TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

The documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay. Share it with the world! Support the filmmakers of this free film here www.tpbafk.tv
A film by Simon Klose

[@anjeru_]

*"Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. US law does not apply here."* That was sooo badass! Well played sir!

[@hayderimran7]

Nilhilion fuck USA in the butt..

[@Nilhilion]

hayderimran7 Well it's just how empires work, really... The British, Spanish, Romans, and all before them did pretty much the same thing, Russians are doing it too (though they care far less about PR...). And every empire after those will do it as well.

[@meialuakampinas]

Nilhilion Its 2015 Piratebay still up.....America is powerless.

[@Nilhilion]

***** I'm not defending anything. I'm only stating the obvious. The US isn't any better or worse than any other empire, past, present or future. True equality, freedom or solidarity are unobtainable. Because humans are selfish and greedy. All of us are. Those who deny that are either ignorant or hypocrites.

[@Xandermorph]

+meialuakampinas Gotta love it :D The US government is so full of delusions of grandeur when it comes to other countries, it's fucking hilarious. I remember several months ago when TPB "went down" - my friends were commenting on it, KZbinrs were commenting on it... they were all acting like it was this permanent, concrete thing. And I kept saying "give it time, it'll be back." I was the only person in my circle of friends saying that. Sure enough, barely 3 weeks went by and it was back up as if nothing had happened. I dunno how they'd forgotten that TPB has "gone down" before, numerous times. And it'll probably happen again, too!

[@clockworkcookie]

This is a ridiculous 1st world problem. These entertainment industries are still making billions off of releasing trash after trash every year, but they're suing a bunch of kids because now they're not making as many billions as before. Fuck that.

[@melaninawakened577]

They STILL make billions, the bluray sales are always better than the box office receipts. They also have Netflix and Hulu and a bunch of other pay sites. The really interesting thing about this is that if you look up the LIST OF COUNTRIES WHO BLOCK THE PIRATE BAY, the US IS NOT ONE OF THEM!!!! The scum in the media know, THEY ARE PRODUCING NOTHING BUT PROPAGANDA, you call it trash and I agree. That is why they WON'T BLOCK IT IN THE US, THEY REALIZE THAT these sites give them free PROMOTION, and MOST NEW MOVIES ARE PIRATED ON CAMERA AND LOOK CRAPPY. They don't really lose that much revenue.AND GAIN CUSTOMERS from people who won't see it in the theaters BUT WILL BUY IT ON BLUE RAY AND SUCH. Let's not forget that MOST SHEEP don't know about these kinds of sites. The Pirate Bay has only 25 million users, as opposed to the 3 billion who can buy a DVD, Blue Ray or pay/rent it on Netflix, etc... They only made a stink so the amount of people who do this is limited. BTW, I hate that a right wing racist funded TPB, but I love how they started, with the soldier site. Classic... FREEDOM OF SPEECH, with that being said,NOTICE how that website was taken down, because of harassment from the NAZI american state department, but the TPB is still active, today? I'm sorry for the length, but it's been a while since I added anything to my PRISM file at the NSA. I LOVE YOUR COMMENT, stay awake and critical thinking, and as an awakened person once said to me "GODSPEED TO THE AWAKENED", because you are correct. HOLLYWOOD PRODUCES THRASH! Be safe and stay up!

[@shakur960]

Melanin Awakened America wanting to conserve its soft power

[@kokedodedoo]

strongly agreed to your comment

[@prafullavishwakarma627]

and they don't realize the cause with which it is being famous among the generation is because of this thing, cause if everyone started paying for the past entertainment to keep up with the current well no one is that wealthy to keep up. Torrenters know what the fuck I am talking about ;)

[@elmoelmerson172]

It happens to indie developers as well, and it's no different - people don't give a shit whether that company makes billions or hundreds.

[@catherinetodd]

All these young guys continue to amaze me. Geniuses, really. I can't begin to weigh in on "right or wrong" here, but I am just amazed that young people like this can band together and work together all over the world, sharing files. Not administering torture, lying to the public, or creating more wars. Amazing, really. Makes me think the world may have a chance after all. Revolution lives!

[@shadowthrunight5911]

Thats the power of the internet. If you know a lot about computers you can do a ton

[@rydiacrystalfall3786]

The pirate bay is amazing.

[@023Stolo]

@@rydiacrystalfall3786 i still use it to this day i have years downloading albums movies games nd much more for a long time

[@madartzgraphics2019]

One dude literally wrote a very long value of the Pi. Very impressive show of dominance and intelligence.

[@OpisCossack]

Scanadanavia's last few Vikings... You know, with the balls to stand up to authotarian bullshit.

[@ramiru3264]

8 years and still the best documentary film I've ever watched

[@drownthepoor]

I think you should look up We Are Legion: The Story of Anonymous.

[@tiburc10]

Damn, you really need to watch more documentaries.

[@ChicagoMadeCmpunk]

Pirate bay is never getting closed down.

[@Repz98]

ANNND its closed.

[@TheMcal9909]

And its not.

[@TheRailwaystationist]

Well, we all saw what happened the last time they went down. Countless clones popped up, and an open-source script was created by the IsoHunt(2) guys so anyone and their mother could create TPB clones with close to zero IT knowledge. This is a war the copyright cartels can't win, but sadly, as with any war, there's a lot of money in fighting it.

