01x05 - Episode 5

[bunniefuu]

- alternatively aiding and abetting a crime,
regarding The Pirate Bay.

Open your mouth.
Could you please open your mouth?

How do you react to the suspicions?

Our site is 100% legal.

How do you explain that it
contains copyrighted material?

It contains no material, only
links posted by our users.

The only time The Pirate
Bay removes a torrent file-

- is the name inconsistent
with the content?

Then is it possible for you to remove- - a

torrent file that links
to copyrighted material?

Technically, yes.

- But you don't?
- No.

Gottfrid, we can sit here all
night if that's what you want.

I want to admit.

I did it.

I shot Palme.

From the producer association.

Yes... It will be perfect
for Johan's birthday.

We have to celebrate. Huh?

You know the guys are
released pending charges right?

/PHONE RINGING/

/THE PHONE CONTINUES TO RING/

We are having some technical
issues right now at PRQ...

...but we are working on a solution.

No, it...
It will be difficult with a time forecast.

Cancel the contract?
We are working on solving it.

Well, no, but that...

I see. Yes.

Okay. Bye then.

- Where is Gottfrid?
- I don't know.

- How long did you sit?
- I don't know. Like all night.

- Did you also sit with him Jim?
- Yes.

- f*cking wh*re.
- Mm.

At least I managed to
back up all the tracker files.

But... Yes.

/PHONE RINGING/

- Gottfrid. What can I do for you?
- I want my servers back.

They are part of the preliminary investigation.

Only 20% of servers have Pirate
Bay to do. The rest belongs to PRQ.

You can't give up on a company
because I do TPB on the side.

- They are part of the preliminary investigation.
- And my personal computer?

- That one too.
- It has nothing to do with TPB.

If you have any comments, take them to the
county crime scene. Was it something else?

Enter password



/CELL PHONE RINGING/

- Hello, Peter. It's Rasmus.
- Hello.

You, what the hell is going on?
I read about the crackdown.

Yes. So, the police came into PRQ
and took all the Pirate Bay's servers...

Or, well, hell, they took it all.

- Huh? It's absolutely insane.
- Yes, I know.

You, I know we said we were going
to separate the agency and the Pirate

Bay- - but this is a
bloody abuse of rights.

We cannot be silenced like
this. We...have to do something.

Yes, yes. It just pours in support.

Yes. Well!

Hello, my name is Rickard Falkvinge
and I am calling regarding a permit.

The torrent files are uploaded in this now.

- Great!
- Send upload info.

- It must not land on my table.
- Yes, but...everything is encrypted.

- Everything?
- Yes.

Because damn... I thought you guys
had it figured out, that it was waterproof.

- Yeah, but...that's it.
- Yes? Yes.

- No more surprises, just.
- Of course.

- Thank you very much.
- See you soon.

I just got word from the DFA. They
have servers we can borrow in Estonia.

- Can I talk to you?
- Absolutely.

What is it?

- Did the police take your personal computer?
- Yes.

- But you have encryption?
- Of course. So what, then?

They must have taken
Ana's personal computer too.

- And you don't think he has...?
- No idea.

We have received the OK for the
application for the demonstration.

Rasmus: Damn. I'm running the IRC
now. We talk to them here in Estonia.

- Yes, we were approved.
- Damn, how good!

Out with it in all channels.
Now they're going to see the hell!

The attention-grabbing and
criticized police raid against

The Pirate Bay - - has given the file sharers wind in their sails.

A survey shows that three out of
four respondents between 18 and 21-

- think it's okay to download
even though it's against the law.

It's not about paid models-

- or that certain professional
groups should be paid.

It is about control over
culture and knowledge.

For whoever controls it,
controls the world.

The media industry is trying to get us…

- Did you catch Gottfrid?
- No, he doesn't answer.

- What is he doing?
- I don't know.

But now, dear friends,
citizens and pirates

- I have the great privilege of
handing over to the real heroes...

- You, can I take it?
- It's probably easier if I take it.

- I'll fix it.
- ...The Pirate Bay!

