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The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service

torrentfreak.com — In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.

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  • davotoula, on 04/17/2008, -8/+65This is a great initiative but besides copyrighted material, what else is legal but in risk of being shut down by a standard blog host?
    • MikeonTV, on 04/17/2008, -2/+29good point. Unless you're in Egypt
      • davotoula, on 04/17/2008, -1/+2Ah but even if you are in Egypt, you can use a web/blog host located in a "free" country (at least I hope so)
      • cawpin, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Why are we linked to torrentfreak on a story about a blog service launched by TPB? Link to TPB or to the damned service.
    • fkr3, on 04/17/2008, -7/+24Nothing. Google, LiveJournal, Wordpress etc only remove illegal stuff and spam. BayWords is pretty much guaranteed to do that as well - they do with their also "uncensored" image hosting site.

      It's just another move by TPB to create completely-legal sites they can fall back on, but with such a half-arsed setup I don't think they're about to be a competitor for WordPress, LiveJournal or Blogger.
      • brstilson, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3Their blog essentially is wordpress
        • appleswitch, on 04/17/2008, -0/+5Their blog IS Wordpress. Wordpress MU, multiple user distribution.
    • Planets, on 04/17/2008, -21/+11You should know by now that Pirate Bay doesn't care if they break the law. =)
      • wellyuk, on 04/17/2008, -1/+25How have they broken the law to date?
        • Planets, on 04/17/2008, -12/+1Piracy isn't illegal in Sweden?
          • wellyuk, on 04/17/2008, -0/+12Sure it is. Are they serving pirated software and music? No, they're not.
          • iandigg, on 04/17/2008, -0/+4They're not involved in piracy - they simply index torrents in much the same way as google indexes web pages or your phone company indexes people in their phone book. No content is stored. Some of the torrents may be of illegal files in the same way as your phone book may contain the number of a criminal.
          • yessuz, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1AAAARGH... im from sweden.. Im a Pirat!!! AAAARGH... I will sink your ship.
      • Firehed, on 04/17/2008, -2/+32They don't care if they break US law. Which is quite understandable, as they're not located in the US. They're remarkably careful not to break their local laws.
        • wellyuk, on 04/17/2008, -5/+7It's not a case of caring or otherwise of breaking US law. US law has absolutely no precedence in Sweden so it caring has nothing to do with it. It simply doesn't apply.
      • rpgmaker, on 04/17/2008, -1/+16The thing is that they aren't breaking the law.
      • SniperGX1, on 04/17/2008, -0/+16What they care most about is the law.
    • ilikechaitea, on 04/17/2008, -1/+17hmm...good question. I guess an example is entries or bloggers who encorage activites that break copyright law. i.e:
      I KNOW anyone can find info on how to create a hackingtosh on the net. But usually, tutorials like these in layman's terms are always very conservative, scared that they might be breaking a law...like this:

      http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-28784.html

      also, I've been looking for simple steps to downgrade my new PC version of San Andreas from V2 to V1...but all the forums are kinda tight lipped. yeah. they hint, and you can find the info, BUT...

      it'll be nice to have a space where people can chat openly about 'illegal' tech activities.....
    • jillyteeth, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2You're forgetting about the whole "pro-ana" subculture. Their little thinspo sites get axed by service providers, despite being perfectly legal.
    • agentmedia, on 04/17/2008, -1/+14There are plenty of legal sites/blogs that get taken down due to threats by lawyers. I have personally had sites shut down because i was speaking out against a large corporation. They sent threating letters to the hosts and they removed them, one customer is not worth the risk of losing a lot of money in a legal battle to them.
    • Ogopogo, on 04/17/2008, -0/+6There's actually a long list of prohibited ideas, opinions and concepts that are forbidden to Canadians. Section 13.1 of the so-called Canadian Human Rights Act is used to shutdown hundreds of websites and put people through 'struggle-session' tribunals (100% conviction rate) and impose 5-figure fines and lifetime bans against expressing anything similar.

