Here’s What Happened To The Pirate Bay’s Founders

"Do you think piracy is moral?" It's definitely more moral than selling personal data to third party companies for money or tracking users on a daily basis.

Pirate Bay and chill was a real thing before Netflix.

I grew up in Africa where minimun wage is less than 1$a day so my parents obviously couldn't afford 60$for a new game, so i would've missed those games and content regardless if it weren't for these legends, i am eternally grateful for whatever they did it made my childhood fun as a gamer and movie pirate

Piracy is not moral, it's a obligation. A duty each one of us has to do to keep the internet what it is. Especially in the age of live service and subscription spam

Love how piracy is referred to as immoral, yet more than 80% of companies and services wouldn't know morality if it hit them in the face, double standard?

These guys are legends. They provided access to information that was not available to people who couldn't afford it.

Seriously these guys are legends. They provided me books, movies and other content which wouldn't have been accessible to me otherwise.

From being persecuted by the law to becoming legends of the digital world, The Pirate Bay's founders truly embody the rebel spirit of the internet. Their story is a testament to the power of community and the fight for freedom of information.

Let's put it this way. When I was a kid, my parents had a total income of $300 combined (we live in Eastern Europe). $100 go for food. $100 go for taxes and other shit. $50-$60 go for unplanned expenses. So the whole family of 4, has got like $40 extra money each month. That's your clothes, trips, sweets, toys and so on. A single movie costs $30. Windows costs $300. Photoshop costs $500. A music album costs $15. You tell me, if it's realistic to actually buy any of these things. It was not a choice whether to pirate it or not. It was a question of ever getting access to it or not. These days, things are much better in the country and in my family in particular, so almost everything is bought and not pirated. But piracy is doing a great service to people who don't have a lot of resources. Many children learned languages, received education and gained culture thanks to piracy. Without it, we would have just been isolated from the rest of the world.

Just a friendly reminder: It's always morally accurate to use pirated Adobe

They weren't wrong about piracy. There are plenty of people who can't afford a lot of the software as children but they become familiarized with the software and end up paying for them later in life when they can afford it.

Priorities of the American government: Child labor in Asia for cheap shirts? "Fine." Island in Caribbean for rich deviants? "Sure." Pirated copies of God of War or Halo Reach? "Crucify them!"

Imagine the whole creative industry without the existance of pirated Adobe software.

Imagine paying for adobe software and then it still crashes every 30 minutes lmao

not all the heroes wear a mask or cloak and these guys are no exception, absolute legends.

>Gets arrested for piracy >smuggles usb stick with movies into prison Really shows that piracy is unstoppable.

on behalf of African countries, I salute these guys, we literally can't afford shit, in my country people are getting payed between 140 and 280 USD a month, so... these guys made things possible for us.

Being super honest, these were the dudes who made Internet popular. It is not Google nor Facebook

As someone who visited Pirate Bay in 2021, I can say founders were a legend cause' we don't have credit card to buy anything on the internet so we've decided to use their websites. They'll deserve a medal.

These guys are legends. They are heros. They provided access to information that was not available to people who couldn't afford it.