| Pirates of Sealand, kingdom of P2P |
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| Monday, 15 January 2007 | ||||
 Another unconventional project in pure “Pirate Style” has been recently presented by the Crew of the popular BitTorrent tracker website Piratebay.org . The organization declared the intention of buying Sealand, a former British naval platform six miles off the eastern shores of Britain that has been designated a 'micronation', and claims to be outside the jurisdiction of the UK or any other country. Sealand is actually considered as a princedom, an independent state that last year risked to be wiped off by fire. Now the heir of the self-proclaimed prince decided to offer the reign for sale and the “Pirates” considered this occasion as an opportunity to create the first country where file sharing would be completely legal and P2P would have no restriction at all. Internet-addicted already looking for citizenship forms? Actually a donation could be enough, indeed Piratebay hopes to collect the money to buy the island through a “Donation Campaign” that should involve thousands of PirateBay users. Any contributor would get citizenship. Money collection will be neither easy nor fast since Prince Michael Bates, the son of the founder of Sealand, asked £504 million for his reign, but PirateBay spokesmen declared that they are still negotiating about the price.
Anyway don’t worry: according to the official blog , in case PirateBay will not reach the required sum of money, it will search for another island to buy and set up its “dream-world” that “should be a great place for everybody. With high-speed Internets access, no copyright laws and VIP accounts to The Pirate Bay.” The creation of an independent country where to set up PirateBay’s headquarter would undoubtedly be a solution to avoid problems and conflicts with movie/record/software industry, as it happened last June when the web site was blocked by police for violation of copyright laws and restored after about one month . PirateBay is moreover the flagship of a national file-sharing movement that's generating an intense national debate, and has even spawned a pro-filesharing political party named Pirate Party. PirateBay isn’t the first organization that has ever tried to create an independent nation for free Internet and P2P. Indeed in 2001 there had been an attempt to move “dear,old” Napster to Sealand in order to save it. The attempt failed, but the idea was kept and developed for a future use. Now, the future has come and we can’t look forward to see if the kingdom of P2P will become real.
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