/CHEERS AND APPLAUSE/

The Pirate Bay! The Pirate Bay!

During two years, The Pirate Bay has grown-

- from a small file sharing site
on a crappy ADSL connection-

- to the world's largest
distributor of culture and media.

Daily we have 15 million visitors-

- which every second sends
enough data to fill 50 DVDs.

So you at the MPAA, the Anti-Piracy Agency,
Bush and

Bodström- - or whoever
ordered this pathetic attack: Stop

messing with the internet.
It is a w*r you will never win.

It is with pleasure that I announce
that The Pirate Bay is up again.

With the help of pirate friends
who donated servers and

bandwidth - - we are now
decentralized and unstoppable.

Now we fire the big cannon
and say: In your face, Hollywood!

The Pirate Bay!

The Pirate Bay! The
Pirate Bay! The Pirate Bay!

- Thank you for being able to come...
- John?

- I'm going to a meeting.
- You have to see this.

It's up again. And they have doubled
the number of users since the raid.

- Damn.
- And they have changed the logo.

I see it. - Hello to you.

With today's technology, there is
no more effective attack, he said.

He has been a consultant to
the FBI, so he should know.

We follow his advice and
proceed with the cold boot method.

How many servers
have you entered?

- None.
- None? How many have you gone through?

- 20 pieces.
- And how many did you have in total?

- 186 pieces in total.
- My God...

But...call me as soon
as you have something.

- Absolutely.
- Thanks, hi.

- How's it going?
- Nothing yet, unfortunately.

Let me know as soon as you make progress.

- Do you think something might have happened?
- I don't know.

Ana!

Ana!

What the hell...

Gottfrid? Good Friday!

Hello! Good Friday!

Hello! Good Friday!

- Goodbye!
- Shall I fix water or something?

Good Friday! Hello!

Good Friday! Gottfrid, hello!

Yes. What?

Why don't you answer when we call?

Damn miffo.

Was it something?

We are up again.

Gottfrid: Hurrah.

One thing MediaDefender
does is we create dummy files.

They look like normal torrent
files but link to something empty.

Then we flood torrent sites with
them. So people download digital junk.

The file they download is the
size of a movie file, but no movie.

When we do it on a large scale,
sites like this become useless.

Any questions?

- What do you think?
- I don't really know. And you?

Don't know. It feels like we're
trying to give back with the same coin.

- Nothing else we've done has worked.
- What do you want to do, then?

Don't know.

That sounds good. Yes, definitely.

Okay, see you. Bye then.

Damn, how cool. We are invited
to a conference in Copenhagen.

This is absolutely insane, then.

I'm calling you. Good. Well.

Uh, listen... Looks like the
White House is ordering the raid.

- Huh? How do you know that?
- But it's clear.

My journalist friend received a
press release for his editorial office.

"The MPAA congratulates Sweden
on the effort." Right after it happened.

- It's f*cking insane!
- It's a real movie. The White House.

But hey, this is…

This is very good PR for us.

The US threatened
Sweden with trade

sanctions unless file-sharing
sites were stopped.

Every day, criminals steal American
products and spread them on the Internet.

In cooperation with the industry, we
target sites that share pirated products.

We will shut down the sites.
If a site reappears, we will too.

- Damn! I'm tired of this sh*t.
- What sh*t?

There is a lot of whining in
the forum about crap files.

- What kind of sh*t files then?
- Fake torrents.

Can't you post a request to
bring in more moderators?

Yes. Already done.

Good.

K346 to Copenhagen is
now ready for boarding.

That's us, corner. Let's go!

- You, Ana.
- Yes.

Surely we have encryption on everything?

- Absolutely.
- Are you sure?

Yes.

Give a big round of applause and welcome
Pirate Bay's three founders to Copenhagen:

Peter, Fredrik and Gottfrid.

Tell us about The Pirate Bay.
What do you want to achieve?

We want to achieve
well-organized civil disobedience.

Our goal has always been to
protect freedom on the Internet.

That's pretty much it.

Yes...

Intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century.

That's what Mark Getty said,
founder of Getty Images.