      See: www.ezralevant.com , www.richardwarman.com , www.freemarksteyn.com , www.freedomsite.org

      I applaud Pirate Bay for launching their uncensored blogging service. I hope they can keep it going.
      • Vileputrid, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2Could you just name what these "subjects" are?
    • JohnSteel, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2http://www.blogger.com/content.g "Users may not publish written, image or video content that promotes pedophilia, incest and bestiality. We do not allow content that exists for the primary purpose of monetizing porn content or driving traffic to a monetized pornography site. Users may not publish material that promotes hate toward groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity." Blogger is from what I have seen the most popular blog host on the net. 90% of all blogs that I have seen are hosted on Blogger.

      http://wordpress.com/tos/ "In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited items listed below appear on your blog or get linked to from your blog (things like spam, viruses, or hate content)." Also it says that content can't be "obscene" or "hateful or racially or ethnically objectionable". Wordpress is probably the 2nd most popular blog hosting service.
    • littlegirllover, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2As JohnSteel noted, "users may not publish written, image or video content that promotes pedophilia, incest and bestiality." What's not stated is a clear definition of "promotes." For example, "promotes" is often taken to mean a mere admittance to things that move a person. One can admit being moved by things like pedophilia, incest and bestiality without "promoting" law-breaking activities associated with the same.

      Under pressure from groups like Perverted-Justice, Warriors for Innocence and others to come, who would have all voices, all discussion of controversial sexual subjects entirely silenced and swept under the rug, Livejournal, in May of last year, reversing their previous policy position of free speech, adopted new policies in line with Perverted-Justice and WFI's demands, effectively ending its participation in the realm of free speech about these controversial topics.

      Blogger has long been on board with other extremists, willingly playing host for admitted federal law-breaking groups and individuals like AbsoluteZeroUnited, alt.hackers.malicious and ACME, which advocate the federal crime of computer hacking as a voice-silencing methodology.

      Outside the realm of sexuality is religion and voices in opposition to some extremist views of some religions. More than several blogging services and web hosting companies have caved to demands by extreme minority viewpoints, for example, to take down or refuse to host voices in opposition to their own.

      So yes, far more important things than copyright law are under threat of being forced entirely underground and out of sight of the public eye and ear.
    • grinndaddy, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Don't forget about the kiddie porn.
    • DCJoeDogaswell, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1http://dcjoedog.baywords.com/
      c'mon, I just had to grab it LOL
  • kopimi, on 04/17/2008, -5/+61Lots of people have had their blogs shut down for uncomfortable minds. But you never hear of them - because they're closed down. Isn't that ***** dangerous?
    • zongamin, on 04/17/2008, -7/+1lies
    • iticu, on 04/17/2008, -1/+2Sure they didn't just stop? Which blogs got shut down and what were they preaching about?
    • fleverfla, on 04/17/2008, -0/+0I just can't wait for TPB YouTube alternative. No more takedowns by Google. Although, their big fat legal argument (i.e. how we don't host any copyrighted files) will need a rethink.
  • bakergtr, on 04/17/2008, -31/+4THERE TRYING TO TAKE OVAR THE INTERNETZ!!!!111
  • DexterHarvey, on 04/17/2008, -7/+24http://baywords.com/2008/04/16/baywords-opens/#com ...
    We’re proud to present a new service - baywords.com. Because of the need of freedom of speech and secure hosting facility of the words being said we could not agree to how people behave towards bloggers.
    Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas. We will not do that. Our goal is to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts. As long as you don’t break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it.
    We will update the blogging system all the time to add new features and themes. If you need to contact us, you can do so here http://thepiratebay.org/contact.
    We decided that although the system is quite minimalistic right now, the most important thing was to get it up and running. So stay tuned for updates and please blog your heart out. Your ideas and your thoughts are the most important ones.
    (Upcoming stuff: We will add support for your own domain hopefully. Captcha system will be installed. Stats will be better. Ads will be added, sorry about that but we’ll keep them as usual to a minimum.)

    In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.
    The Pirate Bay is known for defending people’s right to freedom of speech on the Internet, and this is exactly what motivated them to start this new blogging service.

