Pirate Bay offers its home page to promote indie artists
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Pirate Bay is launching Promo Bay, a way for indie artists to promote their material on Pirate Bay’s home page in up to three countries.
On a day when so much of the Internet is participating in a debate about the proposed U.S. SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy legislation, Sweden’s torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay—one of the Internet’s most infamous tools for setting hands on pirated copyrighted materials—has announced a new initiative called The Promo Bay. The Promo Bay invites independent artists—whether musicians, videographers, painters, cartoonists, comedians, or whatever—to submit their work for free promotion on The Pirate Bay’s home page. If the Pirate Bay thinks the material is neat, it will be queued up for promotion on Pirate Bay’s home page in up to three countries.
“We sometimes replace our front page logo with others,” the Pirate Bay wrote, explaining the deal. “Sometimes we link to important political issues like Internet censorship and sometimes it’s to some cool indie musicians we like. We would now like to improve this feature.”