How many of you use or have used The Pirate Bay?

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If you in any way like what they do, please just sign your name here:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Grant_ ... or_pardon/

This is his request for clemency.
It is quite shocking and I have to say I'm ashamed of Sweden for handling it so badly.

http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/06/afterma ... own-words/

I have and still do for music and sometimes movies. Are they being shut down? If so that would be horrible, losing Megaupload this year was enough of a blow.

They aren't being shut down, well, not successfully anyhow. Anyway, this guy, Peter Sunde, was the former spokesperson for TPB. He's facing a one year prison sentence here in Sweden and after that he'll have to pay 10 million euros. He haven't actually done ANYTHING illegal and this is a sign up petition to stop that from happening.

If you have the time, read through his plea, it's horrifying and scary. Especially since Sweden claims to be a honest and not corrupted country. I should know, I live in it.

Piratebay isn't going anywhere, and even if it got taken down there are 1000s more torrent sites to replace it.

They've blocked it in my country for several internet providers, including mine, after a court order on behalf of a political pressure group. Needless to say, it took us less than an hour after the announcement, and several days before the block went into effect, to have dozens of backups, mirror sites and proxies available. I'm still using it almost every day, even though I can't access the website itself, because many of the things I'm looking for are exceedingly hard to find anywhere but on the internet here. Cult movies, old films, shows not broadcast here, shows blocked here, episodes of shows I couldn't watch - those things.

Basically, instead of the normal website, I visit the same website under a different name. The files remain the same, and accessible to all. However, I'm watching my behaviour online now - the website has been blocked on a court order, and PeerBlock suggests that any torrent I have is being watched by several European "authors' rights" companies that have previously brought random charges against people for their involvement in these things.

I'm suspicious of such websites and content being a source of viruses. At a place I used to work people ran file sharing or Napster like programs and contaminated the work computer with Malware.

I manage to checkout enough bands on YouTube.

Otherwise, some smaller bands are wising up to the internet just making most of their content free on their own website. They know this gets the word out so they can draw people to concerts where they make their real money.