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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Sealand turns down offer from file-sharing organization


Here is a follow up from the original posting Swedish Website Plans to Purchase Sealand on January 15.

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The plan by Swedish-based file-sharing organisation PirateBay.org to purchase the self-declared micronation of Sealand has been flatly rejected by ‘Prince’ Michael Bates. Speaking in a CBC television interview, Bates made it clear he was against file sharing. “It’s theft of proprietary rights, it doesn’t suit us at all,” he said. “In fact, I’ve written a book and Hollywood is making a movie out of it, so it would go right against the grain to go into the file sharing thing.”Watch the CBC InterviewMore on this story:Swedish file-sharing website plans to buy Sealand
(Source: R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)