TPB AFK

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TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard promotional poster.jpg
Promotional release poster
Directed bySimon Klose
Produced by
  • Martin Persson
  • Simon Klose
  • Signe Byrge Sørensen
  • Anne Köhncke
  • Torstein Grude
Screenplay bySimon Klose
Starring
  • Gottfrid Svartholm
  • Fredrik Neij
  • Peter Sunde
  • Roger Wallis
Music byOla Fløttum
Edited byPer K. Kirkkegaard
Production
company
Nonami AB, Final Cut For Real, Piraya Film AS
Running time
82 minutes
CountrySweden, Denmark, Norway
LanguageSwedish
English
English (subtitles)

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is a 2013 Swedish documentary film directed and produced by Simon Klose. It focuses on the lives of the three founders of The Pirate Bay – Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm – and the Pirate Bay trial.[1] Filming began sometime in 2008, and concluded on 28 February 2012.[2]

Production

The film's website was launched on 28 August 2010, along with a Kickstarter campaign to raise US$25,000 to hire an editor after the Court of Appeal trial.[3] The campaign was fully funded within three days and raised $51,424 in total.[4][5] In February 2011, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Swedish: Konstnärsnämnden) granted the project an additional 200,000 SEK (≈$30,000).[6]

Release

File:TPB AFK - The Pirate Bay documentary official trailer.webm The full film was released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license onto The Pirate Bay, YouTube, and other BitTorrent sites. Additionally, a four-minute shorter version with certain copyright restricted content removed was released at the same time under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license to allow remixing.[7]

TPB AFK premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on 8 February 2013 – opening the festival's 'Panorama Dokumente' section – coinciding with its free online release on YouTube and The Pirate Bay.[8][9]

On 19 February 2013, the film was broadcast on BBC Four in the UK as part of the BBC's Storyville documentary series.[10]

Reception

Peter Sunde, one of the subjects of the documentary, wrote that he has "mixed feelings about the movie and the release of it". Whilst he likes the technical side of the documentary, he has issues with some scenes and general attitude of the documentary; this includes too much focus put on the trial, too dark depiction of it, and portraying himself beyond self-recognition. Despite having such different views on the subject, he regards the director as a friend.[11]

Censorship by Hollywood

In May 2013, Hollywood studios – such as Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate – started to censor Google Search links pointing to the documentary, an action criticized by Simon Klose.[12][13] In June, after the initial controversy, HBO and Lionsgate sent additional bogus DMCA takedown notices to Google requesting the removal of links related to TPB AFK. In response, Simon Klose contacted Chilling Effects, who recommended him to file a DMCA counter-notice once he had found out whether Google had taken down the links or not. Two months later, the censored links were reinstated only after public complaints made by Klose.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Film". http://www.tpbafk.tv/the-film. 
  2. ↑ Klose, Simon (28 February 2012). "The making of the last scene". http://www.tpbafk.tv/2012/02/the-making-of-the-last-scene. 
  3. ↑ Ernesto (27 August 2010). "Pirate Bay The Movie To Be Funded By Peers". TorrentFreak. https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-the-movie-to-be-funded-by-peers-100827/. 
  4. ↑ Ernesto (31 August 2010). "Pirate Bay Movie Fully Funded in Three Days". TorrentFreak. https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-movie-fully-funded-in-three-days-100831/. 
  5. ↑ Klose, Simon (4 October 2010). "5124 thank you's!". http://www.tpbafk.tv/2010/10/51434-thank-yous/. 
  6. ↑ Pettersson, Tina (2 February 2011). "Arbetsstipendier och projektbidrag till teater-, dans- och filmkonstnärer beslutade" (in Swedish). Konstnärsnämnden. https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/default.aspx?id=14150. 
  7. ↑ Klose, Simon (31 January 2013). "Why I chose Creative Commons for TPB AFK". http://www.tpbafk.tv/2013/01/why-i-chose-creative-commons-for-tpb-afk. 
  8. ↑ Ernesto (22 January 2013). "Pirate Bay Documentary First Ever to Premiere Online and at a Major Festival". TorrentFreak. https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-documentary-first-ever-to-premiere-online-and-at-major-festival-130122/. 
  9. ↑ Ernesto (8 February 2013). "TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW". TorrentFreak. https://torrentfreak.com/tpb-afk-watch-and-download-the-pirate-bay-documentary-now-130208/. 
  10. ↑ "BBC Four – Storyville, The Pirate Bay". BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qxms3. 
  11. ↑ Sunde, Peter (7 February 2011). "TPB AFK – My Review". Peter Sunde. https://blog.brokep.com/2013/02/07/tpb-afk-my-review/. 
  12. ↑ Ernesto (19 May 2013). "Hollywood Studios Censor Pirate Bay Documentary". TorrentFreak. https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-studios-take-down-pirate-bay-documentary-130519/. 
  13. ↑ An open letter to the Hollywood studios censoring TPB AFK on YouTube
  14. ↑ Ernesto (7 August 2013). "Hollywood Keeps Censoring Pirate Bay Documentary, Director Outraged". TorrentFreak. https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-keeps-censoring-pirate-bay-documentary-director-outraged-130807/. 

External links

Main sites

Documentary online



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