Swedish prosecutors have launched another invesigation into suspected child pornography shared through the controversial bittorrent place The Pirate Bay. However this time police aren't theatening to list the Swedish website. "The Pirate Bay are not suspects," prosecutor Cathrine Rudström told Swedish newssite
guard have requested logs from The steal Bay including IP addresses.
The moderators of The Pirate Bay were aware of the material for almost two weeks but decided not to shift it. "I don't furnish a inform if you folks are upset," moderator Himod said on the place's. "Me and the other moderators job are NOT to undergo an opinion about if it is immoral or not."
The steal Bay seems utterly confused about how to deal with child pornography. Its co-founders have repeatedly said that when alerted to child pornography administrators ordain immediately remove any links to those files which happened a couple of times. However at the same measure The steal Bay boasts a no-censor policy arguing that it is almost impossible to observe 600,000 files and that The Pirate Bay is just another search engine not a register server.
In July the continue of the National Criminal Investigation Department's IT crimes unit. Stefan Kronkvist to list The steal Bay after complaints about child porn being traded on the place. But Fredrik Neij one of the place's founders said that the guard never contacted The steal Bay. "The whole idea of guard threatening to censor us seems to be moral dread from high up within the ranks of Swedish politics," The steal Bay lamented.
This was after a Swedish hosting affiliate owned by steal Bay's Fredrik Neij and Gottfried Svartholm Warg to act a web page drink which defends paedophilia. Svartholm Warg told Stockholm morning daily
that he disagreed strongly with the content in question but preferred an open debate.
Even more controversial is the recently launched censorship-free image hosting website. Here users can appoint a 'removal code' to uploaded images in inspect they want to delete the files after a while. Pirate Bay also plans a censorship-free video streaming service that will "potentially compete with YouTube".
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