The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a Swedish website that provides magnet links. It bills itself as "The world's most resilient bittorrent site"[3] and is ranked as the 85th most popular website in the world and 17th in Sweden by Alexa Internet[2] since 2008[4] and has over 4 million registered users.[5] According to the Los Angeles Times, The Pirate Bay is "one of the world's largest facilitators of illegal downloading" and "the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright or pro-piracy movement"