[@DrillEntertainmentNetwork]

😈

[@shubhamsharma6001]

Its still there even in 2020.

[@species8472cze]

I hope when these dinosaurs die, when the new generation grows into power, these people will get the recongition they deserve. They really did sacrifice something for us, for the internet.

[@silverchaquet]

I wish so, but I think the new generation will have to fight for the power and to review the old views on the world

[@thatonescrambler]

new gen is big dumb

[@TowelPanel1852]

gen z unix user here; I think that the piratebay is something only 30yo's and above remember. I cannot remember any of my peers talking about the piratebay, so I think the bay is a lost piece of history. This documentary is exactly the catch-up that reminds me as a gen-z'er about how we take things for granted nowadays

[@kisunamayan]

hope piratebay will open again soon....god bless all TPB founder....thank you guyz

[@lostsarph]

kickass is way better than TPB anyway.

[@genoa239]

***** because you don't know how to use piratebay lol.

[@lostsarph]

genoa239 Because using TPB is rocket science right? You say that like it took you a period of time to 'learn' how to use it. I just prefer it's style, everything is more crisp and easier to read. Where the comments are actually talking about the quality of the torrent and not just "tanks for da turrent giez!"

[@genoa239]

Bravo. you're assumption skills are very sharp. believe it or not some people have a hard time using something that is quite easy for others. now that's one thing that isn't rocket science.

[@MrKristian252]

it wont..... use kickass.so

[@hitoritana]

"I am kind. And I still have my soul too"...said to the Hollywood lawyer by Peter is the best quote of the film.

[@LiEnby]

"What happens to the pirate bay if your found guilty" "nothing." and, he was right

[@maxtheo]

its still live to this day lol it goes down sometimes but it is still alive

[@WahyuLancer]

yes nothing happen til this day lol

[@drownthepoor]

@@maxtheo Remember KickassTorrents? The FBI caught up with those guys, and it went down. I remember reading the FBI agent's interview where he was talking about tracking them, and then finding them. He even knew that the servers were all running Gentoo Linux. Was an interesting article.

[@maxtheo]

@@drownthepoor Intresting! Will read more about that.

[@Falcon-gl8ll]

But it's basically full of malware now and you can download from a dozen places better than it.

[@rodolfo71828]

long live the pirate bay!!!

[@Moodboard39]

Arrhhh mating

[@DrCKP-gw7fi]

They are the real "LEGENDS" support these heroes !

[@shawheenalavi-moghaddam9601]

Filesharing was and still is the best thing about the internet. Only out-of-touch people insult The Pirate Bay. Not everyone can afford all of this media. It's not stealing if you were never gonna buy it anyway. Plus music companies rape the musicians. The musicians are usually half a million in debt after an album goes platinum, while the record company makes millions. Filesharing has been academically proven to be better for the market, and services like Flattr will allow you to spend the money you do have and give it directly to the artist. Imagine a truly independent media, where your purchases actually support creators and not the greedy investors. But torrenting is not just about downloading movies or music. It's about having access to files. This is a big picture concept. It's about having a democratic internet, with filesharing, and unhindered flow of information. "Net neutrality" is an important term to know too, if you want to understand what companies are trying to do to monetize every aspect of the internet, and what we need to do to maintain the internet as what it was made for. Start questioning why everything is so expensive, like textbooks, and realize that the world is better if information can reach everyone.

[@ilove-tv2jm]

Shawheen Alavi-Moghaddam Well said my friend.

[@literaryfirearms]

Shawheen Alavi-Moghaddam "It's not stealing if you were never gonna buy it anyway." - you literally just defined stealing

[@rydiacrystalfall3786]

well said.

[@takeoffchico2643]

Exactly look at all the rappers now

[@plastifiedmetal5682]

@@literaryfirearms depends, a judge in canada once ruled that we could hack some media legally because it wasnt available here. So definitely not stealing if dont have the possibility to buy it.

[@addeyanandy]

Poor countries like india Don't have theatrical releases of international cinema and games cost 5 times more than usa and europe, tpb always helped poor people

[@quidquopro1185]

TPB is the reason we today are able to stream video (ex Netflix) and music (ex Spotify) for a reasonable price. Personally I still break the copyright rules from time to time just to do my part in robbing Hollywood's greedy mentality

[@golovavintom4230]

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[@pygmalion8952]

i pirate hollywood movies just to seed them. i don't watch those crappy things but some other people do.

[@MangoPanic]

They were right in saying the industry had to evolve. Piracy is a service problem at the end of the day; it goes up when the services on offer are shit, and down when they're not

[@chandlerz6779]

"i consider it spam if i didn't request it in my inbox." when referring to how all copyright claims were spam.

[@kabylieindependante4902]

we are December 2019 still running : another lost war for the US & UK bureaucracy

[@cidadaoPPT]

Legends, they all are! We all owe them a lot of what we might take for granted today. There will NEVER be a time like this in the Internet ever again. This documentary will show the character of individuals - and the community around the Internet - for all future generations.

[@nate8065]

I remember hearing about this case when i was a kid, now that i understand what really happened behind the scenes I can only say i am hurt by the terrible fate these poor guys had to endure. Smart people, dedicated, innovative who fought for freedom and were ultimately punished because of some people's greed. You could see and feel in the way they acted and spoke, they really believed in what they were doing. Too bad, but sadly this is the way this world operates.

