TPB AFK
| TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard | |
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| Directed by | Simon Klose |
| Produced by | Martin Persson |
| Screenplay by | Simon Klose |
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82 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish English English (subtitles) |
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is a documentary film released on 8 February 2013, directed by Simon Klose, based on the lives of the three founders of The Pirate Bay: Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Filming began in Summer 2008, and concluded on 25 February 2012.
The film's website was launched on 28 August 2010, along with a Kickstarter campaign to raise US$25,000 to hire an editor after the Court of Appeal trial. The campaign was fully funded within three days and raised $51,424 in total. In February 2011, the Swedish government's Arts Grants Committee Konstnärsnämnden granted the project an additional 200,000 SEK (≈ $30,000).
The full film was released under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND) onto The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites. Also, a four-minute shorter version was released at the same time for those who wish to remix or re-edit their own version of the film, featuring an edit with certain copyright restricted content removed, under a different Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
For those who wish to support the creators, apart from online donations, they can buy the DVD version and digital download. The pre-order price of the DVD is $23 and a digital download is $10, which comes with deleted scenes and bonus material. Pre-orders can be made via the official movie website. TPB AFK's premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on 8 February 2013, opening the festival's documentary section, and was released online for worldwide free download (or purchase) at exactly the same time on YouTube and on The Pirate Bay.
On 19 February 2013, the film was broadcast on BBC Four in the UK as part of the BBC's Storyville documentary series strand.
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