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We just built a popcorn remote control to handle the links we’re going to embed into TPB AFK. Yep, you’re gonna get curated links related to the film on your phone while watching it from your sofa.

Building this …

The Supreme Court decided not to grant the Pirate Bay founders an appeal leave, which means that the previous verdict of jail sentences and $6.8 million in damages will stand.

It also means that we can start planning the release …

I have a bipolar relationship to html5 and video.

As a curious film consumer I love the way embedding links into online video can broaden and contextualize – not just documentary storytelling – but all kinds of storytelling. As a …

Sometimes you shoot a dialogue and you think you’re shooting a joke. Then the footage runs off and becomes reality. The news that The Missionary Church of Kopimism is a registered church of filesharers reached me all the way …

You know the feeling when you support a crowdfunding campaign out of the blue just because it sounds decent and then the flick you backed turns out to be mindbending?

I didn’t until now.

How to Start a Revolution is …

I first met net activist Christopher Kullenberg, filming a TPB AFK scene when he was recording music in the Pirate Bureau’s bus during the Pirate Bay trial in 2009. Last week he was named ‘the Swede of the year’ …

We are really stoked to show you our first rough demo of TPB AFK: The Augumentary (using html5 and popcornjs). By embedding links into the documentary the audience can check facts for themselves, connect with people in the film …

Sure. I guess you don’t put your phone on the floor when you crash on a night train. Even if it’s 10 cm from your pillow. Naturally, you go to bed with your gadget. Still, fat dude on bunk …

With Wikileaks latest release there are at least 12 cables mentioning The Pirate Bay.

This blog turns 1 today, happy b-day!

To celebrate that, I’m really glad to announce that Henrik Moltke will be helping me out with the project before K starts editing in November. Among a bunch of other inspiring projects Henrik …

After logging and editing for the past 7 months it’s great to shoot some scenes again. It’s time for local hackerspace Forsken’s hacknite and a trip to Chaos Comunication Camp in Berlin.

I’m super proud to announce that TPB AFK will be edited by Per K Kirkegaard. He last edited the monstrous masterpiece Armadillo about Danish troops on their first mission in Afghanistan. I’m certain he’ll do just as well on …

Apparently even the main characters in my film think I post too few clips. Brokep’s doing his own Making Of in Laos over here. Can someone shut me up?

The other week TPB AFK was selected to pitch at Hot Docs Forum in Toronto – ‘North America’s essential market for the international documentary community’. It’s great news! (Swedish article). It’s also cool to see that Hot Docs and …

In the same building. In the same movie. Then TPB, Wikileaks & 4chan. Now Flattr, Openleaks & Canvas.

Last week the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) decided to grant me SEK 200 000 (roughly $30 000) for finishing TPB AFK. Since I’m in the middle of setting up the editing schedule in Denmark the money comes as …

But still. 5 bucks later TPB AFK is being edited on an organically farmed teak laptop.

Read what the Stockholm Embassy is saying about TPB in last weeks Wikileak’s cable here.

Check out TPB AFK and fellow crowdfunded Creative Commons licensed projects here!

I’m starting Phnom Penh’s first rooftop youtube cinema instead of doing that crappy docu. Thank’s for the dough Kickstarter.

Tomorrow marks the first day in the year of the metal rabbit. I’m celebrating the Chinese new year’s on the roof terrace of TPB AFK’s official Phnom Penh Branch.

My original plan was to start editing TPB AFK with a …

In some bizarre way it feels lame to get a prize for an unfinished film project, but I’m going to be honest here: I’m extremely proud! Thank’s again backers, the kickstarter academy and mom for helping me realize …

The verdict that was announced last month reached two of the TPB founders through a shaky internet connection in a sleepy South East Asian suburb. They had just stepped off a karaoke session on a Mekong riverboat. Nobody was …

Today was frantic!

I was in a panel discussion at Copenhagen’s film festival CPHDOX discussing crowdfunding with Yancey Strickler and the audience.

It was great to finally meet my first backer Yancey. In a minute he went from being some …

The last day of the trial had a great surprise for me. It turned out that the filmed interrogations from last year’s District Court hearings can be obtained by the people being questioned. Guess who’s suddenly sitting on hours …

Under a huge oil canvas of King Karl the 11th the Pirate Bay hearings in Svea Court of Appeal closed last Friday. After a couple of animated concluding speeches from the pirate’s lawyers the judges announced that the verdict …

A week ago we successfully finished our crowd funding campaign at kickstarter. We raised 51424 USD from 1737 backers. Yes, that’s about 29 dollars per backer.

During our one month adventure we had over 400 000 unique visitors from more …

Check out our last clip during our kickstarter campaign.

The second clip:

Here’s the first out of three TPB AFK clips we’ll be releasing this September.

Also we’ve posted the second episode of A Swedish Perspective here.

Ogg versions here (thanks Osama!)