The Pirate Bay shutdown: the whole story (so far)

For the past decade, if you wanted to download copyrighted material and didn’t want to pay for it, it’s likely you turned to The Pirate Bay. Up until a police raid took it offline last week, it was the most popular place to grab Sunday’s episode of The Newsroom or Gone Girl months before the Blu-ray hits stores. You didn’t have to log in to some arcane message board or know someone to get an invite -- the anonymous file-sharing site was open to everybody and made piracy as simple as a Google search. That’s what scared Hollywood.