Of course, this can change – as soon as users reappear with the original file and allow others to download from them in the peer-to-peer network – but seems unlikely as time passes. That’s why more than four petabytes of data that was once available on Pirate Bay is now gone. Unfortunately, this does mean as soon as users delete the original file or decide to stop sharing it, the file is no longer available to torrent from Pirate Bay. Instead, all of the torrent files own the site total a few gigabytes at most – with the full files that users download stories on users’ computers across the globe. The advantage of using torrent files means that Pirate Bay doesn’t have to shoulder those eye-watering costs. Since then, it has slowly regained its momentum and looks set to match the peaks achieved back in 20.

The chart clearly shows a huge drop in activity following the raids by Swedish police, the arrest of the original founders and the taking down of the site from its original domain in 20. Winston has shared a chart that maps out the amount of data added to the site over time. Of this staggering amount of data available via torrent files on the site, more than 2.5 petabytes are still active – or “seeded” to use the terminology of most torrent clients. In total, more than 6.7 petabytes has been uploaded to the Pirate Bay. But believe it or not, it’s a small slither of the total data available through the popular torrent repository. More than half of these torrent files are still actively being shared and downloaded across the Pirate Bay website right now. According to Winston, uploaded torrents linked to an unimaginable 776 terabytes of data in 2019 alone.

The pirate beach unblocked