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TPB FOUNDERS ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE “THE PIRATE BAY” TV SERIES (UPDATE)

April 7, 2023 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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The six-part "The Pirate Bay" series will start filming this fall, a year later
than expected. The production is in the hands of B-Reel Films, a renowned studio
with offices in Sweden and L.A., and the 'rights' for the project are already
being sold globally. The Pirate Bay's founders won't see a penny and inform us
that they are not in any way involved.

Two years ago, reports began to surface about a new six-part TV-series on The
Pirate Bay’s turbulent history.

The project was initially scheduled to start last year but after an apparent
delay, filming is now expected to begin this fall.

PIRATE BAY TV SERIES

The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are definitely a worthy subject
for a series. While most pirate sites hid in the shadows, Pirate Bay’s founders
were public figures, who openly taunted the entertainment industries.

Speaking with Variety, head-writer Piotr Marciniak explains that his screenplay
is based on a wealth of archive material as well as interviews with the site’s
founders.

“It’s a classic rise and fall story, a tragedy about flying too close to the
sun, but also a timeless story of a generational conflict,” Marcimiak said.

The people involved in the “The Pirate Bay” series are clearly looking forward
to getting the project running. The production is in the hands of B-Reel Films,
working for the Swedish broadcaster SVT, while the American distribution company
Dynamic Television scooped up worldwide rights.

SELLING THE PIRATE BAY ‘RIGHTS’

Indeed, the rights to The Pirate Bay series are actively traded. The same will
likely happen to pirated copies of the episodes when they’re illicitly posted to
The Pirate Bay, but it’s unclear whether the rightsholders have plans to crack
down on unauthorized sharing.

It’s nonetheless interesting to read that the story about a site that rebelled
against the exploitation of copyrights, is being copyrighted and sold off. Would
The Pirate Bay founders approve of that? Are they even involved?

The Pirate Bay series aims to tell the history of the notorious pirate site and
co-founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Gottfrid Svartholm, but none appear
to be actively involved.

FOUNDERS DENY INVOLVEMENT

TorrentFreak spoke with both Sunde and Neij, who both confirm they were not
interviewed for the upcoming series, even though it aims to document an
important and hectic part of their lives.

“Nope, they didn’t interview me for the TV series,” Fredrik says. “Also. I’m not
sure who they bought the rights from… They didn’t pay me at least.”

“And I know Anakata would have had nothing to do with it,” Fredrik adds,
referring to co-founder Gottfrid, who prefers to live his life away from the
public spotlight in recent years.

Peter and Fredrik

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde previously said that he was flattered by the
idea of a Pirate Bay series, adding that it’s also a bit nerve-wracking. This
week, however, Sunde confirmed that he is in no way involved either.

Pirate Bay’s co-founder actually discussed the TV project idea with the show’s
writer Piotr Marciniak a few years ago but declined to sell his story. Instead,
he was, and still is, working on a potentially competing film project.

Later on, Sunde also met with the series’ director and someone from the
production company B-Reel Films, who told him that they had no one from the
Pirate Bay team who wanted to cooperate. That didn’t convince him to change his
mind, however.

F*CK OFF

As mentioned earlier, the Variety piece mentions that the upcoming Pirate Bay
series draws from key interviews with Sunde and Svartholm. However, the Pirate
Bay co-founder says that he wasn’t interviewed for the series.

“I have not given any deep interview, and when I met with them they said that
Gottfrid had told them to fuck off. Which sounds more true to his character..,”
Peter Sunde tells us.

We also reached out to B-Reel Films to hear their side of the story, but the
company didn’t immediately reply. However, based on the comments from Sunde and
Neij it is safe to conclude that they are not in any way involved.

Of course, the rightsholders of The Pirate Bay TV series are free to send some
of the revenues to the founders of the site, who ultimately paid for their
ideals with their freedom. Sunde doesn’t expect to get paid anytime soon,
however.

“Movie studios moved to Hollywood since they didn’t want to pay for stories.
They were the original pirates,” Sunde says.

“It’s been ironic to see them going after pirates in court for years and even
more ironic to see them pirate the pirate story. Hoping it will turn out nice so
I can pirate a copy of it. Maybe I’ll get sued for downloading the story about
us.”

Update April 8:

Fredrik Heinig, founder and managing partner of B-Reel Films was kind enough to
clear up that, indeed, none of the TPB founders were interviewed in detail for
the series. The production team did speak to several people who were close to
TPB, as well as its adversaries.

“We interviewed more than 20 people around and in TPB, Piratbyrån, and
Antipiratbyrån for our project,” Heinig says.

“Piotr talked to Peter and I and the director Jens met and spoke to Peter in
Malmö, I have also talked to him two more times on the phone, but Peter never
wanted to do a deep interview, as you know has ambitions to tell his story in a
film by himself. Piotr met Gottfrid and had a very short talk.”

“We tried to reach both Gottfrid and Fredrik for longer interviews without any
luck. So it’s a misunderstanding from Variety to say that our series is based on
interviews with the founders, it’s based on heavy research and interviews with
people around them and others.”

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