TPB AFK: THE PIRATE BAY AWAY FROM KEYBOARD
by Simon Klose
synopsis
At the turn of this century, the Swedish file sharing platform The Pirate Bay was growing at a phenomenal rate, enabling internet users to share films and music free of charge. But Hollywood in particular does not pull any punches when it comes to such breaches of copyright and, in 2008, the founders of the platform were put on trial. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde live in their own digital world. They can hardly believe it when the court confuses megabit and megabyte. Seeing themselves as technicians whose aim is to run the world's largest web platform, they claim indignantly that their actions are about freedom, not money. The closer the film gets to them, the more pronounced their lofty perspective on reality becomes.
international title: | TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard |
original title: | TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard |
country: | Sweden, Denmark, Norway |
sales agent: | Autlook Filmsales GmbH |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Simon Klose |
film run: | 85' |
film editing: | Per K. Kirkegaard |
music: | Ola Fløttum |
producer: | Martin Persson, Simon Klose, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Anne Köhncke |
production: | Nonami AB, Anagram Produktion, Final Cut for Real, Piraya Films Norway |