Oil, as you all know, means w*r.

Every day we delete hundreds of
threat emails from Forbes 500 companies-

- who want us to pay millions
for alleged loss of income.

But then we read things like this.

Hollywood actors bought
pygmy heads and two castles

Yes... Poor Hollywood.

...change to a name that works globally...

- Thank you for being able to come.
- Everything to assist the investigation.

I was thinking about your own
investigation of The Pirate Bay.

Could there be something there
that you didn't see as relevant-

- which can be of help to us now?

Stefan has received all the material.

- Is there anything in particular you have in mind?
- No, we just want to be extra careful.

- But everything is going well?
- Yes, absolutely. It rolls on.

But thanks for taking the time.

- Will you let me know when you have something new?
- Yes, absolutely. Directly.

- You must have a good day.
- The same.

How are they to work with?
The Americans?

- Good.
- Yeah.

Have a nice time.

They haven't gotten a
crap out of all the servers.

- Are you sure?
- He didn't say it outright.

But why else ask for my old
report, which they already received?

- If they can't access the servers...
- It's back to square one.

Yes.

Thanks for hosting us, Berlin.

Or as John F. Kennedy said: "Ich bin ein Berliner." The

Pirate Bay handles up to 70% of all bittorrent traffic on the internet.

And of all information sent across the
world, bittorrent traffic makes up 80-82%.

If you calculate it, Pirate Bay accounts for
more than half of the world's internet traffic.

A site that started
as a hobby project.

Me and Gottfrid built
the site in our basement.

Yes, it's a funny story.

Invitation to Belgrade But it scares the

crap out of those
who control the culture

and knowledge- - what we consume, and how.

But the world, as you
can see, is changing.

Thanks for having us, Belgrade. Who
here has downloaded from Pirate Bay?

About half. The rest
of you are clearly lying.

With the internet they can no longer
force us to use their old methods-

- and not exploit what
should be a human right.

They are the past, and we are the future.

They just don't know about it yet. Thanks.

- Our purpose was never to exist forever.
- Sorry?

The Pirate Bay wouldn't exist forever. But
the problem is that we have a stalemate.

We are not going away, and neither is
the copyright mafia. Hence the stalemate.

- For a beer in Sweden?
- SEK 50.

Or maybe 39,
if you go to a "sunken pub".

Dump beer and dump people everywhere.

Damn, how cool! They have
approved us. It cost like 500 bucks.

I hereby ordain you as a priest
of the Church of Kopimism.

- Not that damn nonsense!
- What then? They call us a sect.

The judicial system
must not take part in the

communication- - between a priest and his followers.

Listen! Everyone!

The internet is sacred and code is
law. And copying is a human right.

Cheers to the internet!

This is crazy. Some seem to worship technology,
but now it is recognized as religion.

Yes, in Sweden. A church whose central
creed is the right to share files - has

been recognized by the Swedish government.

The so-called
Kopimistsamfundet claims- - that

sharing information through
copying is a religious act.

Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, copy and paste- - are sacred

symbols of the
Copyist...Copyist community.

- Your thoughts on this?
- When I saw Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V...

MediaDefender estimates that the
Pirate Bay has lost 7% of its user base.

- So? Then it works.
- The companies seem to think so anyway.

They are trying to push more
resources via MediaDefender.

Fantastic. See you up there.

It's obvious that someone is messing
with us. The junk files only increase.

- Damn, I thought it was solved.
- Because you stopped thinking about it?

I just mean that it is important
that the site flows well now.

- Huh?
- Yeah.

- Ana, what number did you have?
- 1.

- I have 2.
- I have 3. Then we are all this way.

Here I am.

See you in two hours,
so shall we go out to eat?

That's good. Now I am in Kuala Lumpur.

Yes, that's as good as it gets.

I told you not to worry.

The police strike was ill*gal.
It's nothing.

/COMPUTER RINGING/

Mom... I'll call you back. Bye then.

WORLD'S SMALLEST NATION -
BUY SEALAND

- Internet for two hours.
- Number 5.

We have set up a page where
people can donate money.