[@tprovosts]

Just watched the documentary back again. Respect to those legends defending our freedom. Such an amazing story.

[@Arachnid-XXX]

Very well done. Better than the lame Facebook story if you ask me.

[@nuegai4642]

Funny how the CIA shell company funding was left out of the Stazibook story.

[@melaninawakened577]

Nue Gai Excellent point! I love when critical thinking people post online, it is the last bastion of true FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

[@angina50]

@@nuegai4642 LifeLog

[@KazzyOfficial]

Man what a masterpiece

[@ninobasset8176]

So glad to stumble upon this documentary, the fight for a free culture internet must live on !

[@plagueb]

I have been a TPB fan for years but after stumbling across this documentary a few months ago and hearing the passion in everything Peter Sunde says and does and watching/listening to every interview and podcast I can find featuring Peter I have had an absolute epiphany in my world and political views and am so blown away by Peter’s pure heart and unfailing passion to just do good for all people in the world to make it a better place for us all and not care at all about getting rich off his brilliant talents and sticking to what he knows is morally right no matter what the governments and authorities throw at him to try to scare him into compliance and submission as they do quite successfully to thousands of us every day. People like Peter are highly DANGEROUS to the huge companies and corporations of people who run this world and have gotten used to being able to fundamentally manipulate and control the population without most people even realising they’re doing it. Then someone like Peter comes along. He has strong beliefs and morals. He wants everyone to be equal and there to be no inequality in society either financial, social, political racial or anything and for everyone to have equal opportunities and amounts of everything as one another. For there to be NO CORRUPTION AND POWERFUL CORPORATIONS CONTROLLING US, SILENCING US AND BRAINWASHING US EVEN AS THEY CONTINUE TO TAKE MORE AND MORE OF OUR FREEDOM AND OUR RIGHTS EACH DAY! People are listening to Peter in the hundreds of thousands, he’s passionate and charismatic and everyone is drawn to him as soon as he walks into the room. HE IS THINKING FOR HIMSELF INSTEAD OF JUST SWALLOWING WHAT THESE SICK PEOPLE TELL US IS REAL AND OTHERS ARE STARTING TO DO THE SAME AFTER LISTENING TO HIM. And worst of all for all of them who sit on their piles of money, controlling us and not giving a shit that they are oppressing innocent people in the billions each day? Peter hates capitalism and CAN’T BE BOUGHT!!!!!! He is every oppressor’s worst fear, their worst nightmare. They know if more and more of us listen to someone like Peter and realise we are being manipulated and fundamentally hypnotised into believing that what they tell us is the truth we will one day rise up and take back our freedom and they will lose it all. PETER SUNDE, @brokep, all I can say is keep on doing EPIC SHIT! Keep going forth and being a force of the AWESOME so that one day we will all be truly free!

[@TheCapedCoconut]

"I am kind. And I still have my soul, too." EPIC

[@DefextOfficial]

I am a Pirate Bay user, for many years. This is my way of giving the middle finger to authority. I've always been that way. Their power is an illusion.

[@remybuitenhuis2433]

still standing...

[@JCDvain]

Not really... Didn't TPB just shut down, again?

[@remybuitenhuis2433]

i really just downloaded two films, the bourne identity and ulitimatum if you wanna know

[@remybuitenhuis2433]

thepiratebay.org

[@JCDvain]

Remy Buitenhuis TPB is no longer ran by pirates, just so you know. Enjoying those cease and desist letters yet?

[@remybuitenhuis2433]

no idea where you talking about, im just fine

[@babenka69]

5 years after, Pirate bay is still running on and off from different web sides... Going even stronger

[@ethnos321]

Respect and good luck from South Africa. On behalf of everyone I know - we are routing for you guys! This documentary needs to go viral. Please share it guys/girls.

[@Oxi1.1]

Im a user from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 since 2008 . Im really grateful to these heros

[@josejrtuti]

I agree with Prof. Roger Wallis (on 20:11) that piracy may actually help to increase entertainment industry revenue. Even after all these years of torrent exchange files, Hollywood doesn't seem to be facing any money shortage.

[@Nautilus1972]

What happened is they only concentrate on blockbusters. Privacy has killed independent movies. It makes movies worse.

[@DimmuBurnir]

Nautilus1972 privacy did kill it? :D

[@ArashRezaee]

@@Nautilus1972 It exposed independent movies, Nobody cared about them.

[@nickn2794]

@@ArashRezaee Exactly. I've found a lot of independent material thanks to piracy and I bought what I cared about, what was actually good quality. What Nautilus doesn't know, is that the Cinema industry makes crappy movies full of special effects since the advent of its real competitor: television. We live in the golden age of tv shows and cinema fears that very much. Now of course there is Netflix. But Piracy has never been a great competitor. Hollywood still made and makes millions.

[@centozo]

I bought concert tickets for a band I discovered without paying for their music. Some bands I've heard without buying their music, I've bought merchandise for. If I like your music, I'll support you some way I can, but buying an album blindly is really a gamble because artists can be really good at first but then suck later on.

[@Christmas12]

The Pirate Bay could never be destroyed because it was forced to evolve, and it evolved to become an idea. And Ideas *can't* be destroyed they can only be forgotten or become the seeds of new ideas

[@Skravla]

The three of them are Legends.

[@wattosacrim]

What a tough fight fought by real people with balls.

[@aldersgrens]

10 times better than the social network!

