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The Pirate Bay claims to end all contact with Old Media

Due to pigfuckery performed by people representing Old Media, TPB claims to no longer respond to any press inquiries.

Anything even remotely connected to technology has never been represented correctly or fairly by journalists (whom we all know are clueless by definition), but the last straw for TPB’s staff was apparently claims made by a media outlet yesterday according to which TPB had “published pictures of dead children” (Google translation).

The pictures in question are part of autopsy reports related to a high profile murder case made public by the prosecutor and are, obviously for anyone familiar with Bittorrent, uploaded by some user of TPB. As TPB isn’t in the business of censoring the Internet, they have refused to remove anything except child porn from the service, which in this case lead to death threats being aimed towards the staff.

Swedish pedestrian signs carry message from God

“Anyone living in Sweden or the Nordic countries will almost certainly have seen the image of a hand pointing upwards to encourage pedestrians to press the button before crossing the road. Prisma Teknik AB, the Swedish company behind the pedestrian signals, has now admitted that the hand is meant as a hidden symbol for God. [...] ‘We want to show that there is only one way to reach God and that is up and through Jesus”, CEO Jan Lund told The Local.’”

See also: Prisma Teknik AB

Sweden: Drunken elk meets sorry end after toddler attack

“Three-year-old Nova was playing in her backyard sandbox when a young elk calf attacked and bit her.”

Hee hee.

The new Swedish wiretapping law is only the beginning. The same country’s administration now wants the police to confiscate/get access to a medical database of DNA samples of all citizens born during the last 33 years.

From the the blog of Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party:
http://english.rickfalkvinge.se/2008/06/21/after-wiretapping-a-national-dna-register/

“…the administration is now preparing a bill to confiscate the world’s largest scientific DNA register for the police.

Since 1975, every newborn infant in Sweden has had their blood sampled and stored in a huge registry, exclusively for medical research purposes, and particularly for phenylketonuresis (PKU) — hence, the register is called the PKU register. This register is something of a national treasure for medical scientific research. However, by its nature, it is also a DNA register.”

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“The administration just initiated the drafting of a bill to have this entire register confiscated by the police.”

Pigfuckers. Pigfuckers. Pigfuckers.