    Brokep, one of the co-founders of the site, told TorrentFreak that the idea to start a blogging service came up when the weblog of one of his friends was taken down from Wordpress recently, for linking to copyrighted material.
    This, of course, goes against the “uncensored web” philosophy of The Pirate Bay team, and they didn’t hesitate to start their own blogging service, Baywords, using Wordpress as their blogging engine.
    On the frontpage of the newly launched service Brokep writes: “Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas. We will not do that. Our goal is to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts. As long as you don’t break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it”.

    Baywords is currently working on expanding the feature list to include support for domain redirects and improved stats. The service is ad-free for now, but Brokep told TorrentFreak that there will be ads blended into the blog design later, to cover the expenses.
    This is not the first time The Pirate Bay has started a service where people can publish whatever they want, without being censored. They already created an image hosting service for this reason, and a YouTube competitor is about to follow soon.
    For people who are considering moving their Wordpress or Blogger account over to Baywords, importing is pretty straightforward and compatible with all the popular blog platforms. Don’t forget to add TorrentFreak to your blogroll!

    http://baywords.com/ Wordpress as their blogging engine
    http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-launch-y ... YouTube competitor is about to follow soon
    http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-launches-un ... free Uncensored Image Hosting
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content moving their Wordpress or Blogger account over to Baywords, importing
    • jimthenglishman, on 04/17/2008, -0/+25i don't think that was necessary. torrentfreak always survives the digg effect.
  • LANjackal, on 04/17/2008, -1/+61This should be pretty useful for bloggers who post links to music releases :)
    • Wilsomatic, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2Hopefully they'll be all over They Hype Machine
  • ct2000, on 04/17/2008, -9/+3this is sweet .. and I snapped up music.baywords.com
    • jonathantneal, on 04/17/2008, -0/+31You've done well, but with great power comes great responsibility. I'm sure you have a chance now to bring some hot attention to Baywords. Do you plan to do something useful with this? You have the opportunity now, so don't waste it, mmk?
    • anagoge, on 04/17/2008, -1/+4...
    • billy23424234, on 04/17/2008, -0/+0congradulations
    • billy23424234, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2ill trade you digg.baywords.com
  • wallryan, on 04/17/2008, -1/+8just like bayimg.com? apparently that is still around....
    • fleverfla, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1I never really understood what bayimg.com was trying to achieve. You weren't allowed to host copyrighted images (i.e. any images that broke federal laws). You could host homemade porn I suppose. I think TPB is great, but sometimes I get the feeling they just put things out there for the sake of it.
    • KIERANMULLEN, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1http://www.imagefap.com/
  • DaGr33k, on 04/17/2008, -10/+1ThePirateBay.com continues to prove itself above all p2p laws.
    • dsmx, on 04/17/2008, -0/+8Actually the pirate bay obeys the p2p laws in sweden.
  • RegalGSX, on 04/17/2008, -12/+2Holy ***** *****!
  • DalamarArgent, on 04/17/2008, -11/+1I am all for PirateBay and their efforts but would they shutdown or block a child pornography blog I wonder? "whatever they want"
    • hollyminkowski, on 04/17/2008, -0/+14I hope they would as it would probably be against Swedish law.
    • iticu, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3See; "As long as you don’t break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it."
    • DCJoeDogaswell, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1CP would break the law in sweden so they would take a CP site down, and I'm glad too
  • thatcrazycommie, on 04/17/2008, -1/+80Man, they really *are* becoming the underground google.
  • rpieszak, on 04/17/2008, -1/+30Imagine the internet 10 years from now, and what it might be if Google and PirateBay weren't around. They both do so much for the masses, it scares me to think how stunted our growth would be without them.
    • itsgotyou, on 04/17/2008, -0/+13Some other free spirit(s) will take up the slack.
    • hmunkey, on 04/17/2008, -7/+1TPB hasn't done anything that other groups haven't. Except bayimg I guess, but people only use that for child porn, so...
    • sloppychris, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3All that success with very little government intervention.
  • holyskeleton, on 04/17/2008, -8/+1they should become the new Google.
  • cavar, on 04/17/2008, -10/+0Able to write anything? Racist stuff, even, for example?
    • Sairgem, on 04/17/2008, -0/+14I would hope so, it's called free speech. Even if I don't agree with the ***** some people spew, everyone should be able to voice their opinions.
      • cavar, on 04/17/2008, -1/+0That was my point. Not free speech if it's just left wing rhetoric. (I'm not racist, by the way.)
      • BlackAdderIII, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1""" Even if I don't agree with the ***** some people spew, everyone should be able to voice their opinions."""