[@Xandermorph]

I love Professor Wallis. Now THERE'S a man with BALLS. He's clearly given some real hard thought to the way copyright works versus the way it OUGHT to work and come up with a sound philosophy based on reason properly juxtaposed with research and knowledge. Way to stand up to the copyright law's Third Reich, good sir! I tip my hat to thee!

[@MIETEK154]

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

[@minasnazgul]

piratebay is life to me....not a single day passes without visiting it. long live the pirate bay..its founders and families

[@neet319]

I am here after Darknet Diaries Podcast

[@Isaac1995]

I think if something has mixed reviews and videos on KZbin don't help, I think downloading them beforehand for free is fine, as long that if you really like it, you buy it and support the developers, producers or artist. If something is good, people will still buy it even if they have downloaded it for free before.

[@blackfalcon1324]

watch this speech, I think you will appreciate it www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking

[@tnghunter]

How much is even going to the creator? Thats something to look into also. Being fairly poor I know who I want to support but cant always do so. :/ Also I tend to think that a virtual market is different in many ways from a market with a real physical product and a real supply and demand. The reason things like ebooks cost more than physical books is because the market for ebooks is artificial. It doesn't have to cost more when it can be duplicated at the click of a button. I think its just a case of creative destruction like how tv damaged the market for radio or how cds destroyed the market for vhs tapes.

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

@@blackfalcon1324 , Dude, thanks for sharing this link. That was a powerful message. Art, including music, has been turned into an industry rather than the glue that binds society together. We DO need to return to that sense of fellowship, and the organic return of art as a free means of expression and sharing NEEDS to happen, to revive a sense of belonging and peace with one another. But of course, the big corporations would rather keep it strictly monetized and don't care how much society suffers as a result. They see money as worth more than our souls. We know better. Amanda Palmer's the example we need to show that a new decentralized system CAN work and IS sustainable!

[@blackfalcon1324]

@@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her Hee hee, glad you liked it. Old comment though. Had to rewatch the video just to know what I was talking about

[@theor7281]

i went to thepiratebay after watching this

[@hhv3324]

This helped me discover Pirate Bay LOL. I just saw afk in the title and it made me curious. Thanks youtube.

[@HeavyPixel]

I'd piss myself if this got flagged for copyright

[@Caranraug]

I couldn't help but notice that the time was 1337 at 1:12 Funny. Anyway, back to watching the documentary.

[@JorgenKreedz]

It was not an accident. Unless there was an solar eclipse it would never be that dark at 13:37

[@verandisoldusty6834]

@@JorgenKreedz Arctic winter, if you're far enough North in, say Sweden, you get 24 hour dark just like getting the Midnight Sun in the summer. The perks of living on a planet with a tilted axis.

[@JorgenKreedz]

@@verandisoldusty6834 As a Swede I happen to know these things already, but thank you for your time. This was recorded in Swedens capitol, and Stockholm has approximately 6 hours of daylight on it's shortest day, from 08:40 to 14:40. No matter the season, Stockholm has daylight at 13:37.

[@verandisoldusty6834]

@@JorgenKreedz Thanks for explaining & correcting me, much appreciated.

[@dhineshaujayeb5142]

You can kill the creator of an idea but the idea never dies. Pirate bay will be online forever.

[@dll9900]

Gol D. Roger started the Pirate Era, and these guys continuing his legacy!

[@Xandermorph]

HAHAHA!!! "Sweden is not a state of the USA. US law does not apply here." ...like a BOSS. :D

[@gamingislife7327]

xD

[@Charlie-ln1sh]

What if you use a sweetish VPN

[@Gwoendolei]

I would never have bought fifty percent of the games I own without Piratebay, and yea I play games using it that I don't buy, but that's because I either find out that the game isn't worth it or because I just cannot afford to waste money on it. As for other media? Sometimes we're talking about things that made all the money they should have made already and sometimes we're talking about stuff I, again, would have never even been more than superficially aware of without TPB. Then there are things that just cannot be acquired without TPB, things that are no longer in production or were made by somebody who doesn't have another distribution method, those things are just gone completely now. ~Wolf

[@OffhandDelivery]

