Swedish pirates want to grab the kingdom
In an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws, Swedish Internet pirates are raising money to buy the former Fort Roughs , two fortified towers in the North Sea, 12 miles from British territorial waters. They explain their desire to acquire this object by the need for a unique offshore zone with no laws in the field of intellectual property.
Fort Roughs is a generally original place. During World War II, it was erected for the needs of British air defense, and as such it existed, until it suddenly became the self-appointed state of Sealand. It happened in 1967 - on the day of the landing on the object of a retired British Army major Paddy Roy Bates, who settled in the Roughs towers to live, declaring the fort his own principality. In it, Bates independently married the kingdom, becoming King Roy I.
The people of Silend, consisting at the time of the founding of the principality from the family of Bates and a handful of "close" (no more than 10 people, according to Wikipedia), have a national flag, currency, and even Silend passports. Now he has a new ruler - "prince" Michael, son of Roy I, who inherited the towers, but not the imperial ambitions of his father. Recently, he expressed his willingness to sell his kingdom, which, in his opinion, could attract commercial structures interested in the "offshore" method of tax planning, for example, some casinos or banks. It should be noted that as a sovereign state, Sealand is not recognized by any country in the world, but the question of its legal status is still controversial. At the same time, in 1968 a British court ruled that Great Britain could not lay claim to Sealand, since the principality was outside its territorial waters.
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Interest in buying Silenda, as has been said, is actively shown by outsiders in the Internet industry. In particular, the owners of the Swedish file-sharing network The Pirate Bay are very eager to buy a principality in order to get rid of the increased attention paid to their activities by the local police. To this end, the initiative group organized a campaign to collect contributions for the “common cause” and now has an amount of $ 13,714 . The network participants will have to collect about $ 950 million, because Silend realtors have estimated this amount, the Swedish edition of The Logal reports .
Despite the existing difference in the amounts, the initiative group of The Pirate Bay tomorrow intends to conduct Internet negotiations with the government of Silend, during which we will talk about the future of micronation. The blog Buy Sealand sets out a hope: “It will be a wonderful place for anyone with high-speed Internet: instead of copyright, privileged access to The Pirate Bay network.”
Fort Roughs is a generally original place. During World War II, it was erected for the needs of British air defense, and as such it existed, until it suddenly became the self-appointed state of Sealand. It happened in 1967 - on the day of the landing on the object of a retired British Army major Paddy Roy Bates, who settled in the Roughs towers to live, declaring the fort his own principality. In it, Bates independently married the kingdom, becoming King Roy I.
The people of Silend, consisting at the time of the founding of the principality from the family of Bates and a handful of "close" (no more than 10 people, according to Wikipedia), have a national flag, currency, and even Silend passports. Now he has a new ruler - "prince" Michael, son of Roy I, who inherited the towers, but not the imperial ambitions of his father. Recently, he expressed his willingness to sell his kingdom, which, in his opinion, could attract commercial structures interested in the "offshore" method of tax planning, for example, some casinos or banks. It should be noted that as a sovereign state, Sealand is not recognized by any country in the world, but the question of its legal status is still controversial. At the same time, in 1968 a British court ruled that Great Britain could not lay claim to Sealand, since the principality was outside its territorial waters.
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Interest in buying Silenda, as has been said, is actively shown by outsiders in the Internet industry. In particular, the owners of the Swedish file-sharing network The Pirate Bay are very eager to buy a principality in order to get rid of the increased attention paid to their activities by the local police. To this end, the initiative group organized a campaign to collect contributions for the “common cause” and now has an amount of $ 13,714 . The network participants will have to collect about $ 950 million, because Silend realtors have estimated this amount, the Swedish edition of The Logal reports .
Despite the existing difference in the amounts, the initiative group of The Pirate Bay tomorrow intends to conduct Internet negotiations with the government of Silend, during which we will talk about the future of micronation. The blog Buy Sealand sets out a hope: “It will be a wonderful place for anyone with high-speed Internet: instead of copyright, privileged access to The Pirate Bay network.”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4946/
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