TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

By 2008, three of the world’s most wanted, hated and admired men were an unlikely trio of Swedish 20-something geeks: Gottfried Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sundo. Founders of the internet’s most powerful file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay, they face the legal might of the state, Hollywood and the White House. In a criminal-turnedpolitical trial, Gottfried, Fredrik and Peter remain hilariously unrepentant defendants, highly intelligent young men in a questionable battle, the politics of which they themselves can’t even agree upon. But in this perilous Away From Keyboard (AFK) world, how will the pirates cope as they semireluctantly represent their generation and the voice of the free internet? Part Kafka, part slacker comedy, TPB AFK is an impressive account of one of the greatest courtroom dramas of the century thus far. Because, love ‘em or hate ‘em, these buccaneer frontiersmen stand for unfettered, galloping, unstoppable change.