[Can any IP'ers who read Swedish check out the comments in the post thread, and indicate whether their story is credible or not? The abuse of ISP censorware blacklists for "mission creep" is an obvious slippery slope. But anything coming from a site which calls itself "Pirate Bay" needs to be treated with some skepticism. One might cynically conjecture about a tactic of releasing an alert on Friday afternoon, knowing officials won't be around to deny it until Monday morning, and by that time the Pirate Bay version will be echoing all over the Net] http://www.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/press_release_swedish_police_shuts_down_p... "PRESS RELEASE: Swedish Police Shuts Down Pirate Bay - Again" Inskrivet av Nyhetsgruppen 6 juli, 2007 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." -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer http://sethf.com Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/ Interview: http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE