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Unni Drougge’s Quest For Great Profit

purpleflagship — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:07:00 +0000

Let a friend help you record an audio book (gt)
Register PayPal account (unnidrougge [Email address: unnidrougge #AT# unnidrougge.com - replace #AT# with @ ])
Put audio book on The Pirate Bay
Profit 1(gt) 2(gt) 3(gt)

Damn us cheap pirates! Drougge managed to cover her costs for the recording in a manner of hours and the damn pirates downloading her book from The Pirate Bay for free JUST WONT STOP PAYING HER… I mean, geesh we have a reputation to uphold…

Since google translates are a little iffy, here’s the story in a nut shell. Drougge got really pissed at the Spectrial verdict and her fellow authors for hailing the verdict as their salvation. So she made a proof of concept, recorded her latest book as a 96kb/s mono MP3 and uploaded it as a torrent on TPB. The TPB crew convinced her to register at PayPal which she hadn’t considered on her own and helped her make a nfo-template for her torrent. The torrent hovers around 1000 seeders and transfer speed of 2.5mb/s have been reported.

From said nfo:

I won’t allow myself to become cannon fodder for a derailed entertainment industry that works together with underhanded political forces prepared to use any and all methods to dethrone our biggest democratic platform

While she was at it she also grabbed the mic at the Stockholm demonstration against the verdict, unasked i might add.

So the lesson here? You earn more money and get a stronger brand from allowing people to pay, then from forcing them. Even our damn TV license collection agency has figured this out…

Epic fail. The Pirate Bay crew sentenced to one year in prison.

purpleflagship — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:26:57 +0000

All four accused in the Pirate Bay trial are sentenced to one year in prison. Verdict here in swedish. The Pirate Party pressrelase calls this “our ticket into the European Parliament”.

Preparation was cut form the sentence, but assisting in copyright infringement was kept.

What suprises me the most is that all four got the same sentence. Convicting a would-be financial backer, that pulled out before the deal was finalized just doesn’t make sense.

Ah well. Bets on eta of the appeal? I call wednesday. I mean, Spectrial season one needs a cliffhanger right! And what better day then “wednesday”! Right?!

UPDATE: Come to think of it. Convicting the only one in the bunch with any actual money and then making them pay the fines as a group, would be the only way to get any money from the. Fines were set to 30m sek which is about 2,7m €. Quite a bit lower from the 117m sek they demanded during the trial.

UPDATE2: Scaber Nestor offers some links to internation media. BBC, Reuters, AsiaOne, Sky News, Guardian

Also at The Local.

Norwegian TV Deploys Their own BitTorrent Tracker.

purpleflagship — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:04:27 +0000

Yesterday NRK announced that they will start up their own BitTorrent Tracker using the same beerware licensed OpenTracker that The Pirate Bay has been using for several years now. They will also supply Norwegian subtitles to all content and promise to link to your subs if you add more languages to that. Why are they doing this?

By using BitTorrent we can reach our audience with full quality media files. Experience from our early tests show that if we’re the best provider of our own content we also gain control of it.

This is simply amazing and who knows, maybe Norway will be online Hollywood?