        If I could digg you up a million times for that comment, I would. Well said.
    • InfamousAtheist, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Uncensored means anything, even racist drivel. You really have to ask?
    • Vileputrid, on 04/17/2008, -0/+0I hope so.
  • Proteus1935, on 04/17/2008, -1/+30Quick
    "***** THE RIAA".baywords.com is still available!! Someone WITH talent... please grab it!
    • KnifeOrSpoon, on 04/17/2008, -1/+15zing - I got it =D
      "Congratulations! The blog *****.baywords.com/ is yours."
    • bratterscain, on 04/17/2008, -7/+1Dibs on piratebay.baywords.com. $50 and you can have it.
  • oldcrows40, on 04/17/2008, -4/+2....as i am downloading ***** from the pirate bay.
  • xsquirrel378x, on 04/17/2008, -4/+8anyone else sick of the t-shirt thumbnail in every torrentfreak post?
    • fleverfla, on 04/17/2008, -1/+0I've never really taken much notice, but why not just block it using AdBlock if it's that irritating?
  • SaladCactusKing, on 04/17/2008, -6/+5I just hope that the migration from LiveJournal doesn't turn the place into ThePedoBay.
  • itwasstinky, on 04/17/2008, -0/+4epic domain grab time
  • laserblazer, on 04/17/2008, -1/+1elite.baywords.com for me! get your cool domain early, this is big news! avast ye, namecampers!
  • olbap, on 04/17/2008, -0/+22The Pirate Bay: DEFENDERS OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!!
  • Dorothy1980, on 04/17/2008, -13/+0HOT! Deathbed repentance Britney Spears!!!

    Listen to the new Deathbed repentance Britney Spears

    http://bsrepentance.bravehost.com/
  • exomni, on 04/17/2008, -9/+2Now I finally get to open up my hardcore toddler porn ring without Blogger shutting it down!
  • samard2002, on 04/17/2008, -10/+9Pirate Bay is brilliant. They are totally selling out the "everything should be free" crowd, who praise them for doing it. Think Baywords will have ads just like Pirate Bay does? I bet it does. If these guys are so into free information, they should open their financial books for everyone to see. In my opinion they are making enormous amounts of money off artists' work -- which is the exact thing they profess to fight. This move to new business lines just cements my opinion that they're some of the most savvy businessmen on the internet. What's next? A social networking site? MyBay.com?
    • renegadeafk, on 04/17/2008, -1/+14They need money, I imagine they have massive bandwidth costs.
      • samard2002, on 04/17/2008, -6/+2If they opened their financial books, you wouldn't need to "imagine" anything. You would see exactly what they pay out and exactly what they make take in.

        And how can you possibly care what their bandwidth costs if you don't give a ***** what it costs the artists to make the content?
        • renegadeafk, on 04/17/2008, -1/+2I probably wouldn't have even known about half the artists I listen to or bought half the cd's I have bought if it wasn't for TPB.
        • cliffski, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1agreed 100%. they are big time criminals, the digg kiddies are too dense to see them for what they are.
    • zapperdude60, on 04/17/2008, -1/+5adblock, my friend
    • cliffski, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1excellent post, sell said. they are just criminals exploiting the low intelligence of the average pro-filesharing kiddie.
  • imbob, on 04/17/2008, -8/+3an other law suite in 5 4 3 2...............
  • Jackal2099, on 04/17/2008, -6/+7Dissent. Dissent. Dissent. Otherwise the whole American idea is meaningless.
    - Phil Donahue
    (Jackal2099)
  • jer2eydevil88, on 04/17/2008, -2/+11I would digg this up 50 times at least if I could.
  • iPissExcellence, on 04/17/2008, -16/+5BayWord - now change B to G, and W to L.

