TorrentFreak » pirate_island http://torrentfreak.com Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 19:18:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 Sealand Prefers Hacker to The Pirate Bay http://torrentfreak.com/sealand-prefers-hacker-to-the-pirate-bay/ http://torrentfreak.com/sealand-prefers-hacker-to-the-pirate-bay/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:35:29 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/sealand-prefers-hacker-to-the-pirate-bay/ Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who's facing extradition to the United States. Prince Michael Bates of Sealand apparently prefers hackers to pirates. Earlier this year he refused to sell its micronation to the Pirate Bay because this would upset his friends in Hollywood.

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]]> sealand hackerPrince Bates said about the Pirate Bay’s activities: “It’s theft of proprietary rights, it doesn’t suit us at all. In fact, I’ve written a book and Hollywood is making a movie out of it, so it would go right against the grain to go into the filesharing thing.”

Apparently hacking is not a problem for the Prince of Sealand, and Gary McKinnon is welcome to come in even though the United States is accusing him of perpetrating the “biggest military computer hack of all time.” This extraordinary news was made public earlier this week on the Infosec security conference where Mckinnon was one of the members of a ‘hackers panel’.

It is absurd of course, especially because Sealand’s webhosting company HavenCo has no no regulations concerning copyright, while malicious hacking is explicitly prohibited. Perhaps they’re just trying to get some more publicity?

In other news, The Pirate bay is finalizing it’s search for their very own Pirate island, and we will hear more about this in the next weeks. It’s not going to be Sealand, but who wants that pile of rust and concrete anyway?

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]]> The lads at The Pirate Bay certainly know how to cause a media stir. There can’t be many BitTorrent tracker admins in the world giving interviews to the Sunday Times, appearing in Vanity Fair not to mention trying to buy their own pirate island.

So excuse me when I get excited when I see a post like this from Brokep, one of the Pirate Bay admins.

.. maybe less than two weeks. or something like that. Yes. maybe. a couple of days. It's coming.

Of course we asked Brokep for an explanation. He said:

"The past, the present and the future. It's all the same, but one thing's for sure, we will radiate for weeks"

His answer immediately put an end to all speculation, it (no it’s not about Sealand) really is coming! Excellent! Just 2 weeks, and the BitTorrent community will change for good!

Stay tuned!

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