If Buying Isn’t Owning, Piracy Isn’t Stealing

This video is sponsored by Okara. May 31st, 2006 . The founder of the pirate bay receives a call waking him up . Time for the silence . He rushes out, gets into a cab, but realizes that he's too late . See, this is a plan orchestrated to ruin everything the founder built . And as the founders and their lawyers are taken into custody , they helplessly witness the police raid their 10 data centers . This has been Hollywood's plan for years , and now it's being executed flawlessly . As Hollywood's internal calculations point to billions in lost revenue from piracy , they needed to stop this. The MPAA, their link to Washington DC , was the organization to pull this off . And after years of plotting, lobbying, and diplomatic threats against the Swedish government , eventually the MPAA got the raid they had wanted . They had finally taken the Pirate Bay offline . For the founders, it was now looking like their dream of a free able to control the way we were doing things . And as they are hauled into police stations , it looks like it would all come crumbling down , bulldozed by Hollywood lobbyists and compromised officials . Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America , seemed to declare victory . quote, "The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a reminder to pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbors for internet's copyright thieves . But then 3 days later, the pirate bay is back online , only this time with a new logo." Hollywood failed catastrophically , making their pirates bay problem 10 times worse . The site is now more popular than has ever been with thousands of new visitors from the international publicity