PC Pals Forum

Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on January 12, 2007, 14:52

Title: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: Clive on January 12, 2007, 14:52: Notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own country and turn it into a copyright-free piracy paradise.

Currently based in Sweden, The Pirate Bay uses BitTorrent technology to let visitors share videos, games, software and music -mostly without each work's copyright holder's permission.

This week it launched Buy Sealand, a campaign to buy the former World War 2 gun platform now known as the Principality of Sealand, located six miles from the UK coast.

The island is reportedly for sale after its infrastructure was badly damaged by fire in summer 2006.

The Pirate Bay plans to fund the £100 million sale through donations from users who will automatically become citizens of the principality.

"It should be a great place for everybody, with high-speed Internets [sic] access, no copyright laws and VIP accounts to The Pirate Bay," the group said in a statement on the buysealand.com website.

If the bid for Sealand fails, The Pirate Bay plans to look elsewhere. "We will try to buy another small island somwhere [sic] and claim it as our own country," it stated.

The Pirate Bay is under pressure from the US government, and was raided by Swedish police last year. However attempts to close the site have so far failed.

www.buysealand.com
www.sealandgov.org
Title: Re: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: Mohux on January 12, 2007, 17:01: Quote from: Clive
......... This week it launched Buy Sealand, a campaign to buy the former World War 2 gun platform now known as the Principality of Sealand, located six miles from the UK coast.

Tell 'em to travel the other 6 miles!! :woot: They should get it cheap, and they'd do us all a favour! ::)
Title: Re: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: Simon on January 12, 2007, 17:39: :lol:
Title: Re: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: TR on January 12, 2007, 19:44: Quote from: Clive on January 12, 2007, 14:52
Notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own country and turn it into a copyright-free piracy paradise.

If the bid for Sealand fails, The Pirate Bay plans to look elsewhere. "We will try to buy another small island somwhere [sic] and claim it as our own country," it stated.

Hate to tell you guys but Sealand is not an Island ;D and is visible from the beach at Felixstowe

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv489%2Fhook7%2Fsealand-external-behind.jpg&hash=84d1ec5f0d5f0181d3ca5af07c388db8894604cc)
Title: Re: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: Clive on January 12, 2007, 23:22: Nice find Terry! :D
Title: Re: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: sam on January 13, 2007, 09:53: i can see the rackmounts now... :-)
Title: Re: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: Michelle on January 15, 2007, 22:10: Very interesting that, theres a whole page about that "island" on wikipedia.......

And its got its own website. http://www.sealandgov.org/
Title: Re: Pirate Bay to buy country
Post by: Reno on January 18, 2007, 08:07: I saw this on another forum i visit. Everyone pretty much thought 2 billion was a bit steep. You could buy any number of lslands out in the Caribbean for just a 10th of the price. A island in the caribbean would come with a beach and a hotel. Beats the crap out of some little shack off the coast of the UK.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/tc_afp/swedeninternetpiracy_070112171207