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"Breaking news this weekend arriving from the scalawag collective at The Pirate Bay: Torrents are super popular!\nMore popular than ever, in fact. The Pirate Bay, in advance of a potentially messy bout with a prosecutor who plans this week to \u201Cpress charges against 5 people\u201D involved with the website, has taken the time to let the world know that all is good, well, still unsanctioned, and growing in the BitTorrent realm.\nErnesto of TorrentFreak reported Sunday morning that the rebellious website had broken the barrier to 1m torrents in total. It has also now tracking some 10 million users/peers roaming to and fro its well-renowned link farm.\nA round of applause for those industrious Swedes. Cue \u201CBeautiful Day.\u201D It\u2019s only fitting that we take a moment to celebrate these milestones.\nOf course there\u2019s vociferous opposition to the entire concept of The Pirate Bay. Film and music recording companies have spent month after month, season after season in repeated attempts to remove the poster child (we\u2019d say \u201Cposter pirate,\u201D but we fear that\u2019d be a tad too kitschy) from its technological life support system \u2013 if not its public support system as well.\nBut The Pirate Bay has paid no heed to authorities. And while we can\u2019t offer our express backing to this phenomenon loved (and hated) the world over, we certainly must admit that the site\u2019s ability to remain resilient as an anti-establishment force through its shameless exploitation of legal loopholes is thoroughly impressive.\nThe Pirate Bay has become a sort of tabloid pleaser \u2013 albeit a worthwhile focus, as opposed to the faces of LA - that most all of us are absolutely transfixed by. So cheer them on we do, and will continue to in the weeks and months to come. Here\u2019s to an ever more sensational \u201908."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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