The Pirate Bay plans to buy Sealand

Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy the 550 square metre principality of Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea that has been designated a 'micronation'. The group has set up a campaign to raise money to buy the self-declared...

Pirate Island: The Pirate Bay Seeks to Buy Sealand

I found this posting through boingboing.net: you, too, can be  a citizen of an oil-drilling platform! Think "Treasure Island" meets "Breaking the Waves"."CFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are...

For sale - world's smallest country

"A FORMER World War II fort in the North Sea, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale. The tiny Principality of Sealand, which began life as Roughs Tower in 1941, is a 550 sq m steel platform perched on two...