Principality of Pirate Bay?
p2pnet.net News:- Last Friday we had the privilege of exchanging a few words with the Chief of the Bureau of Internal Affairs of the Principality of Sealand, situated off the coast of Britain.
You know – the island The Pirate Bay said it wanted to use to get around irksome copyrights?
“Are negotiations in hand?” – we’d asked, and after wishing us well for the New Year, “The piratebay initiative is wholly unconnected with us here and with any inward investment applications which we are presently considering,” said the Chief.
Now, professor Robin Churchill, a lecturer in constitutional and international law at Dundee University in Scotland, states Sealand’s 1967 claim to sovereignty is absurd, says Out-Law.com.
“It is within 12 miles of the coast of Britain and in 1987 the UK extended its territorial waters to 12 miles,” the story has him saying. “That means that UK law applies, including the law of copyright, which could be extended to Sealand without any legal problems whatsoever.”.
And Spanish estate agent InmoNaranja acting for Sealand says, “We might not be able to sell to them, since one of the conditions imposed by the actual occupants of Sealand is that none of the activities to be carried out on Sealand should be an action against the UK, and potentially this group does not comply with this condition,” according to the story, which adds:
“The final decision lies with the current representatives of Sealand at the time of seeing the purchaser’s proposal.”
Also See:
irksome copyrights – The Pirate Bay eyes Sealand, January 12, 2007
Out-Law.com – Piratebay’s sovereign ambitions blasted, January 17, 2007
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January 18th, 2007 at 4:08 am
The place TPB gets should be in international waters, without ambiguity
January 18th, 2007 at 9:20 am
A country can’t just ‘extend it’s borders’ around another country. When Sealand was claimed in the 60’s, it was not within UK territory. In 1987 when the UK extended it’s territory to 12 miles off-shore, there were exceptions that any other countries within that 12 mile range are entitled to half the water territory, therefore the border between Sealand and the UK is HALF THE DISTANCE over the water between the two countries. This was litigated already in the late 80s, but I suppose someone that writes for such a cheezy web-site wouldn’t bother to research that… hot-air and no facts is the norm these days. No time for research or cites either of course.