An interview with Peter Sunde of the famous BitTorrent tracker site
Chaosradio International CRI009 Veröffentlicht am: 02.06.2006, 21:00 Uhr Aufnahme vom: 02.06.2006, 12:00 Uhr http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cri009.html Teilnehmer: Tim Pritlove (Moderation), Peter Sunde The Pirate Bay An interview with Peter Sunde of the famous BitTorrent tracker site Tim Pritlove talks to Peter Sunde 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. Links: * reboot conference Copenhagen http://reboot.dk/ * The Pirate Bay Web Site http://thepiratebay.org/ * Wikipedia: The Pirate Bay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay * BitTorrent protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent * Peer-to-peer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer * Wikipedia: PiratbyrÄn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyr%C3%A5n * PiratbyrÄn http://www.piratbyran.org/ * Svenska antipiratbyrÄn (Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svenska_antipiratbyr%C3%A5n * AntipiratbyrÄn Web Site http://www.antipiratbyran.com/ * Piratpartiet (Pirate Party) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party * ABBA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA * Britney Spears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Spears * Backstreet Boys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstreet_Boys * Ingmar Bergman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman * 22C3: Rasmus Fleischer http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/speakers/471.en.html * 22C3: The grey commons http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/1101.en.html * Sweden general election, 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_general_election%2C_2006 * Hash value http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function * Suprnova.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprnova.org * PRQ Web Hosting http://prq.se/ * MPAA Press Release "SWEDISH AUTHORITIES SINK PIRATE BAY" (PDF) http://mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_05_31.pdf * Guantanamo Bay Naval Base http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base Music: * Seth Gekko - Close Up http://www.minimalmusik.net/gekko/?p=22 * Seth Gekko http://www.seth-gekko.de/