The Blog Pirate

To New York

Hey guys I know we haven’t been on in a while, we had some family problems so one of the guys had to leave the trip so it is down to two trekkers.

We were able to get a ride to New York and trek through a couple of populated cities and take some photos and stuff. Right now we are in Ohio after trekking through the mid west. We were going to interview an Amish guy about file sharing but we decided not to ask him if he used TPB to watch porn and play video games.

Although as I mentioned in an earlier blog I noted that i thought most people don’t even know what file sharing is but know what bootlegging is in terms of electronic data and I was right. It just shows you how much the American government doesn’t want people to share. But so far we have only met one guy in California that knew what TPB was so we’ll have to change that.

So on our way walking back we will be flying our pirate flag that we have bought and hitting up government buildings with our TPB flag we made we hit up Sacremento but the pictures were blurry and people were calling us hippies and pirates so we got the frack out of there because it was crawling with cops.

Time Square will obviously be hit up with the flag and we’ll make sure they know what TPB is. I will be trying to find open internet in New York so we can get on bambuser.com, and if I can’t I have aircrack on linux so all is well. Or we can do what we have been doing most of the trip and just ask. Most people are pretty nice especially here in the midwest.

Even the cops are nice, they gave us a ticket for speeding and told us to have a nice day. LOL whateva, Texas cops are assholes though I tried to get a picture with one of the cops that had both sides of his mouth filled with chew and a big ass cowboy hat but he said, and i shit you not ,”We don’t do that down here son…” and rolled up his window. WTF?

So we will be flying our flags and interviewing people and hopefully we don’t get shot or arrested either way though TPB is going to be known over there. But if any one knows a good site on explaining torrents to common people it would nice to have that url. I’ve learned everything through friends and messing around but I know if people are going to use TPB it has to be a little bit easier for them to find out how. I mean just look at all of the flame post of people asking how to work it. Im going to recommend UTorrent but if any one has a better program please share. So sites that are easy to understand for normal non techies would be nice. I will be recommending suprbay.com if they want to get info directly from the community.

And sorry to Illunatic about not making it over we will definetly hit you up on the way back and any others that live in America. Also our route has changed from the original so I will up date that.

Tags: New York, TPB, Trek4PirateBay

Most Of TPB’s Users Hanging On For The Ride

While a few, albeit passionate, users have immediately jumped ship, a vast majority of users seem to be weathering the storm of change.

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Tags: .04%, bay, factory, gaming, ggf, global, leave, out, Pirate, sell, sellout, stay, TPB, users

Open Letter To Global Gaming Factory X, Pirates and Rights Holders

This is an open letter to Global Gaming Factory X and especially to the people who are very concerned over what this change in ownership of the site will mean for my internet home away from home, thepiratebay.org. It is in response to this BBC article, or at least partly inspired by it.

There is a lot of uncertainty as to what exactly is being planned for the system of compensating uploaders. From what I understand, this is still in the planning stage so I hope this little brainstorming session can contribute to your planning by giving you one pirate’s perspective. More »

Tags: bay, busines, factory, future, gaming, ggf, global, industry, letter. incentive. benefit, model, new, open, Piracy, Pirate, X

Pirate Babe of the Week – Farrah Fawcett

Was one of Charlie’s angels, was a great mother – and will Always be remembered as a great woman.

Be at peace, Farrah

Check back here for the Next Pirate Babe of the week

Tags: Babe, Farrah Fawcett, Pirate, Week

Reasons Not To Bail On The Pirate Bay

Someone started a thread at suprbay.org (feel free to come join in the discussions) asking for three reasons not to abandon TPB so I fired off the first things that came to mind. I’ll probably elaborate on some of this more later on, but right now I’m tired and Stun thought it would be nice to copy pasta here so here it is. Twelvish reasons not to panic and jump ship.

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TPB Reaction Creates Building Blocks For Tomorrow

In a sudden unexpected result of the recent announcements that The Pirate Bay may be changing ownership this August, millions of loyal TPB users have and are continuing to shit massive bricks. While the first reaction of many was to pick up the bricks and hurl them at TPB founders like Iranian protesters, the rage subsided after realizing the the change of ownership may not be as bad as many assumed.

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@TPB Reaction

Update: Here is a translation of Marcin de Kaminski’s blog which will likely put a lot of your minds at ease about the future of TPB.

Children of the internets! This is an open letter to your face.

Well I’ve been seeing non-stop fear mongering about “zomg TPB is dead” and all this and I would like to ask that everyone take a step back, take a deep breath, count to five and look at the situation from a larger perspective.

“Stop that personal cult-hype! File sharing is so much more
than TPB. And TPB is still there. People are so negative for no
reason!” -brokep

This is exactly what I want to center on for a moment. TPB has become such a huge symbol for the pirate movement that many people now equate the site thepiratebay.org with this movement. This is not the case. First, please understand that I am not a mindless fanboy here and that I am speaking from my own perspective and out of my own love for the ideals that TPB has done well to promote.

