Music pirates want to buy a state
16 January 2007The sea platform can become a zone without the copyright
Owners of The Pirate Bay piracy network, providing its users with a free-of-charge piracy musical files, are going to buy the island located approximately in 8 kilometers from the Great Britain. Thus they wish to avoid the responsibility for the infringement of copyrights.
The island is a sea platform which was left by the British militaries in 1966. However in same year the major of British army Paddy Roy Bates has proclaimed a platform as the independent state with a hereditary monarchy under name Sealand. The major has declared himself as Prince Roy.
For many years Roy has been making money on tourists by selling passports, money, stamps and other attributes of the independent state. Everyone could become a lord or baron for 30 pounds sterling. In 90s the powerful Internet-servers have established on the platform; this business has brought quite good incomes to the Prince and his family. Then, the authority of the “country” has subsequently passed to the major’s son Michael who, after a fire on island in June, 2006, has counted, that the expenses for its repair would not be paid back, and has exposed the platform on sale.
The “authorities” of the Sealand and the Swedish pirates are worth of each other - both parties had problems with the law. The first managed to get away from the punishment. In 1968 British fleet has tried to throw the major out of the island; however, the Court has decided that the platform is out of Great Britain’s territorial waters and it is not under jurisdiction of this country. The second (Swedish pirates) are constantly attacked by the law enforcement bodies. The authorities of the USA and Sweden are actively trying to close their site.
In pirates’ opinion, the purchase of the platform will give them freedom and independence. There they want to establish the state where the basic international laws including the law on the copyright will not operate. However, it is likely that the purchase won’t take place: a Spanish real-estate Company, engaged into the trade of islands, has offered to Prince Michael almost $1 billion for the island while the owners of the piracy site managed to collect only $14 thousand.
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