- This could be big.
- It will be messy.

Nice? We are talking about
ONE donation of 30 euros per skull.

- Have you heard from Gottfrid?
- He'll come.

We have 25 million users,
so we'll get to that quickly.

Here, check! It was annexed in 1967-

- by some crazy major who wanted to
start a pirate radio channel. It's a given!

- Should we run an entire country?
- A copyright pirate paradise!

- John? You won't believe it.
- What is it?

Pirate Bay has hacked MediaDefender.

All emails between MediaDefender
and the companies are now up on the site.

Both L.A. The Times and the
Guardian have written about it.

It's not flattering.

- The companies break with MediaDefender.
- My God...

This is why the Pirate Bay exists at all.

But the internet is not just a technology
but a foundation for democracy.

And yes, I know that sounds pretentious.

But the Internet will
become an intricate part

of our lives - - and permeate everything we do.

And that...

And that's why...we can't let it be
controlled by the big companies.

/FREDRIK LAUGHING/

I love that site.

Do you? Me along.

I am actually...

It was nothing.

Maybe I can get...buy one for you?

Or I'll buy you one.

Sure.

- How much?
- 200.

Thanks.

- Strong?
- Yes.

- What do you usually download?
- Movies and books.

I love audio books.
Good for learning English.

- What are you doing here?
- We are here for a conference.

We ride around and
talk, just for a few days.

Until we're done, I can't say
anything. But it's pretty sad, actually.

Do you live around here?

- In Laos.
- Well, in Laos? Okay.

- Does that mean you work here?
- Yes.

But my family lives in Laos.

Does your family live in Sweden?

Well... Well, they do.

So we're pretty far
from home, both of them.

You are right about that.

- Hello.
- Hello.

- Why did you pull?
- I bought T-shirts.

- Have you seen Ana?
- No.

Excuse? A beer, please.

I passed by the hotel.
sh*t, his stuff is gone.

- Gone? Has he pulled?
- I don't know.

Without saying anything?

Thanks.

But we still need to roll home soon,
because I am invited to SVT Debatt.

After that I'm invited to a
Wired conference in London.

It's still cool, right?

What is it?

I'm just so damn tired
of all the damn talk.

Damn, we're just going
around like a f*cking circus.

What circus? What are you talking
about? We stand up for Pirate Bay.

- "We"?
- Yes. This is really important.

What really? It's Sealand
and no religion, just bullshit.

- What nonsense? What the hell is wrong with you?
- The Pirate Bay speaks for itself.

Sorry, I didn't know that
only I was invited to speak.

Do you think that's about
it? You always do this.

- Stroke your ego with Pirate Bay.
- Okay, that was WHAT it was about.

- You put the business at risk.
- Damn, you don't even understand what we do!

It's a business! Oded said we
received complaints from the advertisers.

Maybe you should just broaden your
horizons and learn to think for yourself.

I am who I am.

A stupid pig who
drinks too much?

You know what's really sad?

That you based your entire personality
on something that Gottfrid and I built.

What the hell does that say about you?

Or is it just bloody sad
that you think you created it?

Thousands of technicians could
have done exactly what you are doing.

But now I was the one who did it.

f*ck you.

This was a bit unexpected.

- How soon can I get a copy?
- A day or two.

Here we have another Svartholm Warg.

- This is one month's income.
- Oh, then.

/CELL PHONE RINGING/

- So they got to the servers in the end?
- No.

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg-

- one of Europe's best hackers-

- had not encrypted his laptop.

He didn't even have a password for it.

- What have they found?
- Everything.

- Everything?
- Absolutely everything.

Can we have the menus please?

What are you saying? Prepared?

I don't know. I think so. And you?

Always ready.

Hi Monique.

what did you say

Now we buy Sealand



/THE DOOR RINGS/

- Peter Sunde?
- Yes.

You are served. Good evening.

Four men were charged today-

- suspected of helping others
download music and movies.

Among users it has been called
God's own VCR.

The prosecutor's
wording sounds different.

The prosecutor claims that those involved
earned millions of kroner on the site.