What do you do when your business model violates laws in your home country, and the laws of most every country around?
Start a new country, of course.
The Pirates Bay, one of the top bit torrent sites where you can find links to download music, movies, TV shows, software, and more, is getting a little tired of being hounded by the Swedish government for their perfectly harmless habit of facilitating worldwide copyright infringement and has decided to go it alone by buying Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea that was declared a “micronation” during some legal disputes in the 70’s. Sealand is now for sale, and The Pirate Bay is sizing it up and measuring for drapes.
Interested in becoming a citizen of the first “information must be free” nation? Head to their Web site and donate. Keep in mind, however, that where companies can be sued, countries can be bombed. Just sayin’.
Keep holding your breath. . .a bunch of downloaders are gonna pony up enough PayPal donations for $975 million?
BTW, you can’t “buy” a nation. You can, however, take over stewardship of it, which is what the “ruling family” is offering.
Better than helping pirates, take the noble route and become a member of the Sealand aristocracy.
Hi, I started a pledge at pledgebank.com
http://www.pledgebank.com/buysealand
the idea is that you promise to donate 10$ to to buysealand.com if othe 1000 people will do it with you. Are you interested? If you are please sign the pledge asap because pledges with less than 25 subscribers are not even shown on the website!