Exclusive: The Pirate Bay Blasts FRA Law Passing

It has been a fast moving story with word early on yesterday that major protests were happening outside the Swedish Parliamentary buildings on the day of the vote and the subsequent passing of the controversial law. We here at ZeroPaid just received comments from Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay on how they feel about the new legislation.

The Lex Orwell law, which is also known as the FRA law, would allow a major supercomputer to conduct a major warrentless wiretapping program on the citizens within Sweden. Anything from internet communications to land-line communications would be monitored. The law passed last evening.

One major voice against the legislation has come from The Pirate Bay, one of the worlds largest and longest running BitTorrent trackers. At the time, the administrators of The Pirate Bay called the legislation “a major threat against our civil rights”.

We spoke to Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay on the subject of the FRA law passing and he doesn’t seem happy with the new law.

“The government essentially couped the voting.” Sunde told ZeroPaid, “They did every undemocratic thing they could to pass the law. And they still try to fool the people that this is about external threats although there is no way this system could be used for that. We’re not happy about it and we will continue fighting against it, but in different ways.”

With the movement against the FRA law being so big in Sweden, Sunde is far from alone in the opposition to the Lex Orwell law. It will be interesting to see what specifically these ‘different ways’ would entail since the administrators of The Pirate Bay are always finding cool new ways to improve their services.

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