Pirate Bay to Hollywood: Open your Own Torrent Site
Date : 2008 03 12 Category : Web News
TorrentFreakPeter Sunde and Fredrik Neij from The Pirate Bay recently did a video interview which resulted in some great quotes. One such quote comes from Fredrik, he suggests that the movie and music industry should set up their own torrent site, and monetize it through advertisements. “We would be out of business.” he added.
Dayrobber, the site that did the interview, is a new web-tv site that publishes 5 minute short shows. The initial plan was to release the second and the third part of the interview on Thursday and Friday, but especially for TorrentFreak they decided to release all three parts today.
Part 1In the first part of the interview Fredrik (TiAMO) and Peter (Brokep) talk about the goal that they have for the Pirate Bay, which basically comes down to uncensored sharing. Of course, they are also asked about the millions they make from the site. Peter says that he’s not making any money from it, his income mainly comes from the speeches and seminars he gives. Fredrik adds that it is hard to monetize a BitTorrent tracker, because the legal gray zone makes the ad prices drop.
The pirate bay does plan to launch a few side-projects that will eventually make them some money, such as the videobay and playble, a site where artists can put up their music for free, which will be monetized by advertisers.
Part 2
In the second part of the interview Fredrik advises the movie and music industry to start their own torrent site, and put The Pirate Bay out of business. Peter briefly comments on the upcoming trial, which is a good pr-stunt for The Bay in his opinion.
The interviewer then asks: “We think the design of your website sucks, don’t you know any designers.” Peter responds by saying that the designers he knows are very hard to work with. Fredrik says he rather focuses on securep2p, the new faster and anonymous p2p protocol based on BitTorrent he’s currently working on.
Peter goes on by saying that Denmark the new North-Korea, when the recent block by the Danish ISP comes up.
Part 3
In the third and last part the upcoming trial against the Pirate Bay comes up again. Peter says that he is pretty confident: ” We’re not going to lose the case.”
They further discuss copyright, why mashups are often more interesting than the mainstream media, and how more and more people are consumers and producers
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Pirate Bay to Hollywood: Open your Own Torrent Site