This movie brought up a lot of questions in my mind. I come from an era when we copied tape cassettes all the time, created mix tapes, and used our VCRs to record movies and shows off of tv all the time to watch with our friends and family. Often we would lend these copies out, And copyright infringement never seemed to be such a gigantic issue that it is today. So here are some of the questions that came to mind while watching this video. Feel free to answer any of them for me, as I'm honestly not 100% clear about most of them as no one has really informed me in any obvious way. Is it legal to lend my friend a cd or movie containing copyrighted material? Is it legal to make back up copies of a physical cd or movie or other copyrighted media that I own, for my own personal use? IF it is legal to lend my friend a cd or movie containing copyrighted material, THEN,.. is it legal to lend my friend a back up copy of my copyrighted material? Perhaps i forget that my friend borrowed my backup copy of this copyrighted material and as a result this back up copy is in my friend's possession for years, perhaps even decades. Is there a time limit on lending privileges before it becomes illegal? Is it illegal to gift a backup copy of a cd or movie that contains copyrighted material? Is it illegal to sell a backup copy of a cd or movie that contains copyrighted material. This question I think i know the answer to. The answer is yes. Is this what Pirate Bay does? I don't think so. From my understanding they run a file sharing website where users can share(lend/gift) whatever data they desire. Some of these users decide to share copyrighted material. However they do not sell this material, or make any money off of it. They simply gift it to whoever wants it. The people that run Pirate Bay make their money from the file sharing business that they have created. They do not directly profit from the illegal distribution of copyrighted material. They simply make money from running a file sharing website. Not the actual content that is distributed through it. If it is illegal to run a company by which some users have decided to share copyrighted material, does this mean that other companies should be held accountable if thier services are used for such illegal activities? If someone mails another person a copy of a copyrighted dvd, is the post office held accountable? If someone emails someone a copy of copyrighted music using Gmail, should Google be held responsible in court? (good luck with that..) I do not support theft. But I do not believe that technically there is a sound case against TPB. They are simply a vehicle that other people happen to use to transmit illegal copies. They are technically not breaking the law at all. It's really a no brainer. Although. I do not think they have handled their situations very wisely. They have been thrown in an arena against ferocious lions, and instead of trying to tame the beasts they taunt them and spit in their faces... Is this bravery or foolishness? Perhaps a bit of both. When your file sharing website has the word "Pirate" in it... you're just asking for trouble. No one should be surprised that they got it. If TPB really doesn't want to get swallowed up and beaten down all the time, if they want to be free to continue with their business, they need to stop kicking lions. There are lots of other file sharing sites around that don't get nearly as much attention as TPB does. (And yes, TPB is much bigger than all the other sites,) but TPB is also the only one who flaunts and taunts around like they're invincible, telling Hollywood big wigs and their copyright infringement claims to "fuck off"... Mouthing off at every opportunity and calling themselves martyrs. There is a very fine line between bravery and stupidity. My only criticism against TPB is that they should try being a little bit less boastful. It is foolish to stand ground and boast of victory when facing several hungry lions. Save your celebrations until after the fight. Modesty will take you a long way. Stop asking for trouble and maybe the trouble will stop coming to you.

[@lildwarflikes6386]

Someone who knows shit reply to this comment please.

[@hereticlohani]

OffhandDelivery Hello there. I also come from the same era you described where mixing, sharing, lending cassettes, videotapes, tv recording for personal use was commonplace. Copyright rules existed then also. If the friend you lent your cassettes to was broadcasting it, it would have been illegal. However, such situations usually didn't arise, because you'd either have to own a radio or TV station, or an illegal theater to broadcast unlicensed material. The investments needed to procure such distribution outlets and running them were beyond the reach of the average person. The digital revolution has completely changed the landscape. You just need a computer and an Internet connection now and anyone can broadcast copyrighted material. Furthermore, all digital material (whether music, video, applications) do not degrade in quality with multiple copies like dubbed cassettes, videotapes used to degrade in quality. Also, digital files on one's computer aren't going to be infected by fungus. So, if you happened to receive a dubbed cassette from a friend that had poor quality, you had the incentive to buy the original cassette. With digital mp3's with a given bandwidth, you're getting the same quality no matter how many times you create a digital mix from it. The real issue here insofar as the producers (all content creators) are concerned is the dilemma of: a) Maximizing Profits - Producers are richer, multinational, more powerful and even more hungrier today. Globalization is also a game changer (where new markets are created worldwide and potential ones exploited, unlike the cassette era days where reach was limited, and also costly if things had to be shipped far, far away). E-business makes the whole world marketable, and suddenly you can buy music online in your own currency in, say, Vietnam at Vietnamese price incentives. b) The Control - the Internet cannot be policed or raided like an unlicensed (or illegal) radio, TV station or unlicensed theater. So, if I'm a record label, some Hollywood studio, video game publisher, I'm going to have sleepless nights on how to curtail unlicensed distribution. Something needs to be done, which brings us to the subject of this video. c) Setting an Example - this whole exercise wasn't about law or damages as much as it was about reinforcing the notion of control. How do you do it? You target the biggest fish, which was TPB then and hope no one has the guts to host a website with trackers ever again. From what I could gather from TPB's spokespersons on this video, they aren't necessarily pirate lobbyists, but anti establishment control, especially when it comes to how people of their generation consume information, goods and services through the Internet. Producers have a business model which may, or may not suit its customers' preferences. The internet has fragmented this further, so people's preferences and pathways are changing, but the big producers still operate on the paradigms created in the cassette era. In the end, people haven't become pro-piracy, but more selective and decentralized. The result is a conflict. That is not to say that there won't be people downloading illegally and for free if producers made their contents available with licenses in multiple platforms, but the figure will diminish. Businesses typically think in predatory terms - maximize profits and do that in the most efficient and cost-effective (from their point of view) outlets of engagement. This outlook seems reasonable. But, here's the problem. Say, you're bored and there's nothing on TV (because it's a centralized medium; you see what they show you and you have no choice). You go to youtube and you can watch whatever you want. It's this newfound empowerment (notions and feelings of freedom, and the narcissism that goes with it) brought about by the digital revolution and the internet that creates conflict between the old world and the new world. I'm not a lawyer, so please treat my answers to your questions as educated conjectures. -Legal as long as that person doesn't broadcast the material elsewhere or makes a copy (because he/she doesn't own it), and ultimately returns that material to you. -Legal. -Legal for your friend, but maybe illegal on your part, because you made a backup not for your personal use. -As long as that friend doesn't claim ownership of the material and doesn't broadcast, copy and distribute to others, no harm done. -Time is irrelevant, I think, because your friend will not have paid for it in any event (the creators didn't receive any royalty from your friend) -Illegal to gift someone a copy of something you bought, because while you have the license to own the original, your friend won't have a license to use his/hers. -Yes, it is illegal to sell anything that you don't own the copyright to; especially if it is done commercially. It may be legal to sell your friend something you bought, which could be interpreted as transfer of ownership as long as you don't create a backup copy for yourself. -Yes, PirateBay is a p2p tracker storing site. All shared contents, legal or otherwise, are from individuals who use the website. - Right, they don't earn directly from the activity of the people using their site, but from the traffic generated on their site that gets advertisers interested, just as Facebook. -Sites like piratebay lease/buy servers from people who lease/sell servers. It's a legitimate exchange of services. Depending on context and country, people who lease servers may or may not be required to ask what the servers will be used for. These are gray areas. PirateBay uses the servers to host their website and hold trackers, which are like addresses of computers that have files that are shared between people who use their sites, but that's a simple explanation. Trackers are simply codes that get generated when someone uploads something and others download them. As far as companies advertising on such sites are concerned, one would have to legally prove that said advertisers promote and contribute to illegal downloading of copyrighted material in a quantified way. Advertisers may simply say that they're targeting the people that come to the site to sell their own legal products, which may be perfectly legal, or illegal depending on the context and country concerned. These are gray areas, again. -Interesting observation about the post office lol. Just like the server leaser is in business to lease servers, the post office is in business to ship mail. They are not policemen, detectives and lawyers. I suppose in the post office case, they may screen mails that are shipped for prohibited materials. If a CD slips by, and if CDs are prohibited from being mailed, then the post office will simply be responsible for letting a prohibited material slipping through, not copyright. -I don't think google will let you mail mp3's if there's a signature on it that they recognize it as copyrighted, just like KZbin doesn't allow you to upload videos that have music in it which is copyrighted. Try zipping it, I suppose lol. Like I said above, the TPB case was all about control and sending the message. Yes, they got too boastful and paid the price for it. When there are thousands of people downloading, one has to either arrest all those people from many, many countries, which is logistically impossible. So, they targeted the only body they could target. But, p2p hasn't stopped, nor has illegal downloading. As I said above, the landscape has changed with digital technology and the internet.

