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They were also referred to as “helpers” and served as sort of assistants to the admins.

Blue Skull – given to the website’s most invaluable “front liners” who helped keep it safe from fake files, spam, malware, and child pornography.

The administrators and moderators of the website trust these uploaders to share and upload safe and working files on the website.

Pink Skull – given to trusted and verified uploaders.

Green Skull – these are given to VIPs or users who have been sharing safe and high-quality torrent files for a long time and with unwavering consistency.

Each color represents a different status or membership class: Users have different colored skulls displayed next to their names on the website. Millions of files are available on the Pirate Bay’s database and they use a “Skull” system to identify files uploaded by trusted users. But just like it had done so many times before, the website once again survived and returned on Januwith a phoenix logo symbolizing it had risen from the ashes.

The company’s premises in Stockholm were raided by police in December 2014 wherein several of their computers and equipment were seized, thus resulting in The Pirate Bay, along with several other file sharing sites, going offline around this time. It is also one of the oldest torrent sites on the internet and has gone through several seizures and domain shut downs only to re-emerge under each time under a new web address or domain name. This website was founded in 2003 by Piratbryan – a Swedish thinktank-making it the oldest website on this list. Arguably the most popular torrenting site on the planet.