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Original Message Pirate Bay accused of collecting users' IP addresses

Summary: The Pirate Bay, used by millions worldwide to file-share copyrighted content and free-for-all works alike, is accused of collecting IP addresses of its registered users.
Zack Whittaker

By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | October 5, 2012 -- 18:18 GMT (11:18 PDT)

Torrent file and Magnet link sharing site The Pirate Bay has been accused of logging potentially identifiable information about its users, including email and IP addresses.

@pokex, who describes themselves as a "rootadmin at AnonOps," named after the website thought to be used by hacking collective Anonymous, took to Twitter this week to claim the Sweden-based site kept a database of information, including data that users might not want to end up in the hands of the authorities.

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