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Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij from The Pirate Bay recently did a video interview which resulted in some great quotes. One such quote comes from Fredrik, he suggests that the movie and music industry should set up their own torrent site, and monetize it through advertisements. “We would be out of business.” he added.

Dayrobber, the site that did the interview, is a new web-tv site that publishes 5 minute short shows. The initial plan was to release the second and the third part of the interview on Thursday and Friday, but especially for TorrentFreak they decided to release all three parts today.

Part 1

In the first part of the interview Fredrik (TiAMO) and Peter (Brokep) talk about the goal that they have for the Pirate Bay, which basically comes down to uncensored sharing. Of course, they are also asked about the millions they make from the site. Peter says that he’s not making any money from it, his income mainly comes from the speeches and seminars he gives. Fredrik adds that it is hard to monetize a BitTorrent tracker, because the legal gray zone makes the ad prices drop.

The pirate bay does plan to launch a few side-projects that will eventually make them some money, such as the videobay and playble, a site where artists can put up their music for free, which will be monetized by advertisers.

Part 2

In the second part of the interview Fredrik advises the movie and music industry to start their own torrent site, and put The Pirate Bay out of business. Peter briefly comments on the upcoming trial, which is a good pr-stunt for The Bay in his opinion.

The interviewer then asks: “We think the design of your website sucks, don’t you know any designers.” Peter responds by saying that the designers he knows are very hard to work with. Fredrik says he rather focuses on securep2p, the new faster and anonymous p2p protocol based on BitTorrent he’s currently working on.

Peter goes on by saying that Denmark the new North-Korea, when the recent block by the Danish ISP comes up.

Part 3

In the third and last part the upcoming trial against the Pirate Bay comes up again. Peter says that he is pretty confident: ” We’re not going to lose the case.”

They further discuss copyright, why mashups are often more interesting than the mainstream media, and how more and more people are consumers and producers

[written by Ernesto]
[via torrentfreak.com]

I just uploaded this video today, so I wont be surprised if some powers that be take it down before too long. If so I’ll find something besides youtube. look at that fat fucker.

This is a leaked official RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should bust music pirates: Because it’ll lead them to “everything from handguns to large quantities of cocaine [and] marijuana,” not to mention terrorists and murderers!

The whole video is over 60 minutes long—these are just two of the more outrageous minutes with Jim Dedman, from the NDAA, interviewing Deborah Robinson and Frank Walters from the RIAA about the benefits of going SWAT on music pirates. At one point, Walters says the piracy/drug connection can be so bad that you get asked “When you buy a CD, would you like it with or without—the with is enclosing a piece of crack or whatever the case may be.”

Original Article:
[via Gizmodo.com]

I assume their focus is on the sale of actual discs with pirated applications/movies/music, but with this they’re encouraging law enforcement to waste man hours fucking around with civilians for the wrong reasons, while those with actual weight widdle it down to their subsidiaries. might it be possible that the riaa is mistaking “call of duty 4 w/ crack`” for pirated software accompanied by actual crack cocaine? i wouldnt put it past them. SHUT UP FAT MAN.

Whats next you ask? I’ll tell you; U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft

[more on that via WIRED blog]

for more laughs, check out this anti-piracy ad from UK comedy, “The It Crowd”

[IT Crowd Anti-Piracy]