The Pirate Bay im Chaosradio-Interview

Tim ist gerade auf der Reboot-Konferenz in Kopenhagen und hat für den Chaosradio-Podcast einen der Sysadmins von „The Pirate Bay“ zu den Vorkommnissen der letzten Tagen befragt: CRI009 – The Pirate Bay. Das Interview ist ca. 43 Minuten lang und findet sich hier als MP3.

Tim Pritlove talks to Peter who is one of the maintainers and system administrators of The Pirate Bay system which has become the biggest BitTorrent tracker system in the world effectively generating half of Swedens Internet traffic. The system was recently raided by Swedish police after the US government complained about the site to the swedish government. This interview was done two days after this incident happened and while the Pirate Bay System was still offline.

Peter explains what exactly happened during the police raid and explains the history and philosophy behind the anti-copyright scene in Sweden and the technical details of the Pirate Bay system and the BitTorrent protocol in particular. He also explains what the technical difficulities are in maintaining the service and the amount private data the system stores and handles.