Advance Patrol

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May 312009

I came across this story while following TPB’s Peter:

ENGLISH PRESS RELEASE: Advance Patrol <3 The Pirate Bay

The hiphop group known as Advance Patrol will release its new album on The Pirate Bay today. They will do so to spread their music to as many as possible, and at the same time discredit the prosecution against The Pirate Bay, a prosecution where Advanced Patrol has been used as a scapegoat in the circus around the court proceedings.

- We’re both proud and happy that we’re about to cooperate with Advanced Patrol concerning the distribution of their latest album, says Peter Sunde from The Pirate Bay.
The name “El Futuro” origins from the Spanish word for “the future”, which feels like a direct hit, and suits us “like a glove”.

Advance Patrols latest album, El Futuro, will be released during the Sunday through the worlds largest service for file sharing, namely The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay has, as we speak, approximately twenty million simultaneous users, whom all with this is experiencing a digital release party with internet as its stage.

Advanced Patrol is also the group, who’s album “Aposteln”, is one of others included in the
prosecution of The Pirate Bay. With the release of their new album by Sunday, the group explains that they do not wish to be part of the prosecution against the large.

- We never asked to be plaintiffs in this case, Gonza from Advance Patrol explains, they used us as scapegoats in a fight in which we don’t wish to participate. We refuse to be used in a war against our fans.

- You cannot legislate away file sharing, Gonza says. Those who fileshares our music are also those who appreciate it the most. They are my friends, and friendship is something to be valued highly. That’s why we’re giving away El Futuro to the internet, to our friends.

El Futuro can be downloaded for free from The Pirate Bay. If you wish to show Gonza your appreciation you can always donate what you feel is appropriate via Paypal. Its not a demand, naturally.

For more info, contact Gonza at gonza@globalgonza.com

Also, read more at Gonzas homepage: http://www.globalgonza.com
The Pirate Bay: http://www.thepiratebay.org
Gonzas Paypalaccount: paypal@globalgonza.com

I love this.  I think it was a fabulous idea and I am thrilled to have another example of musicians supporting file downloads.  I downloaded the Advance Patrol album as soon as I heard about it.  As I write this, another 50 people are downloading the CD and over 700 are online sharing the files.

According to Google’s translation of Wikipedia’s swedish, Advance Patrol is a group from Sweden who raps in Spanish, Swedish, and English. All of it’s members are originally from Latin America.  They sound a bit like Winsin y Yandel to me, but thankfully they make more than just reggaeton.  Next time guys, leave the airhorns off the CD altogether!

I can’t say this is my new favorite album, but now I have heard of Advance Patrol, and I am listening to their music.  Great marketing, file-sharers!

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The Pirate Bay Trial

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Feb 242009

[This is my half of a conversation I just had, explaining why I was up at 4am reading news reports from Sweden]

have you ever heard of torrent sharing?

bit torrents

the pirate bay is a website based in sweden

which has torrent tracking software

in other words

it is a catalog for downloading

when i want to download a movie

and i can’t find it by googling “torrent+movie name”

i go to pirate bay and search in their database

and find 10 copies

4 of which have people online and actively sharing the content

now

the way this works is kinda like napster (heard of that?)

the difference is that with napster you had a file, and you gave it to someone else, and napster kept track of who had what

with torrents, however, everyone has the files but everyone shares portions of them, no one ever gives a whole file

it’s a torrent

so it’s hard to track who has what and who is sharing what

and pirate bay has none of it

all they have is lists

of who said they had what, at the time they were online sharing it

["so not technically illegal?"]

technically not

nor are they profiting

but

they have been doing this for like 5 years now

and someone from has finally pushed legal measures all the way through into swedish courts

did you know there is actually a pirate political party in europe?

on the platform of file sharing and transparency and being anti-copyright

imagine

http://thepiratebay.org/legal

these emails make me laugh

the pirate bay is a couple of nerds with really really good lawyers. they are young adults who grew up prosecuted by people who have no jurisdiction to touch them. they have been threatened for as long as they have been around, and it’s usually been by those who are making money off the artists and want more, and very rarely by the artists themselves.

they have a fucking tour bus in front of the courthouse where they are having trial, and they raised $25,000+ euro (if I read the translated page correctly) in online donations to get the tour bus over there and use it as headquarters for the resistance movement during the trial

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