The Pirate Bay is one of the best known file-sharing brands and the site has a well-earned place in Internet history.
The BitTorrent site and its founders have been targeted by several court cases over the years, and Swedish filmmaker and producer Simon Klose has documented part of this struggle.
The result is TPB AFK, a dark documentary that follows the three Pirate Bay founders during their trials in Sweden up until the final verdict. The project started more than four years ago and today it premieres at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival.
In a world first the documentary is available simultaneously on a BitTorrent tracker near you as part of the official release.
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For those who have been following TorrentFreak for a while the film will not bring many shocking revelations. However, it does provide a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on the dozens of news events that were reported during the Pirate Bay trials.
What not many people know is that the three founders of The Pirate Bay often pretended to get along in public, but had some big fallouts in private. This also becomes apparent in the documentary.
Peter Sunde, one of the three founders followed in the documentary, previously told TorrentFreak that he has mixed feelings about the final TPB AFK cut but that “it tells an important story.”
TPB-AFK highlights a lot of the negative events the three founders went through, ending with the final guilty verdict early last year. Needless to say these events had quite an impact on their lives.
“It’s still a fucked up story and the film makes me think about the past years of my life quite a lot,” Sunde says.
The Pirate Bay founder added that he might have chosen other material to include and that many of the good parts have been left out.
“It’s Simon’s decision what to include and it’s his view of our story. I like that he’s independent from us and that he’s promised to release lots of extra material for some of the things that I might have wanted to have included,” Sunde said.
Those who’ve seen TPB AFK will understand Sunde’s sentiment. Perhaps that’s what makes the documentary even more compelling. A must watch.
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