Boing Boing: Pirate Bay trying to buy Sealand, offering citizenship

Friday, January 12, 2007

posted by Cory Doctorow at 08:35:56 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Friday, January 12, 2007 Pirate Bay trying to buy Sealand, offering citizenship The Pirate Bay is raising money to buy the tiny, bankrupt "island" of Sealand. Sealand is the abandoned ~~drilling platform~~ gun battery near the UK that was occupied, declared sovereign, and turned into a offshore data-center for sensitive information. Sealand's owners have put the "country" on the block, and the Pirate Bay, Sweden's gutsy, notorious BitTorrent tracker, is soliciting donations to buy it. They're even promising citizenship to donors. If they don't get enough to buy Sealand, they're promising to buy another island somewhere. Link posted by Cory Doctorow at 08:35:56 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: