TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard Page #6

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It's a co-location company.

-How was that received?

-With standing ovations.

It's a pleasure to announce

that the Pirate Bay is back online!

In your face, Hollywood!

-Peter!

-Yes? I'll be there soon!

That's how you have treated me. I get

letters from your lawyers saying:

"Swedish law cannot protect you.

US law will get you".

You put private detectives on us.

I've had two outside my house.

-I know nothing about that.

-But it's your responsibility.

It could have been the film industry.

-No, it was the music industry.

-Ok.

TPB isn't interested

in music and movies.

TPB is a generic medium for

distribution of all types of files.

People shouldn't say that TPB only is about

spreading illegal movies and music.

Then your world is this small.

It's your loss.

Instead we could say

that file sharing is good.

Then we could focus on ways

to let artists make money.

-We think file sharing is good.

-Sure, but you sue everyone.

No. We don't want

to prosecute anyone.

We just want people in Sweden

to start respecting copyright laws.

What was the purpose of

the Pirate Bay in your opinion?

We never spoke about purposes.

If it was about reforming laws

or if it was about-

-hatred against some Americans.

I don't know their purpose.

But for Fredrik, and it was

Fredrik I was dealing with-

-the purpose was to make it

a big site. The biggest site in the world.

From my point of view I liked the

idea of the world's biggest site.

-How is the Pirate Bay financed?

-How the website is financed?

We have ads on the site

that generate money.

A guy called Lundstrm

helped you financially, didn't he?

Yes, we we're sponsored

by a company called Rix Telecom.

-What was his purpose?

-Free advertising for his company.

Carl Lundstrm is an interesting guy.

He's behind

many right-wing organizations.

Carl Lundstrm

has apparently given money to...

Answer the question!

Did he represent these organizations?

It really bugs me-

-that everybody looks at us

as right-wing extremists.

It makes me really hurt and angry.

My brother is a convicted anarchist.

He's been in court,

defending his opinions.

We've both been on

a neo-Nazi organization's hit list.

It feels strange to be accused of

founding that neo-Nazi organization.

It's really hard.

I can only stand behind

my own politics.

When you have some influence

and people listen to you-

-you should use that position

to do something good.

When did you become

the Pirate Bay's spokesperson?

Well, it's not an official title, but

a function that has been given to me.

Nobody wanted to do that part,

but it was important to communicate-

-that the Pirate Bay

was doing something important.

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