Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 15

Today in 2003 The Pirate Bay was founded, the most iconic and resilient of all file-sharing platforms. It was born in the context of a widespread sense of entitlement among Scandinavians who see the American content industries as an ungrateful beneficiary of the fertile breeding ground of pop music that Scandinavia is, with international names like Abba and Roxette.


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