The Pirate Bay Captain Speaks

2008-02-12 by Dave de Sylvia EMERITUS | 16 Comments
Gottfried Svartholm Warg, head of Bit Torrent site the Pirate Bay, gave a rare interview to a Russian TV report on the debate over filesharing.

The Pirate Bay is facing charges from the Swedish prosecutors for copyright violation. Prosecutors allege that the owners have taken in millions of dollars in advertising revenue, which they have stored away safely in a network of off-shore accounts and trusts.

Warg retaliated with the standard line that his site doesn't share copyrighted files, it merely points users to helpful locations in which they can access such files.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uENqtT5AP_w

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rattlehead42147
February 12th 2008
1345 Comments


that guy is definitely one of the weirdest looking freaks i've ever seen.

dub sean
February 12th 2008
1013 Comments


whoa pedophile alert!

FlyInMySoup
February 12th 2008
23 Comments


This guy looks like he should be in a Euro-metal band.

The lawyer's response to their 1500 page emails:
"TLDR"This Message Edited On 02.12.08

MadnessUnhallowed
February 12th 2008
403 Comments


Arrr me hearties!

HighandDriving
February 12th 2008
3288 Comments


Pirate Bay sucks anyways.

Meatplow
February 12th 2008
5523 Comments


its one of the better public trackers, still it is by far eclipsed by the many private/semi-private ones that serve their specific purposes.

Dreakon
February 12th 2008
453 Comments


Not a fan of The Pirate Bay, though I do enjoy the fact they are basically the only torrent site publicly "sticking it to the man", so to speak. Couldn't care less what the guy looks like...

It did bug me though that they seem to think that BitTorrent was made solely for sharing of copyrighted material. It's just what it's best known for, unfortunately.This Message Edited On 02.12.08

AtavanHalen
February 12th 2008
17919 Comments


Some of the stuff I've found via Pirate Bay has been great.

evilmegaman
February 12th 2008
174 Comments


I love how during when they showed some of the stuff available, the mars volta was listed. long live filesharing. But technologically it's been at a standstill for a while ever since bittorrent became popular.

Ire
February 12th 2008
41944 Comments


Wanna see this guy go down, just because I hate nerds.

Nice pedo avatar. tpb is pretty useful tbh.

Poet
February 12th 2008
6156 Comments


lol@what this guy looks like.

I was expecting more the Alestorm lead singer.

kattunlover69
February 13th 2008
1194 Comments


he allegedly makes millions of dollars yet he carries a backpack around.





































nuff said

ATLbraves
February 13th 2008
193 Comments


Nooo....i effin' love the Pirate Bay...use it all the time...this sucks.

MoonlightBleeding
February 13th 2008
452 Comments


The Pirate Bay is great.

Mininova is the best, however.

LaidToRest329
February 13th 2008
158 Comments


private or die imo

JAD
February 13th 2008
200 Comments


I don't really like the Pirate Bay. Isohunt and Mininova are the best public sites.



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