{"id":2348,"date":"2008-04-16T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2008-04-16T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:36:52","slug":"the-pirate-bay-becomes-freedom-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/04\/16\/the-pirate-bay-becomes-freedom-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate Bay becomes Freedom Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s probably frowned on in certain quarters to support an outfit like The Pirate Bay<\/a>, the law-flouting group of Swedish hackers that has become one of the world’s leading sources of links BitTorrent files. But I can’t help but admire their willingness to thumb their noses at the forces of authority — especially their latest move<\/a>, which is to provide a kind of WordPress blog-hosting service for people who want to say whatever they wish, without fear of legal reprisals or takedown notices.<\/p>\n

In addition to providing a Torrent tracker that links to terabytes worth of copyright-infringing material — something for which they are currently fighting a legal battle with the record industry and the movie industry — The Pirate Bay is now offering an image-hosting service<\/a> with virtually no restrictions, the new blog-hosting service, and is also reportedly working on a video-hosting service<\/a> as well, according to TorrentFreak. On top of that, Pirate Bay ringleader BrokeP is also working on a music-sharing service that will allow fans to compensate artists directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other words, The Pirate Bay seems to be turning into a one-stop shopping centre for either piracy and lawlessness or freedom of speech and the distribution of content, depending on how you look at it. But I still wish that the pirates would go ahead and buy Sealand<\/a> — I’d love to have some Pirate Bay currency or a Pirate Bay passport.<\/p>\n

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It’s probably frowned on in certain quarters to support an outfit like The Pirate Bay, the law-flouting group of Swedish hackers that has become one of the world’s leading sources of links BitTorrent files. But I can’t help but admire their willingness to thumb their noses at the forces of authority — especially their latest … <\/p>\n

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