TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard Page #5

---

It's like a constant tactical game

with different weapons.

When we realized that

the Pirate Bay was down-

-we looked around,

because we always have backups.

Then I realized that the Pirate Party

had registered their own ISP.

The Pirate Party works for reformed

copyright laws, an open internet-

-and free access to culture.

I realized that if we're hosted

by the Pirate Party-

-it means that if someone closes them

down, they're closing down the party.

That means closing down a party

that represents Sweden in the EU.

That would be political censorship

on the highest level.

If you're hosted by the Pirate Party

you get political protection.

You could say that you get

diplomatic immunity.

After days of speculation "Rapport"

can now reveal that the Pirate Party-

-takes over the responsibility for

the security of WikiLeaks' servers.

WikiLeaks or the Pirate Party copied

what they had done with TPB.

Giving WikiLeaks protection

by a political party-

-by sharing

the same internet connection.

Every leak on WikiLeaks has been released on

TPB since there is no censorship there.

Gottfrid is good at tech stuff

and encryption-

-and he's worked on

many important projects.

Like "Collateral Murder"

that made WikiLeaks famous.

"Look at those dead bastards"

Julian has a lot of respect

for Gottfrid.

I remember when Gottfrid said:

"There's a new customer, WikiLeaks."

"They need help

because they're under attack."

The first time I got in contact

was when we had to pay a bill.

Because no one, and

that was a constant problem...

No one remembered

the stupid customer number.

And no one wanted to say

anything on the phone.

In 2008 I flew to Sweden

to pay the bill in cash.

Gottfrid always said he didn't

want money from WikiLeaks.

I flew there and paid for

one year and a bit in advance.

Julian was with me.

He flew in as well.

And we arranged this meeting

with Gottfrid to hand over the money.

And it was one of the

weirdest incidents in my life.

He came to the hotel and he had

someone waiting outside in a car.

And they had an agreement that

Gottfrid would be near a window.

So he stood there in this lobby.

With his long hair,

looking completely...

-Strange! F***ed up.

-And he behaved really strange.

And every 30 seconds he turned to

see if the guy in the car was there.

And Julian and I were standing

there and we basically thought-

-that we would go hang out

or something.

So we asked him if he

wanted to come up to the room.

And he was like:
"No, no, I can't."

He was turning around.

Never heard that before.

And then handing over some cash

and the guy jumped in the car-

-and they drove off

and we felt like...

That was meeting PRQ for us.

A warm welcome to Peter Sunde.

First question:
Are you a killer

that ruined the whole industry?

I would love to take credit for it but I can't.

Sorry. They did it themselves.

-There is a law case now with you.

-Just one?

I don't know how many but

some discussions going around.

You had a new idea: Flattr.

It comes from the discussions

we had during the Pirate Bay.

There were two sides. One side said

there is no problem with downloading.

The other side said they're not

making any money from the internet.

-And there was nothing happening.

-Can you explain how Flattr works?

You as a user sign up

and you put money into an account.

You decide how much

you want to spend per month.

Then you find Flattr buttons. They

look like the Facebook Like buttons.

If you click it we remember it

until the end of the month.

At the end of the month

we count your clicks-

-and we share your money equally

amongst them.

-Where is the money going?

-It's going to the creators.

That's the whole concept.

The trial in the Court of Appeal

against the Pirate Bay began today.

Let's shake hands today again.

-It's a sick team, right?

-I'm soaking wet.

To rent a car costs $400 per week.

I bought that one for $600.

I'll use it for 6 weeks.

-Is it legal?

-Sure. I've even paid the taxes.

I don't really care about parking

tickets - I have a $7 million debt.

The Court of Appeal, please.

-Is Gottfrid coming?

-I highly doubt that.

-Unless he teleports himself.

-Okay.

He wrote this morning that he's hospitalized

with a parasite infection in Cambodia.

So yes, it's highly unlikely

that he'll come.

-Do you have any other trials?

-The civil cases.

-The penalty fine stuff.

-How many are they?

One in Italy, one in Holland...

One in Denmark that we're not

summoned to, and one in Norway.

Kuwait, Ireland. Anything else?

What is the most important?

I believe it's very important to look

at how our society ought to be.

Not just rule so that big companies

can make a bigger profit.

How does this feel? 8 days to go.

It's boring

that we're just watching video.

You wanted to speak for yourself

but weren't allowed to, right?

I think the new court system

is really bad.

You can't introduce new material.

We don't even need to be in court.

They could just take the old material

and rule from that.

Hey, thanks for coming!

-How are you?

-I'm really sick.

Then why the hell

are you shaking my hand?

-He's also sick.

-What's wrong with you?

I have a cold and an eye infection.

I didn't sleep at all last night.

I just got an SMS

from Gottfrid's mother.

She wrote that he is still

in Cambodia.

She said that he is really ill.

He's had problems before as well.

When you look at him, health

isn't the first thing you think of.

-What are you working with today?

-I run websites.

In Cambodia or Thailand?

With the internet you can work anywhere

as long as you have Internet access.

State prosecutor Roswall accused

the defendants of contempt-

-since they have continued

to run the site after the verdict.

He wants the one year imprisonment

for all four to be affirmed.

The tunnel computer is located in

Pionen with the Pirate Party.

Pionen is a show-off in Apple style.

The tunnel computer is the entrance

from the internet to the Pirate Bay.

Then everything happens

in the background somewhere.

On the real servers,

that are hidden.

Right now we're on our way

to the real mountain.

That's an expensive table.

-6 cores?

-12 cores.

Here. The Pirate Bay.

And that's all.

We run an efficient ship.

Where are the people

who run the Pirate Bay based now?

I don't know. Ask the Pirate Party,

they are hosting the bandwidth.

But it has changed owners after

we passed it on, too. Once or twice.

We miss the support from the

Pirate Party in the District Court.

-With buses and stuff.

-The buses were the Pirate Bureau.

Was it the Pirate Bureau?

With trumpets and flags and stuff.

It feels like they

have forgotten about us.

The pirate movement's idea

to fight for free file sharing-

-just isn't accepted anymore.

It was just a little fad.

I never thought it would survive.

-I don't want them.

-You don't have to sign them.

But by law you have been served.

What does that mean?

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes