An anti-piracy music website was hacked and turned into a Pirate Bay proxy, allowing users to illegally stream music. Earlier, the site owner sought a blocking injunction against the torrent platform.

The hacking victim is the music industry group CAPIF (Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers), who crossed swords with Pirate Bay seeking to block illegal music downloads through court injunctions. Some 24 hours before the organization’s website was defaced, 11 ISPs were required to block 256 different Pirate Bay IP addresses as a result of their actions.



The revenge was swift and anonymous. When a day later users tried to access CAPIF online, they were greeted with the iconic brown galleon bearing the “Home Taping Is Killing Music” cassette-and-crossbones flag – and welcomed into music torrenting.

The Pirate Bay proxy was in place for some 10 hours before the site was taken offline, BitTorrent website reported.



TorrentFreak noted that the act of rebellion was significant, as all blocked Argentinian Pirate Bay users will now be aware of the potential of using a reverse proxy.



The Pirate Bay is renowned for providing access to free music, video games, software, and films and has been repeatedly targeted by the industry on a global level. Some 19 European countries have completely blocked access, including the UK, Denmark, Norway and Italy, and among them on a global level are Iran and India.



Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg – aka anakata – was arrested in Cambodia in 2012 and after a stint in jail in Sweden was extradited to Denmark in November 2013, and charged with infiltrating various Danish databases.



Since Sweden extradited him to Denmark he has been kept in solitary confinement his mother describes as “torture.”



At the beginning of June, The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested in Sweden after being on the run for nearly two years. He was facing an outstanding sentence of eight months in prison and a large fine for copyright violations.