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That last line was the real point. The Pirate Bay had already survived police raids, seizures, and lawsuits. Their servers were constantly being taken down by authorities. So they turned the tables — briefly, legally, and hilariously — proving that the tools of ownership and control could be used against the owners themselves.

To this day, The Pirate Bay lives on, limping from domain to domain (the original .org long gone), while the IFPI still exists. But for one afternoon in 2006, a bunch of pirates in Stockholm made the music industry’s homepage say exactly what they wanted it to say: “Welcome. The Pirate Bay. The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker.” the pirate bays.se

One day, the site’s administrators noticed something odd: the domain ifpi.org (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) was up for expiration. Without much thought, one of the TPB founders, Peter Sunde, decided to place a bid. They won the domain for a few hundred dollars. That last line was the real point

And that’s the kind of story that turns a piracy site into a cultural myth. So they turned the tables — briefly, legally,