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Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

The Pirate Bay made its debut as a TV series on Swedish public television today. But finding a pirated copy is proving surprisingly difficult.

Founded by the Piratbyrån group, The Pirate Bay and its founders embraced the power of the new BitTorrent technology: to copy culture en masse. This chapter didn’t end as planned for the lead characters; Fredrik Neij (TiAMO), Peter Sunde (Brokep), and Gotffrid Svartholm (Anakata), who were eventually sentenced to prison. This includes the people at the Swedish production company B-Reel Films, who got the green light to turn it into a TV series a few years ago.

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