{"id":118977,"date":"2017-07-10T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118977"},"modified":"2017-07-10T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T07:51:25","slug":"the-pirate-bay-is-one-the-worlds-top-100-popular-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/118977-the-pirate-bay-is-one-the-worlds-top-100-popular-websites","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Bay is one the world&#8217;s top 100 popular websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirate Bay has re-entered Alexa\u2019s list of the top 100 websites,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/pirate-bay-re-enters-list-of-100-most-popular-sites-on-the-internet-170708\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/115519-the-pirate-bay-down-after-raid.html\">Following a raid<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Swedish police in 2014, the site suffered more than a month of downtime and its regular visitors went to sites such as KickassTorrents.<\/p>\n<p>After coming back online, The Pirate Bay had been supplanted as the world\u2019s most popular torrent site.<\/p>\n<p>However, crackdowns on torrent sites, including the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/215872-alleged-owner-of-kickasstorrents-considering-surrender-to-us.html\">arrest of alleged KickassTorrents operator<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Artem Vaulin, resulted in several sites shutting down voluntarily to avoid prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>By the start of 2017, The Pirate Bay had become the world\u2019s most popular torrent site again, and for the first time in three years it has broken back into Alexa\u2019s top 100.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/216336-us-embassy-threatens-to-shut-down-domain-registry-over-the-pirate-bay.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">US embassy threatens to shut down domain registry over The Pirate Bay<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirate Bay has re-entered Alexa\u2019s list of the top 100 websites,\u00a0TorrentFreak reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":91941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19631,2440,8305],"class_list":["post-118977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-alexa","tag-the-pirate-bay","tag-torrentfreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118979,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118977\/revisions\/118979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}