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The Pirate Bay — "Just a Very Large Hobby"

Posted by timothy on from the but-robin-hood-wasn't-a-rude-hidebound-dreamer dept.

praps writes "In a fascinating interview with two of the founders of The Pirate Bay entitled 'Are they baby-eating monsters or what?,' Swedish news site The Local discovers that far from being the radical Robin Hoods of the digital age, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij are actually 'polite, humorous and down-to-earth.' They may run one of the biggest sites in the world but 'it's just a hobby that's grown to be very, very large.' Financially, they are 'happy as long as it doesn't make a loss,' and both hold down regular IT day jobs. And apparently they spend a lot of time with a Bedouin in the Sinai desert."

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  1. Re:missing semicolon by yincrash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and i guess it got fixed. that was fast.

  2. the tent! by Coraon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hehe what do you want to bet that if the picture showed the inside of the tent it would show the pirate bays off site backup server...I mean even microsoft uses tent computing...

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  3. Hobby on, dudes! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... and keep sticking a weed up The Man's ass!

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  4. Re:missing semicolon by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    As long as we're being pedantic, it should be an "em dash" (two words).

    Some style guides do allow the use of the en dash surrounded by space, although the predominant english guides suggest using em dash without surround spaces.

    It also hasn't been completely fixed, it's still missing the semicolon in the title element.

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