    scary
  • D3koy, on 04/17/2008, -4/+3I swear to God, if anyone but aXXo takes aXXo.baywords.com I will call the cops...and then kinda wait around, seeing as they can't do anything other
  • NorthStateGonzo, on 04/17/2008, -8/+2400 Fellow Pirates Strong~ Need an Add Just Let Us Know ;-) http://www.myspace.com/pirat3bay
  • Wilsomatic, on 04/17/2008, -0/+5So will ThePirateBayMaps.com have pictures of sea monsters and stuff?
  • zapperdude60, on 04/17/2008, -1/+4someone tell maddox
    • noseeme, on 04/17/2008, -1/+5He hosts his own blog. The only thing that could stop Maddox is Maddox. Or a subpoena.
  • agentmedia, on 04/17/2008, -4/+2I just signed up for this, the admin panel looks like a wordpress clone. Glad to see this service, too many people are getting silenced by hosting companies too afraid to stand up for the little guy.
  • scy1192, on 04/17/2008, -1/+2will they shut down spam blogs, too?
  • rwallen, on 04/17/2008, -6/+1I don't really see the point to this. I visit the blogs I do because of their interesting content which is usually in the form of well thought out articles. I don't visit blogs to look at spam lists of torrents and child porn to download. What Wordpress did they had to because they are a company who doesn't want to get sued for breaking the law. When was the last time you went to a blog to find a torrent file anyway? There are many ways to find torrents, it would be easier to just google it than to search around on a network of blogs.
    • DCJoeDogaswell, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1A torrent blog lets you find quality stuff you may have never even thought about looking at because it wasn't mainstream enough or whatever.
  • xbuzz, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3Arrgggg got my 3.14159265 rate blog!
  • billy23424234, on 04/17/2008, -5/+0how do i put ads on my blog? like google ad sense is it possible?
  • noseeme, on 04/17/2008, -2/+2More people need to learn about Freenet. Blogs are common on Freenet, where they are called "flogs". :)
    www.freenetproject.org
  • Heywoodj, on 04/17/2008, -1/+1Pirate-chan? FTW!
    Let the party begin.
  • petethepanda, on 04/17/2008, -4/+1Very much not a fan of TPB and theft, but this is cool.
  • digitallysick, on 04/17/2008, -2/+1someone should register e.baywords.com like ebay, link farm maybe
  • digitalhippie, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3I'm still waiting for their YouTube competitor that they said they were going to release; The Video Bay.
  • blackeyedbrian, on 04/17/2008, -2/+0

    http://mpaa.baywords.com/ is taken already =(
    • blackeyedbrian, on 04/17/2008, -0/+0hey cool, i tried again and got it!
  • brstilson, on 04/17/2008, -3/+1I started one

    http://pundidiot.baywords.com

    Eh, it's better than Mindsay.
  • GuinnessGoblin, on 04/17/2008, -0/+4i smell the foul stench of the ever-present pedo bear
  • Automatic, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2dugg for Wordpress
  • KeX42, on 04/17/2008, -0/+0We'll see where it goes, I joined up, just cause I want to see what the Pirate Bay does with it
  • NeedzABetterSN, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1I didn't get my e-mail.
    http://gore.baywords.com shall be mine!
  • HeavyWave, on 04/17/2008, -8/+51. Say that you are against censorship and obey all ***** laws (new laws are introduced everyday)
    2. Install multi wordpress (which a kid can do).
    3. ???
    4. Profit

    This is just overboard, Pirate Bay is a commercial website, just like Google, they don't really care. Get over it.
    • rwallen, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3I don't know why you are getting burried you are right. TPB is just playing off this gimmick a little too much and all the 11 year old digg kids buy into the whole thing.
    • cliffski, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1well said. TPB is a criminal organisation, based in sweden who sue the whole free-speech ***** as a legal smokescreen. the minute its clear they are getting prison sentences you wont see them for dust,
  • NathanCH, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1I got some pretty good domains already.
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