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. Story continued here.
Sealand
Sealand is mentioned in the artile. For more information on Sealand there is a Wikipedia entry here.
Re:Sealand
The Sealand guy is a nutjob. If you could call any offshore platform a country the oil companies would have done it a long time ago and we would be calling the president of ExxonMobil your highness.
Then again it is Royal Dutch Shell 🙂