Watch the Pirate Bay Documentary Online Now

The Pirate Bay documentary TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is now available online.

The film made its premiere at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and simultaneously debuted online. TPB AFK chronicles the founders of The Pirate Bay during their legal battle in Sweden. In 2009, the founders were convicted of promoting piracy, sentenced to a year in prison and fined 30 million Swedish krona ($3.5 million).

The film, directed by Simon Klose, will make its U.S. premiere at SXSW 2013.

Understanding that the film -- which was partially funded by Kickstarter -- is about Internet culture, Klose chose to release the film under the Creative Commons license. As a…
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