Evidentally, very little is happening in Sweden right now. This is indicated by an attack against the Bureau of Piracy that turned out to become quite a funny story – only the laugh is on the attacker.
Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet ran a story about Piratshoppen, the website that sells Piratbyrån and the Pirate Bay related material such as T-shirts, stickers and so on. The article claimed that Piratshoppen sold material of a lesser moral standard. They claimed that via the shop, one could purchase T-shirts with captions such as, ‘All women desire anal sex’, and ‘Feminism – for those who are fet, ugly and jealous’. The material sold was labaled ‘sexist’, which I can agree is a rather accurate term for the captions in the example.
But Piratbyrån doesn’t sell their T-shirts directly. They hire a company called Peer99 to provide this service. They also have other customers, and all customers, including Piratbyrån, have their own sections in the website. The reporter had find the offensive T-shirts under sections belonging to other customers.
To make matters worse, Piratbyråns web server had been in police custody for almost two months when the article was published about 22 hours ago. Instead it had been replaced by a temporary newssite in the form of a blog, which hadn’t even linked to Piratshoppen. In the article, the reporter claims that Piratbyrån hasn’t become rich by advertisements, ‘as we last month uncovered that the Pirate Bay did’, but from the Piratshoppen. But as a matter of fact The Pirate Bay linked to Piratshoppen, and Piratbyrån did, in fact not, untill very recently.
ha ha….? wait whats funny about this?