The Pirate Bay to launch dedicated music sharing project in April

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Notorious torrent site The Pirate Bay is working on new dedicated music sharing project, entitled “The Music Bay”, which will instill further fear into the heart of the phonographic industry. The Pirate Bay is currently used by millions to facilitate sharing of (mostly pirated) music, movies, and software.

In 2009 however, incumbent Irish ISP Eircom famously complied with an Order from the High Court on request from the four major records labels to block access to the site.

The domain themusicbay.org was first registered in February 2007 but has lay relatively dormant since then. However, recently the sub-domain fear.themusicbay.org has been activated. The page itself is blank but the page title reads “coming soon”. Interestingly, themusicbay.org is also blocked by Eircom, but the new sub-domain fear.themusicbay.org is freely accessible.

According to TorrentFreak a Pirate Bay insider stated to them:

“The music industry can’t even imagine what we’re planning to roll out in the coming months. For years they’ve complained bitterly about piracy, but if they ever had a reason to be scared it is now.

“It will be a special surprise for IFPI’s 78th birthday, and we’re thinking of organizing a huge festival in Rome where IFPI was founded.”

IFPA is a acronym for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry – active piracy adversaries of The Pirate Bay. Since their 78th anniversary will fall this April, we expect The Music Bay to launch in conjunction with the event, or at the very least release further details about the project.

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