«Prima sono venuti ad arrestare i comunisti, ma io non ho protestato perche' non ero comunista, poi sono venuti ad arrestare i sindacalisti, ma io non ho protestato perche' non ero sindacalista, poi sono venuti ad arrestare gli ebrei, ma io non ho protestato perche' non ero ebreo. Poi sono venuti ad arrestare me, ma non c'era più nessuno che potesse protestare».

Parole pronunciate dal pastore protestante tedesco Neumuller nel 1942.

«We're quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.

This time it's Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way - so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.»