The Pirate Bay is not in Sweden. It's a distributed system. We don't know where the servers are. We gave them to people we trust and they don't know it's The Pirate Bay.
But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.
The Pirate Bay was never for the money.
They are obviously pirate services. Sure they might be able to survive as small businesses, but it's hard to get advertisers to advertise on a pirate site. It's a hugely fragmented market.
I see Flattr as a natural extension of Pirate Bay.
We are four individuals on trial. But The Pirate Bay has its own life. It is not dependent on us as persons.
In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralized system.
The most ironic thing is that The Pirate Bay's enemies include not just the U.S. government but also many European and the Russian one.
No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.
Pirate Bay gives you the opportunity to share information for free, but there is also a need for something where you can share money as well.
The Pirate Bay has its own trackers. We have more info on the torrents since people upload them to the site and describe them.
Every time anyone did an advertisement on The Pirate Bay they would get a call from the record or movie industry saying they'll sue them for financially assisting with a crime.
My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and who they want to share it with.