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
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