Piratbyrån
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Piratbyrån ("The Bureau of Piracy") is a Swedish organization (or think tank) established to support the individuals fighting against current ideas about intellectual properties by sharing information and culture freely. Piratbyrån itself is not involved in illegal activities, but rather wishes to give another point of view about spreading information than the current lobby groups do.
The organization provides guides, news and a forum focused on file-sharing, intellectual properties, piracy and digital culture, and is arranging events such as lectures, media appearances and a yearly may day demonstration. In 2005 Piratbyrån released an anthology entitled Copy Me containing selected texts previously available from its website.
The name is a play on Antipiratbyrån ("The Anti-piracy Bureau"), a non governmental but content industry-based Swedish anti-piracy organization. Members of Piratbyrån have participated in debates on Swedish Radio and Swedish Television and later also been giving several lectures in other European countries, like at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.
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[edit] Police raid
Early morning on May 31, 2006, in a raid by Swedish police, both The Pirate Bay, a popular Swedish BitTorrent tracker, and Piratbyrån's servers were seized in an investigation into possible illegal activities at the same time, as they were hosted in the same building.
The legalities of the raid have already come into question, as Piratbyrån (and thus, their servers) is no longer affiliated with The Pirate Bay.
Piratbyrån temporarily set up a temporary news blog in the meantime, but since July 19 have their website up online again. Antipiratbyrån also has a news item on the subject.
[edit] BitTorrent tracker
Members of Piratbyrån are the original creators of The Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent tracker, but are no longer affiliated with the site.
[edit] See also
- Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) (not affiliated with Piratbyrån)
- The Pirate Bay A bittorrent tracker.
- Steal This Film
[edit] External links
- Piratbyrån Official Site
- Piratgruppen.org - Danish sister organization
- Piratgruppen.net - Norwegian sister organization
- Art Liberated - Another project from Piratbyrån, highlighting remix culture and opposing censorship of art.
- Slashdot on Piratbyrån's May Day Demonstration 2004
- Press release about Piratbyrån's May Day Demonstration 2005
- The Grey Commons, strategic considerations in the copyfight Text by Piratbyrån's Palle Torsson and Rasmus Fleischer, presenting the activities of 2005.
- The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån taken down by Police
- Between artworks and networks: Navigating through the crisis of copyright Theoretical lecture by Piratbyrån's Rasmus Fleischer.
- Presentation of Piratbyrån by Magnus Eriksson, from the Bzoom festival in Brno, october 2006.