I have been around the internets since back in the Napster days and I understand where a lot of you are coming from now, seeing this change of ownership taking place. But rather than panicking and assuming the worst for piracy because this sire is going from public to publicly owned, let’s speculate on what this means for those very ideals that TPB was created in the name of. These ideals have included copyright reform, privacy and free speech.

I live in the USA in a time of shadowy ACTA treaties, RIAA department of justices, NSA logging the internet, law suits against mothers for ridiculous amounts of money… it goes on and on and most of you are familiar with such things. Despite all these things, I don’t see a lot of serious debate on this issues. We need now, more than ever, for these issues to be brought up in the commercial press. We need people to give serious political attention to these ideals that are being threatened on a scale never before seen.

But I am not writing this to focus on the threats to these ideals. Rather, I am writing this to focus on where we are now and where we are going as well as the role TPB has played in all of this. Not as a TPB user, not as a Pirate Party member (of which I am not affiliated atm), not even as a pirate, but just as a human.

The greatest achievement, imo, that the site thepiratebay.org has made is that it has become a media magnet. It hasn’t been since Napster since these issues have gotten so much media attention. Unfortunately, not enough people were ready for these issues back then and it was long before the debates were reduces once again to internet whispers. What has changed since then is that, according to anti-pirate figures, we are now hundreds of millions strong. In large part this is due to the media attention that TPB’s founders stirred up by standing firmly behind these ideals that we share. This had even inspired many of you who are now condemning them as “sell-outs” to embrace these ideals in the first place.

You’re welcome to your own opinion about this, but we are owed nothing more than our opinion from these guys. Mine is that it’s up to them what they want to do with the site they created. Instead of worrying about what will become of the site in the future, I am more concerned with what opportunities this will provide me and you, the user of the site.

Despite the media attention TPB has received in the past, here in the states I have not seen a whole lot of press time given to the site and even less given to the ideals surrounding it. While it has no doubt served as great publicity in drawing newcomers to the site, it has not raise the same awareness of these ideals here in the states that led to a cultural revolution in Sweden. While this is huge for Sweden, who is taking presidency over the European Union tomorrow, it is important that we see the same happen in the USA. The reason for this is fairly obvious since copyright law, proposed limits on privacy and free speech restriction in other nations have originated here in corporate America (which I like to call the head of the serpent. Hydra vs Serpent: The Saga Continues). Until now!

This event is the beginning of a tsunami of media coverage of the TPB and is a great opportunity to make out voices heard on these issues. However, there is no guarantee that these issues will be focused on! That’s why it is now time for all of you, young padawans, to take it to the next step. For too long we have all sat back and relied on a few hobbyists to be our voice. Now is the time, when we have to worlds attention, for you, the new media, to step forward and be heard. It’s time to get on your blogs and speak your own views. Not mine, not someone else’s, but your own views. If you don’t have a blog, start one. Don’t want to start one? Hook up with a cluster and help spread the blogs around that are saying this.

Now is the time to be heard and each one of you has the opportunity to leave the old dying industry behind and convert yesterday’s future into today’s… well into today! Don’t worry about having enemies or what will become of TPB. This is happening right on time. The “us vs. them” era is over. It is now, just us; pirates, humans, society.

I have a few projects that I haven’t even started on that will be dedicated to this, but don’t wait on me, go out and make your own projects. DO IT! RIDE THE WAVE!

LEAVE BRITNEY TPB ALONE!
Just for you t3hfan ;D

Tags: alone, anakata, bay, brokep, ftw, leave, lol, new pirate order, party, Pirate, response, revolution, tiamo

The Pirate Bay May Go Public

Yeah, that’s right. TPB has announced that ownership of the site may change hands to Global Gaming Factory. I would go into more detail here, but there are already a few resources with as more info than I could ever give you.

Why does this seem so cool? Because now the site can truly become a user owned hydra.
This will hopefully serve to bring file-sharing as service up to where it should have been a long time ago.
For $7.8 Global Gaming Factory probably is going to do whatever it takes to make file-sharing succeed as a legitimate service.

Then there is also the following which sits well with my own ambitions in life:

The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets. I hope everybody will help out in that and realize that this is the best option for all.

Congrats to TPB! Not just the founders, but the crew and users who make it what it is. Beers to the next episode!

To the “sky is falling crowd…” Of course I’m seeing a lot of “oh noes” about this already as none of us can be certain of exactly what the outcome will be, but keep in mind that while The Pirate Bay has been perhaps the most vocal pioneer of the piracy movement, they are not the piracy movement! As they have announced, there is more to come. We all know there is need for better protocol anyway so hopefully the new project will include something like that. I don’t know, but my point is that whether or not TPB remains as great as it has been is not nearly as important as the impact a move like this will have in support of the free internet revolution. So how can I put this? Don’t crap your pants people! This is just taking things to the next level.

Out of the shadows in into your face!

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