Topic: Pirate Bay to buy country

[Clive]

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

[Mohux]

......... 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!!  They should get it cheap, and they'd do us all a favour! 

[Simon]

[TR]

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  and is visible from the beach at Felixstowe

[Clive]

Nice find Terry!   

[sam]

i can see the rackmounts now... :-)

[Michelle]

Very interesting that, theres a whole page about that "island" on wikipedia.......

And its got its own website. http://www.sealandgov.org/

[Reno]

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