Pirate Bay to become independent nation?
gerloff
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Friday 12 January 2007
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The Sweden-based Bittorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay is apparently looking to buy the independent Principality of Sealand. This micronation is based on a British naval platform in the North Sea, and is currently on sale for 65 mio. pounds.
Running its own nation would presumably give the site a degree of reprieve from the legal pressures of the Swedish government, which is being prodded to shut down the site by the US government and the RIAA, among others.
via The Register
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