Internet piracy site in bid for own island to beat copyright laws

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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.

kjaonline

lol nice.. well some countries does not have strong laws about piracy and has lots of loop holes too..
[SIZE=2]Very funny and amusing.. lol[/SIZE]

cabron

Actually i think it would start a move-mania thruout the piracy websites cuz all will move their headquaters on that island

nioton

also there are countries that have no copyright law at all

isn't it good to haveno copyright?

well,
better to say that I people should accept the laws.

cabron

WHat countries don't have copyright laws?

Athenrad

Wow, that would be awesome if it happened, im surprised its not all over the news ... Think its gonna happen is the question? I think it will ... but it will fall back on them.

meheheh

If they bought that island though, British ISPs could refuse to provide service to them. What would they do then?

Sava

I think they can make their own ISP if they buy an island. Anyway ... copyrights should be maintained ... I totally disagree with their ideea

meheheh

I don't really know what to say. While it would be a blow to copyright laws worldwide, it would be interesting to say the least.

cabron

It would be more than a blow....everybody would be able to download just about everything legaly