Intellectual Property Law

Incoming CEO?s Manifesto for New Pirate Bay

By David Kravets

Global Gaming Factory CEO Hans Pandeya of Sweden. AP Photo

Hans Pandeya, the Global Gaming Factory chief executive readying to purchase The Pirate Bay on Thursday, has written a manifesto of sorts concerning file sharing, morality and the rule of law.

The five-page paper, Thoughts About The Pirate Bay, amounts to an esoteric plea to shareholders to approve the $8.5 million acquisition of the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker. It also is a veiled invitation to the content industry to license its wares to the Swedish site that, for the past five years, has been offering free copyrighted content to tens of millions of file sharers.

He concludes, however, that file sharers of unauthorized copyrighted works are not morally weak. They just need the new Pirate Bay to show them “how to pay.”

Big Brother gets worried when we share, and wants to know what
we are sharing and why.

No wonder Big Brother hates file sharing. The view that illegal file sharing is free because our moral is low, and a stick is needed to keep us on the right side of the law is generally accepted. Measures have to be taken to force us on the right track: threats issued. We need to be watched because our nature is to steal. The thought never seems to have occurred to us that we love The Pirate Bay and file sharing, not because it is free but because it is all there ? music, movies, tv shows, e-books, you name it ? it gives us the freedom to access  whatever we want. We would pay if someone could just show us how to pay on The Pirate Bay. And if we pay, there will be one lesser excuse for Big Brother to spy on us.

Read Pandeya’s manifesto here.

See Also:

• Court Tries to Kill Pirate Bay; Cat-and-Mouse Game Begins ? Update …
• The Pirate Bay Guilty; Jail for File-Sharing Foursome
• ‘Brokep’ Quits Pirate Bay
• Studios Demand Court Shutter Pirate Bay
• Pirate Bay Buyer Says Deal Nearly Done

Full post as published by Threat Level on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).