As far as websites go, the Pirate Bay is nothing to gawk at. The peer-to-peer file sharing site is pure function, no fuss. You want Adobe Photoshop for free? You go to Pirate Bay, usually on your desktop or laptop.
But you no longer have to feel chained to a computer interface as Pirate Bay just launched a new site for mobile users: Mobile Bay.
Pirate Bay has undergone a lot of changes in the last several years. After a raid in 2006, the company has emerged strong. Last year marked the pirate group’s 10th anniversary.
The raid brought publicity to Pirate Bay, and it has since gone on to make a lot of different products — like the PirateBrowser, which enables users to access government blocked sites. When it launched, the PirateBrowser was downloaded 100,000 times in three days.
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The much easier to use (or at least to see) Mobile Bay will exist alongside the regular Pirate Bay site, and redirect to the new domain automatically when users try to access the site on their phone, reports Torrent Freak.
But that’s just the beginning. Pirate Bay is reportedly looking to find more ways to keep its pirated-content operations going. Television, movies, and music will get dedicated sites so that you can see an organized list of all episodes in a show and download whole seasons. They’re also purportedly toying with an RSS feed, “RSSbay,” a personalized feed with the ability to launch torrents remotely.
Beyond making Pirate Bay more user-friendly, operating multiple websites will make the organization harder to shut down – even if one site goes down, there are still four others.
To the delight and dismay of many, The Pirate Bay will live on to spread pirated material, and this update just means the organization is exploring new ways to do it.
