Pirate Bay launches bid to buy country

[Waffles]

Sealand earmarked for rebel haven


By INQUIRER newsdesk: Friday 12 January 2007, 13:26

NEFARIOUS file-sharing site The Pirate Bay says it is planning to buy its own country and turn it into a copyright-free piracy paradise.
The torrent outfit launched a "Buy Sealand" campaign this week, with the aim of acquiring the former World War 2 gun platform now known as the Principality of Sealand, located just six miles from the UK coast.

The cut-throat file sharers claim the platform is up for sale having been badly damaged by fire in the summer of 2006.

The Pirate Bay hopes to fund the £100 million sale through donations from users who will automatically become citizens of the principality.

"It should be a great place for everybody, with high-speed Internets access, no copyright laws and VIP accounts to The Pirate Bay," the group prolaimed in a statement on the hastily-erected buysealand.com web site.

If the bid for Sealand fails, the pirates have plans to look elsewhere. "We will try to buy another small island somwhere [sic] and claim it as our own country," they vowed through cutlasses in their teeth.

The Pirate Bay has long been under fire from US copyright enforcers and its HQ in Sweden was raided by local police last year. The site remains active and its crew defiant. µ

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[JonDubya]

awesome.

[budget_crx]

umm wtf