Pirate Bay Snags 10 Millionth User

P2P directory Pirate Bay has managed to sign up its 10 millionth peer making itself the world's largest P2P tracker.

While the outfit might be breaking out the bolly, there is no doubt that the news will greatly miff its enemies in the Music and Film industry which dub the outfit a bastion of piracy.

However, you have to admit that what ever your views on piracy the fact that you can have 10 million simultaneous users running is a pretty big feat. It is two million times bigger than the population of Pirate Bay's home country Sweden for a start.

According to Slyck.com, the P2P voice over IP outfit Skype has about 9.1 million individuals connected as a comparison.

Pirate Bay also boasts that it has a million torrents on its site.

Although the site was shut down by the authorities last May, it seems that it has grown since that day. When coppers raided Pirate Bay's server farm it only had 2.5 million users. It seems that the publicity caused by the raids only helped the site grow.

Authorities have said that they plan to prosecute Pirate Bay Public prosecutor Hakan Roswall said last week he will charge the Swedish site's organisers with accessory and conspiracy to break copyright law.

Story source: theinquirer.net.