TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard Page #2

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We've probably made a lot of money,

but the site costs a lot, too.

Hi. Okay, we're coming down. Bye.

-Let's eat.

-Okay. Nothing vegetarian.

Aren't you working on the site

we're on trial for while in court?

The pirated Depeche Mode CD

I have in my laptop is even funnier.

He'll open in 5 minutes.

How the hell can prosecutor Roswall

mix up megabit and megabyte?

Generally speaking, for storage you use byte and

when you measure speed you use bit.

It all started with Gottfrid's site

"America's Dumbest Soldiers".

It was a site

where you could rate from 1 to 10.

It was American soldiers

who died in the first Iraq war.

Then you could rate

how stupid they were-

-depending on

how silly their deaths were.

Neither the American government nor

anybody else appreciated the site.

I had a spare line

which I let him use for the site.

It was from British Telecom.

Someone at the US State Department

called the head of British Telecom.

He called the head of the operator

in Sweden where I worked.

So the US government ordered us

to remove the site.

We fought them for a long time

before we removed it.

We argued that it was

freedom of speech and parody.

After a while we closed it down,

when it became too much of a fuss.

Two months later Gottfrid needed

more bandwidth for the Pirate Bay.

I still had that line available.

We used it for the Pirate Bay.

Hearing with the defendant Peter

Sunde. The prosecution may begin.

Is it true that among

the Pirate Bay computers-

-you stored one that you owned?

I bought a computer

that I gave to the Pirate Bureau.

What is the Pirate Bureau?

It's an organization

that discusses the internet.

Is copyright and file sharing

discussed on their website?

Probably.

And they are critical to

the way copyright works today?

I'm not sure about that.

People have different views.

What's your opinion?

It's hard to say.

I think it's problematic.

In what way?

The fact that we're here today

shows that there is a problem.

First of all, I don't believe-

-that young people today

believe that copyright is wrong.

I think that's a myth.

This Kopimi Sect-

-has been really good

at promoting it.

It's so f***ing beautiful!

We've changed it a bit.

So the question

in the newspaper was:

"If the Pirate Bay gets convicted,

won't they become martyrs?"

Monique said:

"No, they don't have any followers."

"However, they do have a small

Kopimi sect following them".

So sweet. That's us!

The Pirate Bureau came into

existence in the summer of 2003.

It was at the same time-

-as the record industry

sued Napster in the US-

-and the medical industry sued South

Africa for copying HIV-medicine.

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