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Ex-Pirate Bay Admin Launches Micropayment Service
spyrochaete writes "Peter Sunde, formerly 'brokep' of The Pirate Bay, recently launched a beta version of Flattr — a micropayment service enabling internet users to tender cash payments to any participating content publisher. Its model enables users to divvy monthly subscription fees as donations awarded to the musicians, bloggers, photographers, or other publisher of their choice.
Sunde tells the BBC, 'We want to encourage people to share money as well as content,' and asserts, 'people love things and they want to pay.'"
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If you're genuinely comparing someone who offered free movies and music via his website and was smacked down for it to NELSON FUCKING MANDELA and you're not high, you need to sort your fucking priorities out.
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Yes, but under "common sense law" it does.
Imagine somebody turned up at your front door and say, hey, why don't you give me some money? I'll make it easier for you to donate to charity! And you say, wait, didn't I read about you being found guilty of something, and he says "yes but don't worry, I'm appealing!" - is that going to reassure you? It sure as hell wouldn't make me feel better.
But it gets worse for Mr "brokep". The Pirate Bay deliberately antagonized the people he is now trying to help. He ignored DMCA takedowns and told anyone who would listen why he was right and the rest of the world was wrong. During the trial where he was found guilty, he believed it was going "quite well". And his business partners have a history of harassment, like the "ddo$" scheme against the opposition law firm.
Like all the of the guys who ran the pirate bay, they have spent the last few years proving the world that they're stupid and untrustworthy. I can't think of a worse person to run something like Flattr.