Expected to classify the BitTorrent tracker site as a child pornography site next week in an update to its blocklist that most Swedish ISPs voluntarily respect.In a heads up from Brokep over at the Pirate Bay, it seems that Swedish Police will add the Pirate Bay to a list of child porn sites that Swedish ISPs voluntarily block customers from visiting. Swedish Police have apparently stated that “...it’s not decided that we’ll put The Pirate Bay in the list - if the content is still there next week we’ll put them there,' but considering they never even took the time to contact the Pirate Bay in the first place to verify the allegations its seems that the outcome of the case has been preordained. In a blog posting Brokep writes: If the police would find anything wrong - shouldn’t they first contact us, then bring us in for questioning regarding the content, ask for our help or bring us to court for our wrongdoings?By not acting this way it’s very clear what this is all about. It’s all about quieting a voice that is really uncomfortable for them since they don’t have any legal standpoint in doing it. It’s sabotage, it’s abuse of power given to them.It will forever make our site associated with something as disgusting as child porn. They are labelling us - without being even tried for it in a legal system, remember - as having something to do with child porn!So who’s abusing children? It’s the police, for using the same filtering system as to protect them, to gain from it themselves. For them, it’s good that children get abused, so they can shut down sites they don’t like. Yes, it sounds sick, but this is the way it has become.I hope that the Swedish ISPs will take action against this and stop using the childporn filter! And that’s a bad thing because it could have some good effects, but they decided to go a bit too far with their filtering.It's no secret that baseless child porn rumors have been swirling around the Pirate Bay for sometime, with many, including myself, noticing the hands of a larger effort at work to tarnish their reputation and to make an association for which there is no real basis in fact. In a response to the development Rick Falkvinge, Swedish Pirate Party leader blasts the blatant abuse of the voluntary child-pornography site blocking compliance system, writing that "This is a devastatingly ignorant abuse of the trust relationship between the Internet world and the Police that was created in order to stop child pornography." He continued: It also also undermines the legitimacy of the child porn filter. This filter is not intended for subjective use by government officials to close down undesirable sites which do not break any laws.Once given the means to shut down unwanted sites, the Police uses the filter to shut down the Pirate Bay after the failed attempt last year. And just like last year, through abuse of procedureBrokep also points out the insanity of the charges being leveled, noting that "TPB is the most visible place there is. People that distribute stuff like this put it on darknets and I would think they know that the risk of getting caught putting stuff on a public system like The Pirate Bay is really huge. It’s sexual suicide!" What Brokep has to say makes complete sense in my opinion and it stuns me that the Swedish Police could have been convinced otherwise. These monsters who trade child porn do so not in the public realm where they could so easily be caught. Of all the places to exchange this sort of trash I'm almost positive the WORLD"S LARGEST BITTORRENT TRACKER SITE, with tens of millions of prying eyes on it at any given moment would be the last place they would choose. Now I'm no detective but, I can tell when something's fishy. Let's just hope the Swedish Police give the Pirate Bay a chance to prove their case and we don't see the image below next week.
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Everybody complained in the comments and nobody downloaded them. The files were nuked in no time anyway.
Yet, the files were being uploaded by different people, same files, same vague description same story. Nuked in no time.
This is suspicious, could these files have been uploaded by some goverment person in order to have the rights to shut pyratebay down eventually ? We all remember what happened last time they tryied to resize the server don't we ? This time they might have found a way ........
Sorry for my poor English
Anyways who needs piratebay? There is demonoid, which is both pornography free and better.
It's a real shame that the pirate bay owners put fight against child porn in the same bag as fight against copyright in order to make it look okay! Shame shame shame...
PirateBay's stance is they don't censor because of freedom of speech or something, so I can understand them standing by their choice. But I think its very dumb to harbour these files and their seeders because the majority of torrent users do not see paedophiles and piracy as being one in the same cause ..and rightly so.
Pirate Bay's best interests should be to remove those questionable content - some are easy to find but others are coyly written and mis-labelled. I was trying to download an e-book and then I read the description and that's how I realized the section was over-run by this sort of stuff. THat page changes, so I can't gauge what's on it every second - but if you scourge about for a few minutes you'll find something.
I'll say more when my head clears of beer :)
Which seems rather strange....because if they hosted anything to do with child porn, they should have been in handcuffs by now! As bad as the poilce want that site closed...you would think that this would be reason enough to shut them down. If I were an admin at TPB....I would find out just what if any child porn is on there and punish the uploaders by banning them forever and take steps to make sure no child porn is on there and would not be in the future!
Since it's a huge site , you can't expect them to verify the content constantly .
It's quite strange , because i never noticed cp there , but since a few weeks it really became a problem . It's like someone is attacking the site with immoral content . From what i can see though : the reported onces get removed .
Fom what i can tell , they are working on a solution .
But the example you gave is not valid at all, because it was put in major publications...I seriously doubt that a court would shut them down for content that was circulated on major newspapers!
And I do not think that is what the police are talking about either.
So you are really reaching with the example you just gave!
And I am not "jumping" at any "conclusion" ...I SAID if it involves children at all in any nude scene(I SHOULD have said sexual acts or sexual content... because people are so picky) then I would say it is child porn.
http://www.thelocal.se/7818/
"any content that has childern posing in the nude or topless for sex"
that statement makes no sense
who is to decide what proper nudes are? you seem to feel any nude froms under the age of 18 or 21 shouldn't be see in any form for any reason
pretty freakin' silly man
"The Pirate Bay WILL NOT Be Shutdown After All"
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8891/The+Pirate+Bay+WILL+NOT+Be+Shutdown+After+All