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About Piratbyrån<br />
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyran<br />
Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy) is a Swedish<br />
organization (or think tank) established to support<br />
the individuals fighting against current<br />
ideas about intellectual properties by sharing<br />
information and culture freely. The organization<br />
provides guides, news and a forum focused<br />
on file-sharing, intellectual properties,<br />
piracy and digital culture, and is arranging<br />
events such as lectures, media appearances<br />
and a yearly may day demonstration. In 2005<br />
Piratbyrån released an anthology entitled Copy<br />
Me containing selected texts previously available<br />
from its website. The name is a play on<br />
Antipiratbyrån (“The Anti-piracy Bureau”), a<br />
non governmental but content industry-based<br />
Swedish anti-piracy organization. Members<br />
of Piratbyrån have participated in debates on<br />
Swedish Radio and Swedish Television and<br />
later also been giving several lectures in other<br />
European countries, like at the Chaos Communication<br />
Congress in Berlin.<br />
Police raid<br />
Early morning on May 31, 2006, in a raid by<br />
Swedish police, both The Pirate Bay , a popular Swedish BitTorrent<br />
tracker, and Piratbyrån’s servers were<br />
seized in an investigation into possible illegal<br />
activities at the same time, as they were hosted<br />
in the same building. The legalities of the raid<br />
have already come into question, as Piratbyrån<br />
(and thus, their servers) is no longer affiliated<br />
with The Pirate Bay. Piratbyrån set up a temporary<br />
news blog in the meantime, but since July<br />
19 have their website up online again.<br />
BitTorrent tracker<br />
Members of Piratbyrån are the original creators<br />
of The Pirate Bay , a<br />
popular BitTorrent tracker, but are no longer<br />
affiliated with the site.<br />
Kopimi.se<br />
Piratbyrån has proposed -- and publishes most<br />
of its work under -- a copyright alternative<br />
called “Kopimi” (pronounced and sometimes<br />
also spelled as “copyme”). Designed to be the<br />
92<br />
opposite of copyright, a kopimi notice specifically<br />
requests that people copy the work for<br />
any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.<br />
This text is available under the terms of the<br />
GNU Free Documentation License.<br />
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html<br />
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quote (from ):<br />
Piratbyran, or “Pirate Bureau,” is hard to nail<br />
down as an organization. It is best described as<br />
an ad hoc pro-piracy think tank, but Fleischer’s<br />
partner in the effort, Marcus Kaarto, won’t<br />
even go that far. “We’re like a gas,” Kaarto says,<br />
laughing. “You can’t get a hold on us.”<br />
© 2007 CondéNet, Inc. All rights reserved.<br />
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links:<br />
http://www.piratbyran.org/index.<br />
php?view=articles&id=114<br />
http://copyriot.wordpress.com/2006/06/03/<br />
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