The world's most notorious BitTorrent tracking site, The Pirate Bay, won't be going to Davy Jones' Locker, even if its four operators are convicted of facilitating copyright infringement, one of the defendants said in an interview Friday with THREAT LEVEL.
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, one of the four Swedes charged in Sweden on Thursday, said in a telephone interview that the site has set up a clandestine, double-blind operation with its servers spread throughout the world -- and out of reach of the Swedish authorities.
"The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden," the 29-year-old Kolmisoppi said.
Where are the servers?
"It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay," Kolmisoppi said. "They then rent locations and space for them somewhere else. It could be three countries. It could be six countries. We don't want to know because then you'll have a problem shutting them down."
The Pirate Bay allows users to search for and access indexed torrents, which contain the information needed to download data containing copyright-infringing content like movies, music, software and other material from users of the service. The Bay, he said, operates like the search engine Google, which also points the way to copyrighted works on the internet.
"We're just a general-purpose search engine and torrent-tracking system. You can put whatever you want on the Pirate Bay," Kolmisoppi said. "We don't participate in how the people communicate with each other. We only participate in bringing the possibility to communicate and share files."
The Bay has been on the entertainment industry's and police authorities' watchlists for years.
In June, 2006, a police raid shuttered it for three days after the authorities confiscated its servers, which were later moved. The raid sparked street protests in Sweden, and garnered the site an international presence after the mainstream media began reporting on it.
The four charged in Stockholm are Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstroem and Kolmisoppi. According to charges lodged in Stockholm, the four are accused of "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws."
"I think they're lame," he said of the charges.
Prosecutor Hakan Roswall was not immediately available for comment.
None of the defendants, Kolmisoppi said, have prior convictions, meaning even if they are convicted, they won't likely be jailed for the two years the charges potentially carry.
"As a worse-case scenario for us, we get a fine," Kolmisoppi said. "They can say we have to shut down the site, don't host it in Sweden. But they can't say it won't be accessible in Sweden or anywhere. They can't do anything about it, no matter what happens."
He also disputes that the company is generating millions in profit, as the authorities allege.
"It's so stupid to say we're making a profit," he said "We're spending hours and hours of our own time to do this. If we were making millions, we wouldn't have day jobs. And even if we did make millions, it would not change the fact that this is not illegal."
Kolmissoppi said his day job is "developing a micro payment system."
No court date has been set.
Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...irate-bay.html
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I hope they'll slip off the hook <3
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