[@Nautilus1972]

Because YOU could not lend it out to a billion people.

[@TheVoiceOfChaos]

this comment sounds like it was written by kickass torrents

[@DarianBax]

Great documentary about very brave people. Pirating and internet freedom will never die!

[@1nitniuq]

This just makes me wanna torrent more in protest to those greedy penny pinching big shots at Hollywood.

[@brnoamik]

I myself torrent to protest mistreatment of women.

[@DantesInferno96]

Hollywood movies for the most part deserve to be torrented.

[@shubhamsharma6001]

But use TOR

[@moosetwin9023]

@@shubhamsharma6001 TOR is not a torrenting client.

[@moosetwin9023]

Piracy: Seed More

[@half-soul8393]

What an inspiring and interesting documentation of it all. Long live to no-censorship, Long live Freedom, Long live the Pirate Bay!

[@zheroo1]

Now this documentary is WORTH BUYING! Feel sorry for peter , reminds me a lot of my swedish friends in the way he looks :D

[@Diablo-bo3ib]

+Stewie Griffin Peter Sunde is Norwegian tho

[@zheroo1]

hey ho really? well ok then.

[@Diablo-bo3ib]

not that Norwegians and Swedes looks different from eachother in any way tho lol

[@CZsWorld]

Sequel?

[@VerticalMan09]

hey stop following me on every video especially daxflames

[@ondat3347]

God Bless The Pirate Bay God Bless Filesharing Websites FREE MEDIA FOR ALL!!! GOD BLESS

[@nobody2021]

yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!

[@FalloutConspiracy]

Excellent documentary. Simone Klose managed to capture the humanity of these three computer specialists along with some breathtaking shots of Stockholm. I will definitely be recommending this film to all of my friends.

[@adityasinha9511]

Pirate Bay is still alive and so is several other torrent sites, Hollywood and America can shove it.

[@RoySATX]

"It was just a little fad. I never thought it would last." say's the smirking Monique. The corporate cabbage Monique who's soul had long since past.

[@mmmiiikkki]

They should do another document about TPB in the future! :)

[@reecealexander1325]

MrKimchiNinja It's documentary you narcissistic jackass. Stfu

[@conforzo]

PirateBay has been up for many many years. And these large corporations have not had any setbacks whatsoever.

[@karthikshinde6739]

love pirate bay ...the pirates revolutionised the world

[@fran7436]

Remember the day 15 september 2003 when tpb was born :)

[@karthikshinde6739]

Pirate bay is good for poor people and third world countries...love to pirates bay

[@joshuasprucie8933]

Well It seems like Peter Sunde doesn't care anymore about the website after serving his prison sentence :(

[@treasurechest2951]

When the 'meter maid' served Peter the papers, and Peter asked why do you have this job, you should get a better one, you can tell who really has the guts. Some say TPB guys are brash but we as a people know truth when we see it, and stirs something in us too. These guys went to hell and they have so much of my respect.

[@patrickCava]

Hebrews 13:16 "Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God".

