The Pirate Bay (often abbreviate TPB) is a website that bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" and also serves as an index for .torrent files that it tracks. ThePirateBay.org ranked 97 (as of 10 May 2008) in the Alexa ranking list and ranked 258 (as of 1 February 2008) by Quantcast. Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån ('The Piracy Bureau'), it has been operating as a separate organization since October 2004. The site is currently run by Gottfrid Svartholm ("anakata"), Fredrik Neij ("TiAMO") and Peter Sunde ("brokep").