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The International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of lawmakers that works closely with the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and a lobbying group for the software industry, named six Web sites that have made themselves infamous for being "overwhelmingly used for the global exchange of illegal movies, music and other copyrighted works.

The sites were listed in alphabetical order according to the name of their country but there's little question which site would be the entertainment industry's public enemy No. The Pirate Bay is among the oldest and most popular of any of the sites listed, but the film and music industries say the site has cost them millions in lost revenue and thousands of jobs. They say The Pirate Bay and the other five sites listed are nothing but outlaws that line their pockets with money that rightfully belongs to filmmakers, actors, musicians, songwriters, and lots of other creators.

Nonetheless, the site's operators have successfully fended off numerous attempts by copyright owners, and authorities in Sweden and the United States to shut it down.

On Monday, The Pirate Bay went dark after German authorities pressured the company's former Internet host to cut off service. As it has done on at least two other occasions, The Pirate Bay on Tuesday re-emerged to the digital cheers from file sharers.

It was J. Circulated to the media, the list would feature the people who agency leaders considered the biggest threat to the public. It has been a staple of crime fighting for decades and a successful TV show was modeled after it. Besides the new list of notorious Web sites, the congressional group released its list of countries with inadequate intellectual-property protections: China, Russia, Mexico, Canada, and Spain.

The Pirate Bay, for example, was the 72nd most visited website in the world in October The RIAA also mentioned the growing bitcoin currency as a service contributing to copyright violation.

Bitcoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer currency transacted using secure digital wallets, and is thus very difficult for law enforcement to track. Seizing this opportunity, users have kept The Pirate Bay afloat by donating bitcoin to the site. The convicted individuals claim the site is owned by a company based in the Seychelles, although no evidence has been provided. In May , the site also started accepting Litecoin, another peer-to-peer based internet currency.

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