The PirateBay WarShip

2008-02-17T11:41:00.000-08:00

Pirate Bay Captain Speaks Out on TV for the first time

"In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site."
" The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We've been here for years
and we will be here many more."
Peter Sunde : "Nobody is crying that people who used to go around selling ice to people do not have a job anymore because of the fridge "

One of the most popular online communities - ThePirateBay - is known as one of the Internet's largest file-sharing sites with free softwares,music, games, movies and books,... ... Here's a rare TV interview with Gottfrid I found on BBC.In interview with the BBC's technology programme Click last year Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde said:
"I think it's okay to copy. They get their money from so many places that the sales is just one small part."

"You could argue that this is stealing," says Rick Falkvinge, Pirate Party leader.
"The point is it doesn't matter.""If you are to enforce copyright in the digital age, where a lot of this takes place in private communications, if you are to enforce that you need to monitor all private communications, and that's not worth it to society or politically."

'Okay to copy'

The other three men facing charges are Carl Lundstrom, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg.

Legal Action On ThePirateBay

Four men who run one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in Sweden. The Pirate Bay's servers do not store copyrighted material but offer links to the download location of films, TV programs, albums and software. The website is said to have between 10 and 15 million users around the world and is supported by online advertising. Police seized computers in May 2006, temporarily shutting down the website. Prosecutor Hakan Roswall said the website was commercially exploiting copyright-protected work because it was financed through advertising revenues.

Interview @ BBC

The BBC UK Version

Preview Clip - I

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Preview Clip II

Preview Clip - I

IFPI Targeting the file-sharers

"We don't want The Pirate Bay to continue to operate in its current form just simply because of the damage that it's causing," says Jo Oliver.

Unsurprisingly, that is not a view shared by the entertainment industry, as Jo Oliver from the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry explains.
"It's just not practical to give away a creation for free," she insists. "There are people that need to be paid, who have worked on those recordings."Copyright is the mechanism and the law to make sure that that investment is rewarded and therefore that there will be more money to foster new artists, bring new content to the public.

"That's how it works."

For those not persuaded, legal action awaits. The UK music sharing site OiNK has recently been taken down as has the popular TV Links sharing site.