BayWords: Pirate Bay's blogging service

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BayWords: Pirate Bay's blogging service

by Romeo Wahed Apr 17th 2008

It looks like torrents isn't the only business the Pirate Bay is concerning itself with. First there was image hosting and now there's blogging. BayWords is the site's foray into the world of blogging services, aiming to provide a service that does not want to restrict "uncomfortable thoughts and ideas" and let people say and link to what they want (as long as it complies with Swedish law).

Apparently one of the Pirate Bay captains, Brokep, had a friend who's blog was shut down by linking to copyrighted material. This inspired him to offer this alternative, which runs on a customized version of a multi user install of Wordpress. The site plans to continue adding features, updates, and themes, and encourages users to "blog your heart out."

If you've been looking for a place to take your blog, BayWords might offer a nice home, as long as you don't mind having "myname.baywords.com" as your address. Or maybe you just want to be able to tell people that your blog is hosted by Swedish pirates. Or something like that. Unfortunately, it does look like ads will be implemented eventually to cover expenses, but information on bandwidth or other stats are not available at this point.

[via TorrentFreak]

Tags: baywords, blog, blogging, pirate bay, PirateBay

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Pepe Gonzales said 3:07PM on 4-17-2008

...had a friend whose blog was shut down...

jim insurance said 7:26PM on 4-23-2008

I always wanted to add a review blog to my website http://www.buytravelinsurance.me.uk but I never really got my head around how to setup this wordpress thing, maybe this would be more suited to my needs. Thanks for bringing this to my attention

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