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The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand
The operators of The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker, are raising funds to try and buy the "micronation of Sealand." The gunnery platform on the North Sea, which was converted into a colocation data haven, is seeking buyers. The Pirate Bay has launched BuySealand.com (link via Liam Eagle), which is offering citizenship to anyone who donates money to the cause.
The Pirate Bay is the kind of operation that the founders of HavenCo had in mind when they converted Sealand into a colocation facility. The site's servers were seized by Swedish police last May, but soon relaunched. Its traffic has been growing ever since, and is now among the top 350 sites in the world, according to Alexa. A BitTorrent Tracker is a server which directs uploading and downloading of packets on BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file distribution system.
The BuySealand effort has quickly gained traffic and attention, with more than 2,000 users registered in the site's online forum already. That may not be enough to be taken seriously, as Sealand's "royal family" apparently wants to sell the platform for £65m, or about $127 million.
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By Rich Miller 
January 12, 2007 | Permalink | >Get Posts By E-mail
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