The Pirate Bay wears its pirate eye badge with pride. Launched in 2003, it's a Swedish website that catalogs and tracks BitTorrent files. On 30 June 2009, an advertising company, Global Gaming Factory X AB announced plans to purchase the website for $7.8 million. Here, Rasmus Fleischer reacts and provides context for the changing of hands.

Users of The Pirate Bay are raging.

analysis of the anti-politics of the Pirate Party. reposted from nettime.

With 215,000 votes in the European election from the Swedish precinct, the Internet pirates have winds in their sailes. Miltos asked in a previos posting on this list if similar parties will now spawn in other EU electorates. In the ligth of his question, it can be interesting to note that the two major events which angered people in Sweden to point that they casted their votes for the Pirate Party (PP), had only scantly to do with EU intellectual property directives.