The LA Times ran a profile of The Pirate Bay this weekend. The BitTorrent indexing site sticks up its nose at the MPAA and copyright holders around the world.The LA Times ran a profile of The Pirate Bay this weekend. The BitTorrent indexing site sticks up its nose at the MPAA and copyright holders around the world.
The Stockholm-based site has garnered support in Sweden, and the state-registered Pirate Party has almost as many members as the Green Party in that country.
Probably the most interesting tidbit in the article though, is a quote from Pirate Bay software designer Peter Sunde, who says the group is working on a new file-sharing technology that will make file exchanges “untraceable.” No word on exactly how this technology will work, but it will be an open-source program.
[via Wired's Epicenter]