Description
“The pirates. The history of The Pirate Bay, the Pirate Party and the Piratbyrån" was one of 2009's most talked about non-fiction books. Now it comes in paperback with two completely newly written chapters about the Pirate Party's success in the EU elections and about the events surrounding The Pirate Bay trial.
"The Pirates" is the story of the pirate movement that attracted worldwide attention. About its successes, setbacks and the journey all the way to the EU Parliament. Anders Rydell and Sam Sundberg's penetrating reportage is based on interviews with pirates, prosecutors, anti-piracy agency people and international experts, and tells the story of how it all once began, in the birth of Hollywood.
Author Anders Rydell about the new chapters:
"In the first edition, we set the point where the trial against The Pirate Bay started. Since so much has happened since then, we felt it was necessary to write a couple of new chapters. It has never written so much about the pirate movement in Sweden and internationally as in the spring of 2009. CNN topped its news about the EU elections with the Pirate Party's success in June. An important change described in the new chapters is the shift of the piracy movement, from talking about file sharing to talking more and more about privacy. You can say that The Pirate Bay's failure and the Pirate Party's in many ways improbable victory in the EU elections during the summer were the clear breaking point."
The authors:
Anders Rydell (born 1982) is editor-in-chief of the newspaper Konstnären and has previously published the book "Byt Namn! - and other ways to succeed as a journalist" and most recently "Zero zero: the decade that changed the world".
Sam Sundberg (born 1974) is a freelance journalist and sports editor at Svenska Dagbladet. His texts have appeared in magazines such as Filter, Bon and RUM.
Press voices about the book The Pirates:
»It's like reading a rambling detective story. Anders Rydell's and Sam Sundberg's reportage book 'The Pirates' is a page-turner, a skilfully but restrained dramatized documentary about a phenomenon that will forever change the view of intellectual work and how it should be paid. [...] Anders Rydell and Sam Sundberg have actually written a book with classic potential.« Andreas Ekström, Sydsvenska Dagbladet
»Exciting as a detective story, a lesson in modern technology and mandatory reading for all the members of parliament who last year writhed in moral anguish over FRA and Ipred.« Eva Franchell, Aftonbladet
»A fantastic book. So clean, sober and clear. And therefore incredibly powerful. It is already part of the writing of history.« Sigge Eklund