The Swedish Police Attempt To Stymie The Pirate Bay, Again
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The Pirate Bay again is playing a cat and mouse game with the Swedish Police. This time instead of trying to shutdown the site based on copyrighted content, they are labeling the site as a distributor of child pornography.
This Friday, it became known that the Swedish Police Board will shut down The Pirate Bay, the popular file sharing site, by classifying it as a child pornography site in the blocklist that Swedish Internet Providers respect. Some time next week, an update to the blacklist will include The Pirate Bay.
This means that anyone from Sweden visiting the well-known file sharing site The Pirate Bay will be greeted by a block page from the Police Board saying they’re not allowed to visit child pornography sites.
Although this doesn’t seem to be a world wide block but rather the filter is a voluntary system that the Swedish ISPs agree to use. They redirect DNS entries they find within this list to a page where it gives you information about why it’s blocked.
Is The Pirate Bay at the point where it is too large to be stopped.
Would switching to OpenDNS resolve that issue?
Well, everyone knows that this isn’t the Sweedish government’s doing. It’s just the US using it behemoth strength to bully other countries into giving up sovereignty to US corporations. Last time they tried to do something, it took 3 days to bring back the Pirate Bay, and that was after the police stole their servers and jailed their admins.
On May 29th this year there the American Chamber of Commerce held a hearing in Stockholm with the title “Sweden – a safe haven for pirates?”. A guy I know attended the hearing.
At the hearing a representative from the danish anti pirate group was one of the speakers. He told about the great success they had had in Denmark getting allofmp3.com blocked with the danish child pornography filter. He also advocated child pornography as the way to fight piracy, as the politicians understand child pornography better than copyright.
Coincidence? My guess is that somebody attending this hearing got “inspired” by this. Probably some anti piracy agency uploaded a torrent with child pornography disguised as something uninteresting (so nobody would look at it and report it to TPB, who immediately remove such torrents if they find out) and then reported them to the police.
The swedish police probably knows that this isn’t really about child pornography. In Sweden distribution of child pornography is a very serious offence. So the police would normally investigate and prosecute instead of silently putting TPB on a block list that is only updated a few times each month and normally is used for foreign child pornography sites only.
crap… where will I get my kiddie porn now?!
… meh I’m sure they’ll find a loop hole and in a matter of a few days will be up and running again (or so I hope).
Would this mean they have to block the national tv station website too because people have posted underage pics on that site too?
We have the same filter thing in Norway, and I hate everytime it blocks Flickr or any major web-hosting site because of one offending member. (They tend to block geocities.com when geocities.com/member3 is offending) – crappy filters….
My guess is this is a look at things to come. Any site the gov don’t wont people to read will start getting block.
Just one more way for the government to keep people in the dark and feed then bull crap like mushrooms.
Soon it will come to the point were any thing they don’t wont you to read will be blocked or burned. And any one how don’t fallow there rules will be labeled a terrorist.
It really is a sad state of affairs.
@MOREPOWERR
hmmmm I can’t recall anytime in history something like that happened *cough* nazi’s *cough* china *cought* soviet russia *cough*
sorry had something in my throat.