[@RezhwScene]

Love The Pirate Bay

[@WH40KHero]

Copyright how it was intended: Prevent stealing from creative people and allow them to build a living on their ideas Copyright now: Big business attempting to kill all competitors by creating a huge monopoly on ideas and creativity making it almost impossible for anyone to really live on their creativity

[@MrKristian252]

I love pirate bay! keep it up and i'll help as good as i can ;)

[@juanswe]

if i buy a newspaper and after i read it, give to someone on the bus, im sharing something and ofc ourse the newspaper could send me to jail for sharing and they loosing money...right?

[@SophiaAnn12345]

Is it connected to the internet?

[@juanswe]

@@SophiaAnn12345 do it need to be connected to the internet to break a law? So you mean that if i own a mobile phone and give to someone, and because its connected to internet then i will get i trouble?

[@SophiaAnn12345]

@@juanswe no the newspaper is not a device?

[@jairusan]

Thank you Simon for the film, Thank you so very much Gottfrid, Fredrik, and Peter.

[@faridzenon]

Revisit Feb 2023. who still owned the t-shirt?

[@celestinetoussaint6350]

Literally watching hacker films about pirate bay and Aaron Swartz is what made me discover coding and security and I am forever grateful to the internet.

[@thomas-sinkala]

Came here after the Parler shutdown and really glad guys like this exist.

[@LiEnby]

the guy who made TPB said that parler getting shut down was "embarrassing" lool

[@A_massive_wog]

Torrenting from Kickass this very minute. Rise like a phoenix Pirate Bay!

[@Diego-nn9vh]

I'd gladly help with Brazilian Portuguese subtitles. Couldn't you let people collaboratively write the subtitles? This doc should have subtitles in every possible language.

[@theRPGmaster]

Diego Cunha I'm swedish, i'm glad if i can be of any help.

[@thegbanger599]

+there master

[@qazmko22]

the original files did just they didn't make it onto this upload.

[@bahasapaaja8040]

26:22 it is you?

[@allanhenriques2694]

@@bahasapaaja8040 holy shit, nice catch lol

[@species8472cze]

one day i will tell my children about these guys. I have nothing but pure respect for what theyre doing and all the shit they had to go thru because of what they believe in

[@infamouspants2576]

9:35 it was in a chat room on the internet Peter: Hey Gottfrid: Hi Fredrik:Hello Gottfrid:Ok so i have an idea,lets make a website where we put paid stuff for free, not like its gonna become popular lol Peter: yes lol Fredrik: ok but how, we just met about 30 seconds ago

[@ermin2970]

Thanks for your service!

[@LucianaRamosM]

Um filme realmente magnífico sobre a busca de um conhecimento de melhor qualidade no homem, alguns idealistas suecos...

[@StavrosVorkas]

1 thing I never understood with the industry is why if I buy something I am not allowed to do what I want with it? It is my property whether I want to share it copy it or destroy it should be my issue since it belongs to me.

[@FeelFreetoDie]

+Stavros Vorkas They make it so you are not buying the product but merely the disk that contains the product or in the case of software a license to use that product as long as you abide by their rules.

[@stitchitchin1160]

+Stavros Vorkas Not really because when you buy something, wether its a game a music or a movie, you have the right to use it, but you don't own the license. And the right to use it might be temporary also ...

[@reezechepniz7058]

+Stavros Vorkas no... you see that in a wrong way. you just buy the permission to use it

[@StavrosVorkas]

Akshay Aradhya How does that make any sense or is in any way relevant? Your employer Pays you he doesn't BUY you. And seriously a rape reference. how nice.

[@AkshayAradhya]

Stavros Vorkas ​Its totally relevant. Its the same thing with movies and music, you pay for the music you don't buy the rights to the music

[@Penfry7]

The feeling when a rapist get a lighter punishment than some1 sharing a movie

[@LiEnby]

making a search engine for other people sharing that movie*

[@jamx02]

"They're welcome to come fail again" so badass

[@ElonMusk-FanZone]

Love the piratebay!

[@dontreadtoomuchintomycomment]

when he showed the small CPUs that handle 50% of the Worlds BitTorrent i almost cried, that is immensely impressive. EDIT: i wanted to strap a bomb to myself and blow something up when i heard the medical industry sued South Africa for copying an HIV medicine : , ( EDIT: for some reason i felt vindicated when he said, "in your face, Hollywood" EDIT: i believe they shouldve shut TPB down but, when they asked Tomas Norstrom if it was wrong to not tell anyone about the judges special interest, and he said it was for others to decide, it upset me. the people who are appointed to uphold the law have the same moral fiber as those breaking the law.

[@schrodinger1811]

And then came India who just scrapped all US laws of medical industry and made most expensive medicines to be made at a fraction of cost by minor tweaking and help a large part of world with cheap medicines. I am so proud that India didn't bow down to those US pharmacy.

[@flev771]

Who is here from darknet diaries? :D

[@DangerousMongoose]

Remember these brave souls when they come for your data, privacy, and rights to own more than one copy of something you’ve paid for.

[@ElonMusk-FanZone]

I love the time displayed at 1:12 , LEET!!

[@TheNorw3gian]

You can thank TPB for sites like Netflix. Without torrenting we would still have to rent movies physically.

[@lbcraiders1956]

LONG LIVE PIRATE BAY!

[@Usmc913]

Still going today about to enter 2023. Our community won.

