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PirateBrowser downloaded a million times
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 23 October 2013
The Pirate Bay has announced that its previously reported PirateBrowser software, launched to coincide with the controversial file-sharing site’s tenth anniversary in August, has now been downloaded a million times. According to TorrentFreak, now about 0.5% of people visiting the Bay do so using the tool.
PirateBrowser is designed to circumvent the web-blocks that have been instigated in various countries, including the UK, where internet service providers are forced to stop their customers from accessing the file-sharing service via its usual domains.
As previously noted, numerous proxy sites exist to help the customers of web-blocking ISPs to still access the Bay, but PirateBrowser saves file-sharers the (very moderate) hassle of having to seek one out, by automatically routing them around any blockades.
A spokesman for the Bay told TorrentFreak: “I guess that a lot of people want to see the websites their governments and courts are trying to hide from them”.
