29/02/2012 - In TPB AFK, Swedish director Simon Klose tells the story of Gotfrid Swartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij – the founders of Pirate Bay

The case is still on - earlier this month (February 1) the Supreme Court of Sweden refused to hear another appeal - Gotfrid Swartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij (and investor Carl Lundström) will face their verdicts of two-ten months in prison and €5.2 million fines for copyright infringement.

And while Pirate Bay most recently announced (February 20 on Facebook) that after February 29 it will no longer carry torrent files, but magnet links, Swedish director Simon Klose (pictured) is preparing TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard) – the personal stories of the three Swedes who invented ”the weapon of mass distribution”.

”Just how did hacker Warg, internet activist Sunde and beer aficionado Neij cause the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions?” asked Klose, who yesterday (February 28) received €0.2 million support from the Swedish Film Institute for Martin Persson’s Nonami documentary production.

Operating since 2003 – named the galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site - The Pirate Bay still ranks as the the world’s 102nd most visited website, with more than four million files and 5.5 million registered users. It was raided by Swedish police on May 31, 2006; the trial against the men behind it started on February 16, 2009.

The Swedish Film Institute has chipped in minor shares for another two documentaries, Swedish director Sara Broos’s For You Naked, a personal portrait of artist Lars Ledin and ”how to fall in love with a broken heart after many years of alcohol abuse”, which Broos will produce for Alma Films. Also, Norwegian director Kari Anne Moe will be filming Bravehearts, about the generation that followed the Utøya 2011 massacre.