[@jwwe1]

Is it wrong to let my friend borrow a DVD? Absolutely not!!! That is what piratebay is....... "Sharing media" Exactly the same as letting someone borrow your DVD.... Shame on Hollywood for pursuing people that want to share their stuff... smh

[@CheapSushi]

Letting a friend borrow a DVD isn't illegal, FYI. It's not the "same" thing has torrenting it to your friend. But not like you give a fuck anyway, you're not a content creator, just leecher.

[@jwwe1]

media was already paid for idiot-_- so it's the same thing brah!!! dvd sharing is media sharing

[@CheapSushi]

jwwe1 DVD sharing IS NOT the fucking same as "media sharing" through TBP., (no you didn't pay for it, I can tell you give zero fucks already).. There's a difference. It's already LEGAL to let your friend borrow the actual DVD, like I mentioned. But sharing some torrent online, with hundreds, thousands or millions of other people or even just your friend who has ZERO intention of ever buying it after he gets his copy is not the same. I pirate shit all the time but I'm not gonna bullshit people about what it is.

[@jwwe1]

someone paid for it-_- what part don't u understand.. Someone paid for the dvd or music CD. then they burned it to there pc. then they uploaded it to torrent sites to be shared.. do u comprehend now-_-

[@CheapSushi]

jwwe1 Holyfuck. How do you not understand that uploading it to the torrent site to be shared is where the fucking issue is? Man, why the fuck do I bother to point out obvious shit to some 13 year old. Not like you even have money to buy a fucking DVD.

[@kallikantzaros]

RESPECT GUYS. WORLD LOVES YOU. FUCK THIS SYSTEM WHERE MONEY RULES IN ANY CASE.

[@arpitbharti6245]

i don't just pirate because i don't have tge money, i do it because it's easier.

[@Gloverfield]

Ikr like if you buy a disk of gta 5 not only you're gonna have to wait like a month for it to come to you you also have to spend 12 hours of instaliaton - _-

[@Nirbanox]

Long live the cause. For the brotherhood!!

[@toonyfatninjas]

in this world everyone is guilty of something! Pirates forever!!!!

[@doogsiabrey]

Hollywood actors aren't making enough money ... ?

[@HandsUpDK]

Not compared to how many people watch them...

[@LinusSexTips420]

YoYo .Kidz The pope doesn't get nearly enough either.

[@HandsUpDK]

Nicke Johansson Is he an actor?

[@silverchaquet]

Isn't it enough for Hollywood to be imposing their culture on the rest of the world? Plus they cannot pay their actors better? Treat them better of course they can at least

[@ChristofferOrrmalmUtsi]

Not compared to producers, directors and script writers. Huge movie companies make waaaay more money in the long run.

[@Anonyminded]

The truth is that PTB, Wikileaks and many others represent still the same old phenomenon of sharing stuff between people (in this case digital content), only this time it is on the global level in more sophisticated form of using most advanced network human kind ever developed. This sharing is the same old human character people had for thousands of years, when they were helping each other to spread the information and learn how to solve their problems or enjoy their life better, so in this sense it is completely natural. If u look at it from this point of view, it is very much understandable why big corporations doesn't like the idea of sharing, and why they want everybody body to pay them a royalty of doing that. All big business wants more and more control, because control is power and power is growth and higher profit. What doesn't make any sense is how these corporations fight for even more money, while they make zillions. They could make a very good deal with all those sharing p2p services and create more robust distribution network, than ever before surpassing all digital stores for all sort of content, not just movies. This big gap I see in how today's corporations r thinking, and deciding how to fight. Just look how very little has changed since 2009, which only proves that they r fighting a war they could never win, because they r going not against one enemy or name, they r going against network without hierarchy or structure. And this is what I think is a most amazing thing about human future development regarding what internet has showed us, that what people really need is an infrastructure, a network of highways, all sorts of roads, with dead end branches, but most importantly bridges. What is now going on with internet and development in this network clearly reflects the first steps into new evolution of human thinking. New era of upon us, and it will require a revolutions on many fronts to change fundamental understanding of how we humans r thinking and defining freedom. We r clearly at brink of a big clash between old and new, and internet is only a beginning...

[@user-bp5py6bh3g]

Learn how to write...

[@Anonyminded]

learn how to comment

[@user-bp5py6bh3g]

Nice comeback lol /s

[@Anonyminded]

yeah very deep one

[@shadowthrunight5911]

This documentary really shows, that "The Pirate Bay" is a symptome of a broken system.

[@good2333]

Legends

[@craigyoung3994]

Who gives a fuck? Artists earn way too much anyway. I hope I can contribute to stealing from them

[@ela_seo]

+craig craig If that was a joke, good one. If not, you probably haven't noticed "starving artist" is almost a career description.

[@JulieFernz]

+Ela Iliesi if beyonce and jay z could half their earnings and distribute it among the deserving, hard-working independent artists ...

[@craigyoung3994]

Shit, this last comment is 42 weeks old but only showing up now. I think it would be a bit pathetic to argue a nearly year old comment......so here I go. It is clearly the artists making millions. I highly doubt jay z or kayne are sleeping on the floor.

[@patrikpatriksson]

53:00 “Gottfrid is good at encryption”. HAHAHA, yea right, everyone had their emails encrypted except Gottfrid!

[@veighserYT]

Yeess! Only another 22 Days, 23 Hours, 56 Minutes and 40 seconds until The PirateBay is back :D definitely the best thing ever