Pirate Bay to Purchase Sealand?

paulraps writes "Notorious Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to get around troublesome international copyright laws. The organization, the world's largest bit torrent tracker, has set its sights on Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea that has been designated a 'micronation' and claims to be outside UK jurisdiction. With a target price of £500m it won't be cheap, but Pirate Bay says contributors will become honorary citizens."

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Re:problem...

[Anonymous Coward]

Errr, the same thing stopping them doing that sort of thing with the current pirate bay servers. Terrorism and murder is pretty much illegal everywhere.

No, it's easy to carry out terrorism and murder legally. It's like Iraq - just get Britain to help. All the RIAA needs to do is:

1. Lobby the US Government (they are good at doing this).
2. The US Government declares war on Sealand, saying that it is a haven for terrorists (the new word for copyright infringers, just like "liberal" now means "terrorist sympathizer").
3. The US Government gets Britain, their allies and best friends, to invade the evil terrorist dictatorship of Sealand and install democracy.
4. The terrorists are all killed! No-one can download pirated music any more!
5. Profit!
6. RIAA wins.

Re:And the **aa would say..

[hador_nyc]

As long as **aa talks, terrorist have won.

Honestly, hasn't this joke been worn out; even on /.? Whomever modded this comment up made a mistake. Please think of something original. I agree with your sentiment, but am tired of the lame joke that's been overused; even if it was funny the first few times I've seen it here on /..