Interview with Peter Sunde - The "creator" of
ThePirateBay on CeBIT 2011
Many people are using ThePiratebay to get all kind of data
and share Movies, Games, Programs etc.)
ThePirateBay has become like a standard media for file sharing and
still not many people are aware of who is behind
ThePirateBay.
This is why I thought, by posting this article I can "rant" on the
existence of the Swedish Pirate Party The Pirate Party - Is a party fighting on behalf of
information sharing freedom (or in other words a party fighting for
our freedom as individuals in the digital era).
Pirate Party (Sweden) party official mascot
The Pirate party are swedish political party established in 2006,
its members are activists lobbying on freedom of information as
well as pointing at threats to our human freedoms imposed by new
legislations and anti-freedom agreements like the recent ACTA
treaty.
Since there creation in 2006, they have grown from a local Swedish
party to an international party, locally existing in 33
countries arount the world. The ideology behind the Swedish
PirateParty as well as the rest of existing Pirate Parties
international is as I prior said Freedom of Information on the
internet. PP is a party phenomenon, as they are neither a left or a
right oriented party (on the traditional left-right scale). PP are
independent bloc pursuing their political agenda colabborating with
all mainstream parties, which stand behind the ideologies the party
fights for.
After last European Parliament elections, PP received 7% of all
Swedish votes for a country EU representative.
As of today according to Wikipedia , the party holds 2 EU deputee seats in EU
parliament.
I've a friend who is taking membership in the Pirate Party and from
him I know the PP party are big supporters of Free
Software.
One major key figure part of Pirate Party is the swedish Peter
Sunde. He is a front person who is behind ThePirateBay project as
well as holds a very interesting revolutionary ideas. Many of his
ideas are close to "the father of all free software" - Richard
Mathew Stallman (RMS). Therefore the PP would be probably of
interest to anyone who is interested in Free Software. Here is an
interview with Peter Sunde's taken in Cebit 2011:
As long as I know the Pirate Party are along the only few
organizations in the whole world, who are trying to fight on behalf
of human freedom.I'll be glad to hear if someone know about other
ornigazations apart from Pirate Party the Free Software
Foundation - (FSF) lobbying on present worsening conditions of
invidual human freedom.
Here is few curious facts proving how BIG and important
thepiratebay.org</> is, the text below is again quote from
Wikipedia
Currently ThePirateBay.org is ranked as the 80th most visited
website in the world and 20th in Sweden by Alexa Internet, has over
5.5 million registered users and, as of February 2012, hosts more
than 4 million torrent files.
According to the Los Angeles Times, The Pirate Bay is "one of the
world's largest facilitators of illegal downloading" and "the most
visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright or
pro-piracy movement"