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nouseforaname
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| Quote: | Internet piracy site in bid for own island to beat copyright laws
Fri Jan 12, 12:12 PM ET
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for the illegal downloading of films through filesharing, has said it wanted to buy its own island in a bid to avoid copyright laws.
"It's not only about Pirate Bay, it's more about having a nation with no copyright laws," one of those behind the site, who gave his name only as Peter, told AFP Friday.
The group said it would consider any territory in international waters to avoid copyright legislation.
"For Pirate Bay it would be awesome to have no copyright law. All countries today are based on the old economy and old ideas and we want to do something new," he added.
On Friday the group established a website -- www.buysealand.com -- as a discussion forum and to raise funds to buy Sealand, a former British naval platform and self-proclaimed principality six miles (10 kilometres) off the eastern coast of Britain.
No country recognises Sealand.
"We would love Sealand because its history is perfect for us as pirate radio used to be broadcast from there. If we don't get enough money for Sealand we are going to try for a small island somewhere," Peter said.
Pirate Bay was undeterred by Sealand's two-billion-dollar price tag.
The amount was a "show price," Peter said. "We would love to move there and move all our servers there."
The Pirate Bay site -- www.thepiratebay.org -- was shut down by Swedish police in May 2006. The site then reopened using servers in The Netherlands before returning to Sweden in June.
The Pirate Bay provides instructions on how to share music and film files using links offered on the site and attracts some 1.5 million users throughout the world everyday.
In 2005 the Scandinavian country passed a law banning the sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet without payment of royalties, in a bid to crack down on free downloading of music, films and computer games.
Filesharing in Sweden carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/tc_afp/swedeninternetpiracy_070112171207
they're talking about this place btw, not much of an 'island' 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand
so do you think this will actually work? I don't 
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 09:14 Post subject: |
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There is an international zone. I don't think it would work.
If you want to check out islands to buy (Canada) to but you can go here http://www.mls.ca
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X_Dror
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 09:42 Post subject: |
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Bill Gates will build an army to bomb the hell out of this pile of metal.
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 10:21 Post subject: |
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Hey man its like Australia all over again.
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 10:26 Post subject: |
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I don't think the FBI would have any problems capturing a bunch of nerds on a platform, let alone an island. 
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Ankh
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 10:43 Post subject: |
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CIA or whatever, point is they won't be immune to getting jailtime if they are moving to a desolate island.
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 11:22 Post subject: |
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Well, Iraq isn't under United States jurisdiction and looks what happening there.
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Ankh
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 11:53 Post subject: |
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How they gonna get fibre to the island? Or will it have satellite internets? How will it work?
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Ankh
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 12:38 Post subject: |
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Brave lads I must say. Going against the world like that.
Though, USA just sends AC-130 and gets the job done.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 14:28 Post subject: |
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Clevesa in wrong thread shocker.
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 14:32 Post subject: |
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| Jenni wrote: | | Clevesa in wrong thread shocker. |
No I'm not. I was referring to the guys behind pirate bay as "lads" and if USA wants to shut them down they can just send an AC-130, like they did in Somalia.
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Jan 2007 14:55 Post subject: |
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| pistolshrimp wrote: | There is an international zone. I don't think it would work.
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what do you mean with this? it doesnt make sense. almost each country with a coast is surrounded by international water.
sealand is totally independent! though you cant begin a real community over there. but something like a way to avoid copyrights should work. it has been a pirate radio broadcaster in the past.
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Jan 2007 13:17 Post subject: |
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i bought sealand. now get the fuck outta my property you bitchez
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