In 2003, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, a Swedish national, co-founded a website called The Pirate Bay which, over the years, would come to have a notorious reputation as the biggest file sharing website in the world. Boasting over 31 million users, the website has been the relentless target of business and governmental attempts to destroy it through lawsuits and arrests – and yet, ten years later, the website remains the biggest hub of file sharing on Earth (CBS pg1). Its founders have not had the same
“Everybody does it." it is, of course piracy, currently an illegal act which one third of people in Europe do everyday. Piracy is when you digitally download something you haven’t paid for and is not licensed for you to use. The Digital Economy Act (DEA) was passed in 2010 by the last labour government. This ‘law’ is supposed to protect content producers by blocking what's known as torrent websites which allows you to download music, film and games. What is not known about this law is that it allows