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The Pirate Bay, one of the largest and most famous piracy sites on the Web for illegally downloading copyrighted material, has been in a constant game of cat and mouse with legal authorities from around the globe for the past decade. Government agencies have often tried to shut the site down, or thwart people from reaching it — because people use it to download movies, music, digital books and other intellectual property — only to see the site retaliate with new doorways for people to access its wares.

On Saturday people involved with the Pirate Bay did this again, announcing that the group is releasing a free Web browser, called PirateBrowser, that will allow people in countries where the Pirate Bay is currently blocked to still reach its hundreds of thousands of illegal torrent files.

The Pirate Bay told its users about the new browser in a blog post titled, “PirateBrowser — No more censorship!”

“Do you know any people who can’t access [the Pirate Bay] or other torrents-sites because they are blocked?” wrote an administrator of the Pirate Bay who goes by the online name Winston. “Recommend PirateBrowser to them. It’s a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible.”

According to the PirateBrowser Web site, the Pirate Bay is currently censored in Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland. People who use this new Web browser will be able to get around current restrictions.

The browser, which is being released in conjunction with the group’s 10-year anniversary, joins a version of Firefox, the open source Web browser, and a Tor client, the anonymous Web client. Unlike Tor, however, PirateBrowser does not provide anonymity to its users.

The Pirate Bay gives people access to BitTorrent files, which are larger files that are cut up into many little pieces, to make it easier to share across the Web. As soon as a user has downloaded a piece of a BitTorrent file, they immediately start uploading that piece to other users. BitTorrent Web sites, like the Pirate Bay, can point people to large movie and TV show files without having to host them on a server.

In an interview with the Web site TorrentFreak, which covers copyright and torrents, the Pirate Bay said the new browser is just the first step in its effort to fight web censorship. The group is “also working on a special BitTorrent-powered browser, which lets users store and distribute the Pirate Bay and other Web sites on their own.”

In recent years authorities in a number of countries have won injunctions against the Pirate Bay and blocked people from reaching the site. Last year, in retaliation, the Pirate Bay wrapped up the code that runs its entire Web site and released a downloadable file for anyone to copy and install their own torrent distribution site on a server.

The Pirate Bay has also explored other options for subverting government regulations. In 2012 a Pirate Bay collaborator who goes by the online name Mr. Spock announced that the group one day hopes to build drones that would float in the air and allow people to download illegal movies and music through wireless radio transmitters.