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May 31, 2011 7:00 AM

May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered

2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down. “Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.” That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America. After […]

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