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People can complete all sorts of tasks with a smartphone now — order tickets, check the weather or call a taxi. Starting Thursday, people will also be able to easily steal copyrighted content on their mobile phones.

The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular sites on the web for illegally downloading copyrighted material, announced that it is releasing a mobile-centric version of its website, called The Mobile Bay.

The new site offers the The Pirate Bay’s practically limitless list of links to material, and the site’s full search capabilities, on a clean and concise layout for mobile phones. People can reach all the same content available on the desktop website, including movies, e-books, music and television shows.

While the mobile site is easy to navigate, it comes with the same sort of advertising that litters the desktop site. There are a few 1990s-style pop-ups, too.

The mobile site was first reported by TorrentFreak, a blog covering piracy and file-sharing, which noted that this was one of the biggest changes to The Pirate Bay since it opened for business over a decade ago.

The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak in an interview that the update on Thursday was the first in a series of new features that would make it easier for people to discover content. “The TV, movie and music sections on The Pirate Bay will each get their own dedicated sites,” TorrentFreak reported.

The Pirate Bay is also working on a new feature called “RSSbay,” its organizers said, which will let people create personalized RSS feeds to automatically download torrents from remote locations.

The Pirate Bay has been in a constant legal battle with authorities around the world since the site began, but the people behind the service almost always manage to stay one step ahead of government agencies.

Some media companies have acknowledged using pirating sites, including The Pirate Bay, to their benefit. Last year, a senior Netflix executive said the company used such sites to determine the genre of new shows that viewers might be interested in, and the type of shows Netflix should produce or license. Time Warner’s chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, also said that pirated content could be “a tremendous word-of-mouth thing.”

While authorities and some entertainment companies have tried to stop The Pirate Bay from growing, the site has doubled its traffic since 2011, according to internal numbers about site use that Pirate Bay organizers released this month.