The explanation for this sponsorship has nothing to do with politics though, it was simply because one of the Pirate Bay’s admins worked at Rix Telecom.

As Pirate Bay admin Brokep puts it.

“It’s called guilt by association – one of our previous ISPs (with clients like The Red Cross, Save the Children foundation etc) gave us cheap bandwidth since one of the guys in TPB worked there; and one of the owners have a bad rumor for his political opinions. That does NOT make us in any way associated to what political views anyone else might or might not have.”

He continues:

“IFPI and the other antipirates cannot stop us with legal actions so they’re trying to make us look bad instead. A couple of years ago they tried with calling us left-winged, now it’s right-winged. Come on, make up your minds? The Pirate Bay itself has one political opinion – share your files, your culture. It’s about technology that gives you your freedom.”

On a sidenote, Bert Karlsson, the host of the Swedish talkshow owns a record label and is believed to be a right-wing extremist, perhaps not the most objective person.

Let’s move (sail) on people…

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