing knowledge were found guilty of enabling copyright infringement and were consequently sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay a fine. Downloading files from the pirate bay is quite simple since its database is carefully categorized to enable visitors to find their preferred files quickly. Files on this website come in various forms, including audio, video, applications, and games. If you are searching for the most popular content on the site, you simply click on the Top Button and if you want the recently uploaded content, you click on the Recent Button.

The Pirate Bay sometimes abbreviated as TPB is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software. The Pirate Bay has sparked controversies and discussion about legal aspects of file sharing , copyright , and civil liberties and has become a platform for political initiatives against established intellectual property laws as well as a central figure in an anti-copyright movement. In April , the website's founders Peter Sunde , Fredrik Neij , and Gottfrid Svartholm were found guilty in the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden for assisting in copyright infringement and were sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine.

Released: Dec 25, View statistics for this project via Libraries. The search function returns a Torrents object, which is a list-like collection of the torrents found. You can also iterate over the Torrents object just by calling it in a for loop see example above. You can see how many Torrent objects your query has returned, by using the len function.