The Pirate Bay stays in Sweden
p2pnet.net news:- The Pirate Bay isn’t going offshore after all.
Well, no more than it is already ;P
It’s bid for Sealand having failed, TPB has decided to to stay put in Sweden, says The Local.
“We have given that up now,” Tobias Andersson, one of the Pirate Bay’s six Stockholm-based operators, is quoted as saying.
“We e-mailed them initially to see if they were interested and they didn’t know who we were. Then journalists began calling them and the Sealand people finally came out and said that they were opposed to internet piracy.
“The funny thing is, they ran a pirate radio station in the eighties. We tried to tell them that what we were doing was just a modern version of pirate radio.”
And it seems Hollywood figured in the decision.
“One of the Sealand people has written a book that is going to be turned into a Hollywood movie,” stated Andersson. “A deal with us could have jeopardised that arrangement.”
In January, “The piratebay initiative is wholly unconnected with us here and with any inward investment applications which we are presently considering,” a Sealands spokesman told p2pnet.
(Thanks, Tom)
Also See:
The Local – Pirate Bay staying in Sweden, February 22, 2007
told p2pnet – Principality of Pirate Bay?, January 17, 2007
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February 22nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
It doesn’t matter. Apparently no other country recognizes Sealand as an independent nation anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand