Drew Wilson
April 19th, 2009, 03:33 PM
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The server from the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay confiscated in a police raid last year went on display Thursday at the National Museum of Science and Technology, it said.
"This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items," curator Nils Olander told AFP.
"And it is a part of our mission as a museum not to avoid complicated questions," he said.
The museum bought the server, a metallic grey box measuring about 20 centimetres (eight inches) wide, for 2,000 kronor (180 euros, 240 dollars) from a member of the Bureau of Piracy, a Swedish group seeking the decriminalisation of filesharing, Olander said.
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"This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items," curator Nils Olander told AFP.
"And it is a part of our mission as a museum not to avoid complicated questions," he said.
The museum bought the server, a metallic grey box measuring about 20 centimetres (eight inches) wide, for 2,000 kronor (180 euros, 240 dollars) from a member of the Bureau of Piracy, a Swedish group seeking the decriminalisation of filesharing, Olander said.
More... (http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090416/tc_afp/swedenpiracyinternetcultureoffbeat)