[IP] Swedish Police to censorware "Pirate Bay" as child porn site?

Steve Schear s.schear at comcast.net
Mon Jul 23 11:53:58 PDT 2007


At 10:03 AM 7/7/2007, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf at sethf.com>
>Date: July 6, 2007 11:58:20 PM EDT
>To: David Farber <dave at farber.net>, ip at v2.listbox.com
>Subject: Swedish Police to censorware "Pirate Bay" as child porn site?
>
>[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]

If the site referenced is http://www.thepiratebay.org then it is back on-line.

Steve 





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