Pirate Bay’s Tour Bus to Become Court Case Press Center

[Time-Traveller]

Pirate Bay’s Tour Bus to Become Court Case Press Center
Written by enigmax on January 12, 2009

Last year The Pirate Bay and the Bureau of Piracy bought themselves a bus, painted it up in suitable pirate-style livery and embarked on a European tour. Now, with the trial of The Pirate Bay just a few weeks away, the bus will be coming home to Sweden to serve as the official court case press center.

The Pirate Bay’s summer tour started off in Sweden, where the bus was prepared. On July 10th, the bus was in Malmo where the ‘Bay and Piratbyrån (Bureau of Piracy) announced their ‘mixtape amnesty‘.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u320/smudger_dragon/piratebus.jpg

The bus, originally codenamed ‘S23M’, then headed off to Berlin to continue its European tour, with Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde declaring, “It kinda shows that we’re more than just a site, that we’re an idea, and that we’re art in ourselves. As I’ve said many times before, we see The Pirate Bay as some sort of ongoing art project/performance.”

Somehow, over six months later, the bus is currently sitting in a parking lot in Belgrade, many miles away from home. In the fall of 2008, Piratbyrån renamed the bus S23X, and now want to bring S23K, as it’s now known (I hope you’re keeping up!) back home to Stockholm, Sweden. Here, it will serve as a press center for the upcoming Pirate Bay trial.

“During February and March 2009 there is a state-funded spectacle arranged, unprecedented in the capital. The Trial of The Pirate Bay - one of the longest in Sweden’s history - will be held in the Stockholm District Court on Kungsholmen,” note Piratbyrån.

The bus, they say, will have a very special function. “Once in place it will be used in direct connection to the trial in order to intensify the spectacle, including serving as the press center for Piracy Office and The Pirate Bay, and a natural meeting point for supporters and the curious.”

In order to fund the journey from Belgrade to Sweden, supporters are being invited to make donations via the Piratbyrån website. In return, donors will be invited to be a VIP guest at a party celebrating the bus’ homecoming.



Awesomeness - You know when you've been hit by The Pirate Bus !!!!! :)

[Cabalo]

when i see that they profit 40.000€ per day in publicity, and still they want donations for the gas to bring the bus home, it kinda makes me sick.

[Time-Traveller]

when i see that they profit 40.000€ per day in publicity, and still they want donations for the gas to bring the bus home, it kinda makes me sick.

Petrol must be expensive in Sweden and they never even put any of those daily 40,000 Euro's towards a kick ass pimp-my-bus style paintjob :)

[Cabalo]

it wouldn't be so much hippie style if they made it look professional, would it? ;)
I still think TPB is a bastion of the internet liberty, but their admins are getting too much full of themselves, acting like pop stars, etc.
If that site wasn't so profitable, do you believe they would stick so much by it? hell no.
Looking like a philanthropist is really nice when you have your pockets full.
TPB is not an idea. It's a business.

i don't want to look like a socialist, because i'm really not one, or even near. But all this bullshit is about money, THEIR money. nothing else.

[pone44]

:lol:

I would think it would have some spinning chrome rims on that bad boy.

That is kind of funny. I wonder how people react when they see that?

[Cabalo]

those are Alexa's numbers.
I know they have a huge datacenter to feed, but c'mon...

[Time-Traveller]

Think I might give Mecca a miss this year and go on a pilgrimage to Stockholm instead. :)